PEA FAMILY 



The only members of the genus in cultivation are a few Oriental 

 species, of which the most valuable is Lespedeza striata, the Japan 

 clover, now naturalized in the South and regarded as a good hay 

 and pasture plant. The best of the ornamental species is Les- 

 pedeza Sieboldi, which in the spring sends up strong, wiry shoots 

 that in time become thickly leaved, take on the aspect of a bush, 



and in September and October are 

 covered with a wealth of rose-purple 

 blossoms. Lespedeza bicolor, also 

 from Japan, is a slender, hardy 

 shrub which is sometimes cultivated. 

 Lepedeza japdnicum with . white 

 flowers may be, a botanical variety 

 of Sieboldi but seems to be horti- 

 culturally distinct. 



MANY-LEAVED LUPINE 



Luplnus polyphyttus. 



Lupinus, from lupus, wolf, because 

 these plants were supposed to de- 

 stroy the fertility of the soil. 



Lespedeza. 



siiboldi 



Stem. — Erect, three to five feet high. 



Leaves. — Many, radical, long-petioled, digitate; leaflets five to twelve 

 oblanceolate. 



Flowers. — Papilionaceous, showy, blue, in terminal racemes. 



Calyx. — ^Two-lipped and toothed; sides of standard reflexed; wings 

 united at apex and enclosing the keel; keel scythe-shaped, pointed. 



Stamens. — Monodelphous; anthers of two forms. 



O^^ary.— Sessile, style incurved, pod flattened. 



This is the principal hardy perennial species of the gardens. 

 Above a handsome clump of satiny, many-fingered leaves rises a 

 long spike of bluish-purple, pea-shaped flowers in Jime and July. 



Wild; Lupine, Lupinus perennis, is a native Lupine bearing 

 spikes of pale-blue and violet flowers atove a tuft of beautiful 

 palmate leaves. Commonly there are about eight leaflets, though 

 sometimes seven and rarely eleven. The plant grows luxuriantly 



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