YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Hairy Bush Clover (Lespedesa hirta). Pulse family. Late 
summer and autimm. 
An upright herb, two or three feet high, with stout, hairy 
stem, unbranched except sometimes at the top. The insig- 
nificant papilionaceous flowers are packed in dense heads (one- 
half to one and one-half inches) at the top, yellowish, sometimes 
with purple spots. Nine stamens in a group, one separate 
(diadelphous) . The leaflets resemble those of common clover. 
Dry ground. Named after Lespedez, a Florida governor. 
Wild Indigo {Bapiisia tinctoria). Pulse family. June to 
September. 
A branching perennial one and a half to four feet high. The 
papilionaceous flowers, half an inch in length, are arranged in 
short, open racemes at the ends of the branches ; the ten stamens 
are distinct. The three leaflets, averaging an inch long, rounded 
at the end and narrow at the base, rise from a short leaf-stalk, 
and finally turn black. The isolated round bushes of Tinctoria 
covered with yellow blossoms present quite a different picture 
from the low spreading masses of Genista for which they are 
often mistaken. Common in dry soil. The name is taken from 
haptizo, I dip, and tinctorius, concerned in dyeing. 
GROUP IX . 
Leaves (not opposite nor whorled) compound, some or all with 
over five leaflets. 
Agrimony {A grimoniagryposepala). Rose family. June 
to August. 
An upright, branching perennial, one and one-half to several 
feet high. The flowers (one-fourth inch broad) are in long, 
slender, spike-like racemes; the calyx is top-shaped; the five 
petals are small. The lower leaves are made up of about seven 
large leaflets, toothed, set directly on the leaf -stem; between 
these leaflets are interpersed small ones of different sizes. 
Woods and roadsides. 
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