196 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
by others next Vicieg, though really differing from both. The calyx 
of Abrus is nearly truncate above, and its two posterior teeth are 
more or less coherent. The claw of the standard is slightly adherent 
to the base of the gutter formed by the staminal filaments. The 
fruit is an oblong or linear compressed bivalve pod, with rudiments 
of septa inside between the seeds. These are the pretty little red 
Cicer arietinum. 
AOA 
Fie. 148. 
Habit (2). 
“peas” with a black stain at one end, so well and universally known. 
By the characters of its fruit Adrus is sharply marked off from 
Dalbergiee, to which series the organization of its flower would have 
else approximated it. Its leaves are paripinnate with indefinite 
leaflets. Excepting then this last genus, the series Victee is most 
natural; so that it will be seen how slight are the characters used 
to distinguish the several genera, and how insufficient they would 
be deemed in many other orders. 
