. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Legumi-ndsiF. Tick Trefoil. Mostly herbs, of or morespecies, in temperate and warm regions of America,Asia, Africa and Australia. Lvs. pinnate, with 3-5(rarely 1) leaflets: fls. small and papilionaceous, in ter-minal or axillary racemes in summer, mostly purple:pod flat, deeply lobed or jointed, the joints often bre
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Legumi-ndsiF. Tick Trefoil. Mostly herbs, of or morespecies, in temperate and warm regions of America,Asia, Africa and Australia. Lvs. pinnate, with 3-5(rarely 1) leaflets: fls. small and papilionaceous, in ter-minal or axillary racemes in summer, mostly purple:pod flat, deeply lobed or jointed, the joints often break-ing apart and adhering to clothing and to animals bymeans of small hooked hairs. Fig. G94. A number ofspecies are native to N. America, and are sometimesgrown in the hardy border, where they thrive under or-dinary conditions. One hothouse species, D. garaiis,is sometimes cult, for its odd moving leaflets. 1>. pen-duHflorum and will be found under Les-pedeza. Several of the native spe ies are worthy ofcult., but are practically unknown in the trade Thefollowing have been offered b\ coUec-tirs CiinadenseDC; cuspidatum Hook Dill m Diil Maiilandicum,Boott;nudifloium DC pn)n ulaliim DC pan iWorum, DC. seiSthflonim Torr i, Graj The Florida DEUTZIA 473 Ph ^,. Beggar-weed is Desmodiiim lorliiosum. DC, of the It is coming into prominence in the south as aforage plant (see Farmers Bull. 102, U. S. Dept. ofAgric.). gjrans, DC. Telegraph Plant. From 2-3 ft. high,with 3 oblong or elliptic leaflets, the small lateral ones(which are almost linear) moving in various directionswhen the temperature is congenial, and especially inthe sunshine : fls. purple or violet, in a S. Asia. Grown occasionally as a curiosity,particularly in botanical collections. See DarwinsPower of Movement in Plants, and various botanicaltreatises, for fuller accounts. Desmodium gijrinis is of tolerably easy culture. Itrequires stove temperature, and, although a perennial,it i
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