. 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. PEA 1 I. Clitoria mariana L. Butterfly-Pea. Fig. 2634. Clitorm marmna L. Sp. PI. 753- '753. Erect or ascending, sometimes twining, glabrous or nearly so, i°ji° high. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, i"-2" long; petioles usually shorter than the leaves; leaflets stipel- late, ovate-lanceolaje or oblong-Ianceolate, ob- tuse, mucronate, 1-2' long, 4&qu
. 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. PEA 1 I. Clitoria mariana L. Butterfly-Pea. Fig. 2634. Clitorm marmna L. Sp. PI. 753- '753. Erect or ascending, sometimes twining, glabrous or nearly so, i°ji° high. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, i"-2" long; petioles usually shorter than the leaves; leaflets stipel- late, ovate-lanceolaje or oblong-Ianceolate, ob- tuse, mucronate, 1-2' long, 4"-i2" wide; pe- duncles short, 1-3-flowered; bracts lanceolate, striate, deciduous; flowers about 2' long, very showy; tubular, 6"-8" long, its teeth ovate, acute; corolla pale blue; pods linear- oblong, acute, about i long and 3" wide. Dry soil, Snake Hill, X. J., south to Florida, west to Missouri and Texas. Formerly at Brook- lyn, X. V. Clabber-spoon. June-July. Dolichos LabUb the hyacinth bean, native of tropical .Asia and widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its edible seeds, is a long annual vine with large purple flowers and broad several-seeded pods. It is naturalized in the Southern States, and spontaneous, though scarcely established north to Ohio and the District of 43. BRADBURYA Raf. Fl. Liidov. 104. 1817. [ Benth. .\nn. Mus. Wien, 2: 117. 1838.] Slender twining or prostrate vines, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves (rarely 5-7-foHoIate), persistent stipules, and large showy axillary racemose or solitarj- flowers. Calyx campanu- late, its teeth or lobes nearly equal; standard orbicular, nearly flat, spurred on the back near its base, clawed; wings obovate, curved; keel curved. Stamens more or less diadelphous (9 and i) ; anthers all alike. Style incurved, bearded at the around the stigma. Pod linear, flattened, nearly sessile, partially septate between the seeds, 2-valved, the valv
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