BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 
alternated along opposite sides of a slender stem which 
terminates in a tendril. The downy, thin-textured 
leaflets are acutely pointed and bristle-tipped. The 
main stalk is grooved, and grows from two to four feet 
in length. The small flowers resemble those of a bean, 
and are closely crowded along one side of a long curve- 
ing spike growing from the angles of the leaves. They 
are reflexed on the stem — that is, they are abruptly 
bent or turned downward and are not erect, like, for 
instance, the florets of a freshly opened Clover. 
WILD, OR HOG PEANUT 
Amphicarpa monoica. Pea Family. 
This ill-named, slender, sparingly branched climb- 
ing vine grows from one to eight feet in length. It is 
common everywhere in moist thickets and rich, damp 
woodlands during August and September. Three 
pointed, egg-shaped leaflets compose the compound leaf. 
They are smooth, thin, toothless and short stemmed. 
The delicate, light green alternating leaves are slen- 
der stemmed. The butterfly-shaped flowers are gath- 
ered in small, drooping, short-stemmed clusters, at the 
leaf angles. They are purplish or lilac, and precede the 
numerous small, hairy pods containing several mot- 
tled brown seeds. Rudimentary flowers are also borne 
on very slender, creeping stems at the base or root of 
the vine and ripen their fruit beneath the surface of 
the ground in the form of fleshy, pear-shaped pods. 
Pigs are notorious rooters after these subterranean 
Peanuts, and consequently country people began to 
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