POPULAR FLORA. 145. 
2. CAROLINA V. Smooth; leaflets 8 to 12, oblong; flowers many, whitish, tipped with blue, rather: 
scattered on the peduncle, in spring. Banks, &c.,-common. V. Caroliniana. 
8. AMERICAN V. Smooth; leaflets 10 to 14, oval or oblong, very veiny; flowers 4 to.8 on the pe- 
duncle, purplish or bluish, in summer. N. V. Americana. 
* * Annual: flowers large, one or two together, sessile in the axils of the leaves. 
4. Common Tare. Leaflets 10 to 14, narrow; flowers violet-purple. Cultivated fields, "Y. satwa, 
Bean. Phaséolus. 
Keel of the corolla (with the included stamens and style) twisted or coiled, so as to form a ring, or 
one or more turns of a spiral coil. Stamens diadelphous. Pod flat or flattish, several-seeded. Seeds: 
flattish. Plants twining more or less, in one cultivated variety short and erect. Leaves of three 
leaflets, the end leaflet some way above the other two (i. e. pinnate of 3 leaflets): and they have stipels 
or little stipules to the leaflets. Fl. summer. 
%* Wild species: mostly found South and West. 
1. PERENNIAL Bran. Climbing high; leaflets round-ovate, pointed; flowers in long panicled racemes, 
purple; pods curved. Wooded banks, &c. P. perénnis. 
2. Trattinc Bran. Annual, spreading on the ground ; leaflets 3-lobed or angled; flowers ‘few, 
crowded at the end of a long erect peduncle, purplish; pods narrow, straight. Sandy places. 
4 P. diversifolius. 
* * Cultivated Beans. 
3. Common or Kipnry Bean. Known by its straight pods, pointed by the hardened lower part of the 
style, and the thick rather kidney-shaped seeds) The Dwarr or Busu Bran is a low’ and 
small viriety which does not twine. The ScarLer Runner is a free climbing variety, gen- 
erally red-flowered. P. vulgaris. 
4. Lima Bean. Known by its broad and flat, curved or scymitar-shaped pods, with few and large flat 
seeds. The Crver BEAN is a small variety of it. P. lunatus. 
False-Indigo. Baptisia. 
Flowers generally in racemes. Standard erect, with the sides rolled back: keel-petals nearly sepa- 
rate and straight, like the wings. Stamens 10, separate! Pod stalked in the calyx, bladdery, but 
rather thick-walled, pointed, containing many small seeds.— Perennial herbs, erect and branched, 
with palmate leaves of 3 leaflets. — The commonest are the following: _— 
1. YeLtow Fatse-Inpico. Glaucous, bushy-branched; leaves almost sessile; leaflets small, wedge- 
obovate; flowers few at the ends of the panicled branchlets, yellow, produced all summer. Dry 
grounds, common. B, tinctoria, 
2. Bue F. Tall and stout; stipules Jance-shaped, as long as the petiole; leafléts wedge-oblong; 
flowers many, large, blue, in a long raceme, in spring or early summer. (Fig, 354, 355.) Rich 
soil; common W. & S. and also cultivated in gardens. B. australis. 
Senna. Cassia, 
Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals 5, spreading, not papilionaceous, but a little irregular. Stamens 10, but 
those on one side of the blossom commonly-shorter, or without anthers; the anthers open at the top 
by two chinks or holes. Pods many-seeded. — Leaves simply and abruptly pinnate. The common 
species are herbs, with yellow flowers, in summer. 
