36 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



angular and grooved, freely branching and somewhat 

 brittle. The stipules are in pairs, and from their pointed 

 apex, and a lateral projection on one side, are like half an 

 arrow-head. The leaves are made up of several pairs of 

 leaflets, and terminate in a branched tendril. The flowers, 

 as our illustration clearly shows, grow in long racemes 

 that spring from the axils of the leaves, alternately on one 

 side or other of the stem. Most of the flowers point in the 

 same general direction, and stand on short footstalks. 

 The calyx has five teeth, the two upper ones very small ; 

 the next two being larger, and the lowest the most fully 

 extended. The corolla is of the type we find in all the 

 papilionaceous plants, and the stamens follow the ordinary 

 rule of pea-flowers and are ten in number, nine being 

 united together into one brotherhood, and the tenth being 

 detached. 



