142 POPULAR FLORA. 
* Stamens, 10, united by their filaments, either all into a closed tube (monadelphous, Fig. 187), or 9 in 
a tube split down on one side, and the 10th separate or nearly so (diadelphous, Fig. 186). 
Shrubs or trees, not twining nor climbing. 
Flowers white or rose-colored, in hanging racemes. Leaves odd-pinnate, (Robinia) Locust-TREE. 
Flowers yellow, in small racemes. Pod bladdery. Leaves odd-pinnate, ( Coliitea) *BLADDER-SENNA, 
Flowers yellow, in hanging racemes. Pod narrow. Leaflets 3, ( Cytisus) * LABURNUM. 
Shrubs, with long twining stems. Flowers blue-purple in racemes, ( Wistaria) WisTarta. 
Herbs. ¢ 
Stems not twining, climbing, nor with any trace of tendrils. 
Leaves simple: stipules winging the stem below the leaf. Flowers yellow. Pod 
inflated, many-seeded, (Crotalaria) RATTLEROX. 
Leaves of 5 to 15 palmate leaflets. Flowers in a long raceme, (Lupinus) Lupine. 
Leaves abruptly pinnate, of 4 leaflets. Pod formed underground, (A'rachis) * Peanut. 
Leaves odd-pinnate, of several or many leaflets. 
Leaflets serrate. Flowers single, white. Pod inflated, 2-seeded, (Cicer) * CHicK-PEa. 
Leaflets entire. Flowers in a raceme or spike. 
Corolla broad. Pod flat, narrow, several-seeded, (Tephrosia) Hoary-Pra. 
Corolla narrow. Pod inflated or turgid, often 2-celled, (Astragalus) ASTRAGAL. 
Leaves of 8 (or rarely 5) leaflets. Pods like akenes or burs. 
Stipules cohering with the base of the leafstalk. 
Flowers in heads. Pod thin and small, in the persistent calyx, (Trifolium) Cover. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes. 
Leaflets not dotted, but generally serrate. 
Pods wrinkled, like akenes, coriaceous, ( Melilotus) Metitot. 
Pods curved, or else coiled up in various ways, (Medicago) Mrpicx. 
Leaflets, &c. sprinkled with dark dots, entire. (Psoralea) Psorauea. 
Stipules not at all united with the leafstalk. 
Pods very small and flat, closed, one-seeded, (Lespedéza) Busu-CLovex. 
Pods separating into several-seeded flat roughish joints, (Desmédium) T1cK-TREFOIL. 
Btems climbing or disposed to climb : leaves pinnate with a tendril at the end. 
Calyx with 5 leafy lobes. Seeds globular. Leaflets few, (Pisum) * Pra. 
Calyx-lobes or teeth not leafy. 
Tendril conspicuous. Style hairy along the inner side, (Ldthyrvis) Evertastinc-PEa. 
Tendril conspicuous. Style hairy round the tip, ( Vieta) Vetrcu. 
Tendril hardly any. Seed oblong, fixed by one end, (Faba) * Horse-BEAn. 
Stems twining more or less: no tendrils to the leaves. 
Keel of the corolla coiled into a ring or spiral. 
Leaflets 8, with stipels, (Phaséolus) BEAN. 
Leaflets 5 or 7. Flowers brown-purple. Tubers underground, (A'pios) Grouxpyut. 
Keel not coiled or twisted. Leaflets 8, with stipels. 
Calyx 4-cleft, the lobes acute, (Galéctia) Mu.x-PEA. 
Calyx 4-toothed. Pods both above and under ground, (Amphicarpen) Hoo-PEANUT. 
Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Flower large, purple-blue, (Clitoria) Burrexriy-PEea. 
* *® Stamens 10, separate, except at the very base. Petal only one! (Fig. 356.) Shrubs: 
leaves pinnate: flowers small, violet-purple, in a spike or raceme, (Amérpha) AMORPHA. 
