. 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. Botany. FABACEAE. 44, GLYCINE L. Sp. PI 753- i753- [Brauleia Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 324. 1763.] [Apios Moench, Melh. 165. I794-] Twining perennial vines, with pinnately 3-7-foliolate leaves, small stipules and rather large brownish-purple or red flowers, mainly in axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx cam- panulate, somewhat 2-lipped, the 2 lateral teeth very small, the 2 upper uni
. 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. Botany. FABACEAE. 44, GLYCINE L. Sp. PI 753- i753- [Brauleia Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 324. 1763.] [Apios Moench, Melh. 165. I794-] Twining perennial vines, with pinnately 3-7-foliolate leaves, small stipules and rather large brownish-purple or red flowers, mainly in axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx cam- panulate, somewhat 2-lipped, the 2 lateral teeth very small, the 2 upper united and short, the lower one long and acute. Standard ovate, or orbicular, reflexed. Wings obliquely obovate, adherent to the elongated incurved at length twisted keel. Stamens diadelphous (.9 and i) ; anthers all alike; ovary nearly sessile; ovules 00; style slender. Pod linear, straight or slightly curved, compressed, 2-valved, many-seeded. Rootstocks tuberous. [Greek, from the sweet tubers.] Five known species, the following of eastern North America, 2 of China and i of the Hima- layas. Type species : Glycine Apios L. Standard suborbicular, rounded or retuse at the apex; tubers necklace-like. 1. G. Apios, Standard produced at the apex into a thickened appendage; tubers large, solitary. 2. G. Priceana. I. Glycine Apios L. Ground-nut. Wild Bean. Fig. 2636. Glycine Apios L. Sp. PI. 753- I753. Apios liibcrosa Moench, Meth. 165. I794- Apios Apios MacM. Bull. Torr. Club 19: 15. 1892. Slender, pubescent or glabrate, climbing over uslies to a height of several feet. Rootstock tuberous, the tubers necklace-shaped; stipules subulate, i"-2" long, deciduous; leaves petioled; leaflets 5-7 (rarely 3), ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, i'-3' long; racemes axillary, often com- pound ; peduncles shorter than the leaves; flowers numerous, brownish purple, odorous, about 6" long; standard not appendaged; rachis of the in- florescence
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