. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Order 46.—LEGUMINOSiE. 307 2 C vAria L. St. herbaceous, erect, smooth, branching; Ivs. sessile, smooth; Ifls. 11 to 19, all subsessik', oblong, obtuse; umbels long-podunculate, 10 to 15- Jlowered; fls. palo purple.—An elegant European species, 2 to 4f high, crowned with many hemispherical umbels V diam. Jl.—Sept. f 22. HEDYS'ARUM, L. (Gr. 7]dv^, sweet, dpwjua, sme
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Order 46.—LEGUMINOSiE. 307 2 C vAria L. St. herbaceous, erect, smooth, branching; Ivs. sessile, smooth; Ifls. 11 to 19, all subsessik', oblong, obtuse; umbels long-podunculate, 10 to 15- Jlowered; fls. palo purple.—An elegant European species, 2 to 4f high, crowned with many hemispherical umbels V diam. Jl.—Sept. f 22. HEDYS'ARUM, L. (Gr. 7]dv^, sweet, dpwjua, smell.) Calyx cleft into 5 linear-subulate, subequal segments; keel obliquely truncate, longer than the wings; stamens diadelphous (9 and 1), and with the style abruptly bent near the summit; legume (loment) of several 1-secdod joints connected by their middle.— ^ Mostly herbaceous. Lvs. unequally pinnate. H. bore ale Nutt. Sta. erect; lvs. subsessile, of 6 to 10 pairs of oblong, smooih- isii Ifts.; stip. united, sheathing, with subulate points ; rac. spicate, on long ped- uncles ; fls. numerous, deflexed; cal. teetli short, the lower longest; keel longer than the banner or wings; joints of the legume 1 to 4, flat, suborbicular, rugoso- reticulate.—On the precipitous sides of Willoughby Mt., Westmore, Vt. 500f above tho lake b low, N. to Hudson's Bay. St. rigid, i to 2f high, very leafy. Lft?. 5 to 8" by 2 to 4", obtuse-mucronulate. Rac. 2 to 4' long, on rigid pedun- cles 3 to 5'. Fls. largei and handsome, violet-purple. Jn.—Jl. 23. DESMO'DIUW, DC. (Iledysarum L.) Bush Trefoil. (Gr. dFafxag, a bond; m reference to the slightly connected joints of the loment.) Calyx 5-cleft, bilabiate, sometimes bibracteolate at base; vexiHum roundish; keel obtuse ; stamens diadelphous (9 and 1), some- times nionadelphous ; legume (loment) compressed, jointed, constricted most on the lower (dorsal) suture, the joints 1-seedeu, separable, mostly aculeate and adhesive.— U Herb
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