BLUE AND PURPLE FLOWERS 
Slender Bush-clover (Lespedeza virginica). Ptdse family. 
August, September, 
A slender herb, averaging two feet, with stem unbranched, 
or with few upright branches. The tiny purplish flowers are 
in close clusters in the axils. Leaves compoimd, with three 
leaflets, narrowly oblong (one-half to one and one-half inches), 
with delicate stalks. Dry ground. Named for Governor 
Lespedez, of Florida. 
Hog Peanut (Amphicarpa monoka). Pulse family. 
August, September. 
A delicate vine which twines about other plants. Flowers 
tiny, " magenta-lilac," in short racemes, pod about an inch long. 
The leaves have three thin leaflets. Rich woods. Common. 
(Greek signifying both fruits, one, under ground, being fleshy.) 
Alfalfa. Lucerne {Medicago sativa). Pulse family. June 
to August. 
An upright perennial, a foot or more high, bearing purple 
flowers, half an inch long, in short racemes. The three leaflets 
are toothed toward the outer end, where they are broader; the 
leaflets are on separate stalks, the stalk of the middle one being 
bent. Alfalfa has been known in Europe since the time of 
Christ, introduced from Media, whence the name. 
Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis). Pulse family. May, 
June. 
An upright perennial, a foot or two high, with rather stout 
stem and blue flowers in long raceme at the end; a decorative 
plant of the roadside and field, not infrequently growing in 
clumps. The flowers are a half-inch or more long, with ten 
stamens united in a tube (monadelphous). The leaves have 
seven to eleven inversely lance-shaped leaflets. Sandy ground. 
Named from lupus, wolf, because thought to devour the fertility 
of soil (Gray). 
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