104 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
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petiole, the stzpe or peduncle of the Erle flowers’ 6 gating pos 
eral inches before reaching the earth. (This plant Howie's ‘belongs 8 
a “are of the aod lini included in our synopsis, and is placed 
ee — of tonren ate 
oe “Ste m procumbent; leaflets obovate,—the com- 
mon tees not anid into a tendril. 
SUBTERRANEAN Aracuis. Ground-nut. Pea-nut. 
Fr. L’Arachide. Germ. Die Erd-nuss. Span. Mani. 
Root annual. Stem 9-18 inches long, prostrate or erect, branching, pilose. Lea 
inch to on pass and a half long, subsessile, eves mucronate at wie” entire at bor 
dered by a pilose nerve; common petioles 1-2 inches long, chann elled above, pilose 
Sterile ,lor 2-5 or’ 7,in the upper ails: on long slender pedicels—t she corolla 
_ orange- “yellow. 
. aati Native of South America. FT. July —September. Fr. September - October. 
me fa leaeinnont ‘Arachis hypogeea), exhibitin the manner in which the ovaries, 
: oe bury tlomaelves inthe eat where tity riper 
