
PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 
This is only a few inches high, with 
i pa eg slender, slightly downy stems, branching 
(Hosackia) and spreading, and bright green leaves, 
Yellow with seven or more, small, narrow leaflets, 
Spring, summer, slightly thickish, with some minute, bristly 
SNe hairs. The few flowers are about a 
ornia 
quarter of an inch long, mostly single, 
bright yellow, tinged with red, fading to orange, and have 
a sort of miniature prettiness. This grows in the south. 
An attractive little perennial, forming 
Bird-foot =‘ jow clumps, harmonious in coloring, of 
A nisolélus deciim- " e 
bexs (Lotus) pale gray-green, downy foliage, sprinkled 
(Hosackia) with small clusters of charming little 
Yellow flowers, each less than half an inch long, 
Summer 
various shades of yellow, and arranged ina 
circle. The pods are hairy and it grows on 
sunny, sandy slopes. 
Though the flowers are small and the 
Northwest 
ne. as 5s foliage scanty, the shaded effect of mingled 
(Feri: yellow and orange of these plants is rather 
(Hosackia) pretty, as we see them by the wayside, 
Yellow and orange The many, long, smooth, reed-like stems 
Ga grow from two to five feet high, branching 
from the root, somewhat woody below, 
loosely spreading, or sometimes half lying on the ground. 
The leaves are almost smooth, very small and far apart, 
with from three to six, oblong leaflets, and the flowers, 
from a quarter to half an inch long, are clustered in close 
little bunches along the stem, forming long wands, tipped 
with green buds, and shading downward through the bright 
yellow of the larger buds to the orange of the open flowers 
and the dull red of the faded ones. The pod is incurved, 
tipped with the long style. This is common and widely 
distributed, a perennial, but said to live only two or three 
years. In the south it often makes symmetrical little 
bushes, pleasing in appearance. It is a valuable bee- 
plant. A. Wrighti of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and 
Colorado, is quite leafy, with erect stems and branches, 
bushy and woody at base, the small leaflets from three to 
five in number. The flowers, without pedicles, are much 
like the last, but over half an inch long, yellow becoming 
reddish, with a blunt keel, and scattered all over the plant. 
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