WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 1 45 



Goat's-rue ; Wild Sweet Pea 

 Cracca virginiana Linnaeus 



Plan- io8b 



Stems from a few inches to nearly 2 feet high, few or many in a dense 

 cluster, erect or nearly so, from a stout, perennial root which is elongated, 

 tough and fibrous. Stems and leaves silky with whitish hairs. Leaves 

 odd-pinnate, short petioled; leaflets nine to twenty-five, oblong, linear- 

 oblong or the terminal one oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, rounded and 

 mucronate at the apex or sometimes notched, three-fourths to 1 inch long 

 and one-eighth to one-third of an inch wide. Flowers crowded in a ter- 

 minal, often compound and nearly sessile racemelike cluster; each flower 

 one-half to three-fourths of an inch long on a short pedicel. Calyx with 

 five nearly equal teeth; petals clawed, the standard rounded, yellow and 

 conspicuous, wings and keel reddish or purplish. Fruiting pod narrow, 

 densely hairy, 1 to 2 inches long. 



In dry and sandy soil, Maine to Minnesota, Arkansas, Florida, Louisi- 

 ana and Northern Mexico. Flowering in June and July or sometimes as 

 late as August in the north. 



Coronilla; Axseed; Axwort 



Coronilla varia Linnaeus 



Plate 109 



Stems ascending or straggling, glabrous and usually much branched, 

 1 to 3 feet long from perennial roots. Leaves sessile; odd-pinnate; leaflets 

 eleven to twenty-five, oblong or obovate, blunt and mucronate at the apex, 

 narrowed or rounded at the base, one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, 

 one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch wide. Flowers numerous in dense 

 umbels terminating peduncles several inches in length; each flower one- 

 third to one-half of an inch long on very short pedicels; standard (upper 

 petal) pink, wings (lateral petals) white or purple -tipped. Fruit pod 

 coriaceous, linear, four-angled, with two or three joints, each about one- 

 fourth of an inch long or slightly longer. 



