36 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



11. A. flexuo'SUS, Dougl. Stem 1-2 feet high, ascending, 

 grayish-pubescent. Leaflets numerous, narrow. Flowers 

 white or purplish, small, in loose racemes. Pod very finely 

 pubescent, not furrowed. 



.»-4-.»- Pod exserted on its stalk, 



12. A. bisulea'tus, Gray. Stem stout, a foot or more 

 high, with short rigid pubescence. Leaflets numerous. 

 Flowers violet, in dense spike-like racemes. Pod straight, 

 narrowly oblong, tlie furrow of the ventral surface divided 

 lengthwise into two by the prelecting suture. 



13. A. multiflo'PUS, Gray. Stem slender, somewhat 

 glabrous. Leaflets 13-21, rather narrow. Flowers yellowish- 

 white, tinged with purple, in loosely few-flowered racemes, the 

 peduncles not exceeding the leaves. Stipules mostly connate. 

 Pod 7-20-seeded, reflexed, 



14. A. abOFlg'inum, Rich. Stems slender, rigid, clus- 

 tered, hoary, pubescent or somewhat villous. Leaflets 7-13. 

 Flowers white or bluish, the keel violet, in short spike-like 

 racemes. Pod with a straight dorsal edge {not furrowed), 

 and a rounded ventral edge. 



B. Leaves apparently palmate, mostly of S leaflets. 

 16. A. tPiphyl'lus, Pursh. A lov stemless glossy-silky 

 perennial, with crowded long-petioled leaves, mostly having 

 S lanceolate leaflets, and whitish crowded sessile flowers. Pod 

 conical-ovate, villous. 



8. OXTTROPIS, DC. 



* Leaves simply pinnate. 



1. 0. eampes'tris, DC, var. eseru'lea, Koch. Flowers 

 white or yellowish, often tinged with purple or violet, in 

 short spikes on naked scapes. Pods ovate or oblong, of a 

 thin or papery texture. Leaves pinnate, of many leaflets. 

 Gravelly river-margins. — N. W. and Atl. Prov. 



* * Leaflets numerous, mostly in fascicles ofSorU along the axis. 



2. 0. Lambert'!, Pursh. Silvery-silky-pubescent. Flow- 

 ers large, purple, violet, or white. Scapes often a> foot high. 



