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. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. LEGUMINOSAE (PULSE FAMILY^ 519 88. DESffldDIUM Desv. Tick Trefoil Calyx usually 2-llpped. Standard obovate; wings adherent to the straight or straightish and usually truncate keel, by means of a little transverse append- age on each side of the latter. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1, or monadelphous below. Pod flat, deeply lobed on the lower margii,, separating into flat reticu- lated joints (mostly roughened with minute hooked hairs). — Perennial
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. LEGUMINOSAE (PULSE FAMILY^ 519 88. DESffldDIUM Desv. Tick Trefoil Calyx usually 2-llpped. Standard obovate; wings adherent to the straight or straightish and usually truncate keel, by means of a little transverse append- age on each side of the latter. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1, or monadelphous below. Pod flat, deeply lobed on the lower margii,, separating into flat reticu- lated joints (mostly roughened with minute hooked hairs). — Perennial herbs with pinnately 3-foliolate (rarely 1-foliolate) leaves, stipellate. Flowers in axil- lary or terminal racemes, often panicled, and 2 or 3 from each bract, purple nl purplish, often turning green in withering. Stipules and bracts scale-like, often striate. (Name from SeanU, a bond or chain, from the connected joints of the pods.) Meibomia Adans. —In this genus the figures of the loments are on a scale of \\. § 1. Fod raised nn a stalk (stipe) many times longer than the slightly toothed calyx andnearlij aslong asthepedicel, straightish on the upper margin, deeply sinuate on the lower; the 1-4 joints mostly half-obovate 'and concave on the back; sta- mins monadelphous below; plants nearly glabrous; stems erect or ascending; raceme terminal, panicled; stipules Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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