pulse ifamili?. 



Wild Bean. Apios tuherosa. 



Found on moist banks, among tangles of low bushes and sedges, 

 in August. 



This is a twining vine, leafy, rather slender, and slightly rough to 

 theiouch. In color, green, sometimes tinged with a dull red. 



The leaf is compound, usually of 5 or 7 leaflets; these are oval, 

 largest at the base, and tapering to the tip ; the margin is entire, the 

 fibre strong, and the surface slightly rough ; color, a strong, full green. 

 The leaves are alternate at intervals, springing from a strong joint. 



The upper petal of the flower is broad, and hood like, the middle 

 folded petal is like a beak beneath it, the side petals narrow and 

 hanging like ribbons to tie the hood. Its color is brown-pink, the hood 

 and beak darkest on the inside. The flowers are clustered together in 

 a dense rounded head, set on a short stem that springs from a leaf-joint. 



The front view of this flower carries out the fantastic suggestion of 

 the hood shaped petal, for the beak looks like a strongly hooked nose 

 far under its shadow. It is odorous. 



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