An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 360 FABACEAE. Vol. II. stamens monadelphous, or the vexillar one distinct; pod ovoid, stalked or sessile, few-seeded, indehiscent, enclosed by the calyx. [Ancient name for some quite different plant.] Twenty species or ves of Europe, Asia Africa, the following typical. I. Anthyllis Vulneraria L. Kidney \'etch. Lad
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 360 FABACEAE. Vol. II. stamens monadelphous, or the vexillar one distinct; pod ovoid, stalked or sessile, few-seeded, indehiscent, enclosed by the calyx. [Ancient name for some quite different plant.] Twenty species or ves of Europe, Asia Africa, the following typical. I. Anthyllis Vulneraria L. Kidney \'etch. Lad)'s- fingers. Fig. 2490. L. Sp. PI. 7'9. 1753. Perennial, pubescent; stems often tufted, 8-15' long. Leaflets 3-17. oblong, or those of basal leaves reduced to a solitary terminal broad one: peduncles as long as the leaves or longer; heads subtended by a deeply lobed bract; calyx very hairy, much inflated, narrowed at the mouth; corolla yellow to dark red, 6'-io' long. In fields. Pennsylvania and Ontario, and in waste and bal- last grounds at the Atlantic seaports. Adventive from Europe. June-Aug. 16. PSORALEA [B. T'ss.] L. Sp. PI. 762. 1753. Herbs or shrubs, with dark glands or pellucid dots, 1-5-foliolate leaves, and purple blue pink or white flowers, mainly in spikes or racemes. Stipules broad. Calyx-lobes equal or the lower longest, or the two upper ones sometimes united. Standard ovate or orbicular, clawed; wings oblong or falcate: keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens monadelphous or diadel- phous; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, i-ovuled. Pod ovoid, short, inde- hiscent, l-seeded. [Greek, scurfy, from the glandular dots, whence the name scurfy-pea.] About 120 species, of wide geographic distribution. In addition to the following, about -^5 others occur in the western United States. Type species: Psoraica bituminosa h. Leaves digitately 3-5-folioIate (leaflets all from the same point). Plants leafy-stemmed. Flowers small, ^'-4' long. Pods subglobose. Pods ovoid,
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