PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 
inch or more long, with a pale, yellowish-green, downy 
calyx and cream-white corolla, and form a fine cluster, 
from four to ten inches long. The egg-shaped pods are 
much inflated and almost papery, an inch or more long. 
This grows on sea-cliffs and in sandy soil near the coast. 
A pretty plant, unusual in coloring, 
Pink Lady- the short stems spreading on the ground 
fingers, Sheep- and springing from a short, perennial 
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see % root; the foliage all very pale bluish-gray, 
Utahénsis covered with silvery down, the thickish 
Pink leaflets from eleven to seventeen in num- 
Spring, summer, ber the younger leaves and flower buds 
autumn : 
Utah, Nev. almost white. The flowers are about an 
inch long, in loose clusters, with flower- 
stalks from three to four inches long; the calyx long, 
’ pinkish-gray and downy, the standard pale pink, the wings 
deeper purplish-pink, the keel yellowish-pink. The pod 
is short, leathery, woolly, and stemless. This grows in dry, 
gravelly soil and in favorable situations makes low, circu- 
lar clumps of foliage, suggesting the old-fashioned crochet 
lamp-mats that we used to see in New England farm- 
houses, for the pale leaves are symmetrically arranged in 
neat clusters and ornamented at intervals with pink flowers. 
Unlike, however, the worsted ornament, its coloring is 
delicately harmonious and beautiful. 
A very slender plant, with trailing 
Astragalus 
euibees stems, one or two feet long, the leaflets 
Purple odd in number and downy on the under 
Spring side. The flowers are about half an inch 
Arizona 
long, with a whitish, downy calyx and 
a bright purple corolla, shading to white at the base. This 
grows in mountain canyons and looks a good deal like a 
Vetch, except that it has no tendrils. 
This is a straggling plant, a foot and a 
mene as On half tall, smooth all over, with stout stems 
Loco-weed 3 : 
Aeanalas and many bluish-green leaflets. The 
pomonénsis flowers are over half an inch long, with a 
White very pale calyx and _ yellowish-white - 
Spring 
corolla, forming a rather pretty cluster, 
about three inches long. The pods are 
each over an inch long and much inflated, forming a large 
bunch, odd and very conspicuous in appearance. 
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