PEA FAMILY. Fabaceae. 
An attractive plant, about a foot high, 
Lo d ; : ; : 
A i io : with straggling, reddish stems and delicate 
MacDoigali foliage. The flowers are over half an 
White, lilac inch long, with a hairy calyx and pale 
tab lilac and white corolla, and form pretty 
clusters about two inches long. 
There are many kinds of Hedysarum, some from Africa 
and only a few in this country; perennial herbs, sometimes 
shrubby; the leaflets toothless, odd in number; the flowers 
in handsome racemes, with bracts, on staiks from the angles 
of the stem; the calyx with five, nearly equal teeth; the 
standard rather large, round, or inverted heart-shaped, 
’ narrow at base, the wings oblong, shorter than the stand- 
ard; the keel blunt, nearly straight, longer than the wings; 
the stamens in two sets of nine and one, not adhering to 
the corolla; the pod long, flat, and oddly jointed into 
several, strongly-veined, one-seeded, roundish divisions, 
which separate when ripe. The name is from the Greek, 
meaning “sweet-broom.” 
A very handsome and decorative plant, 
oe Shae” with large brilliant flower-clusters, con- 
Pink trasting well with the foliage and making 
Spring, summer spots of vivid color on dry plains and 
= hillsides. It has many stems, springing 
from a rootstock, which are from eight to fifteen inches 
long, yellowish-green, ridged, and covered with incon- 
spicuous down, the leaflets are light bluish-green, thickish, 
nine to seventeen in number, and the bracts are thin and 
dry. The flowers are about three-quarters of an inch 
long, with a pinkish-green and downy calyx, and the 
corolla all bright deep pink, fading to blue, with a veined 
-standard. The pod has from three to five divisions. This 
flourishes at rather high altitudes, up to seven thousand 
feet, and is conspicuously beautiful near the entrance to 
Ogden Canyon in Utah. 
There are a great many kinds of Trifolium, or Cloverd 
difficult to distinguish; low herbs; leaves usually with three 
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