(A) Goats Rue; Cat Gut (Tephrosia virginiana ). 
We find this herb in most all dry, sandy, waste places 
from N. H. to Minn, and southwards. 
It is a pea-like plant with a simple, silky-haired, erect 
stem, leafy to the top where it terminates in a dense 
raceme or panicle of yellowish-wliite flowers marked 
with purple. The flowers are large and numerous; they 
have a rounded standard, but little longer than the 
wings and keel. Its roots are long, very slender and 
very tough. 
(B) Paktkidge Pea (Cassia Chavicecrista ) is a hand¬ 
some species with large, showy, yellow flowers measur¬ 
ing about I 14 inches across; often the five, large, 
rounded petals have purplish spots at their bases; after 
flowering, long erect seed pods are left in the place of 
each of the blossoms. 
The leaves of the Partridge Pea are long and com¬ 
pounded of 20-30 small, blunt, lance-shaped leaflets, 
each with a tiny awl-like point. The stem is erect, 
rather smooth, and grows one or two feet tall. We find 
this plant in dry or sandy fields throughout the United 
States. 
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