The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
27. Desmodium. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1) or monadelphous below.
Calyx 2-lipped. Pod several-jointed. Flowers all of one sort and
complete. Leaflets stipellate.
28. Lespedeza. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1); anthers uniform. Pod
1--2-jointed. Flowers often of 2 sorts, the more fertile ones apetalous.
Leaflets not stipellate.
29. Stylosanthes. Stamens monadelphous; anthers of 2 sorts. Pod
1--2-jointed. Calyx deciduous, the tube narrow and stalk-like. Leaflets
not stipellate.
[+][+][+][+] Herbs with abruptly pinnate leaves, terminated by a tendril
or bristle; stamens diadelphous; pod continuous, 2-valved,
few--several-seeded. (VICIEÆ.)
30. Vicia. Wings adherent to the keel. Style filiform, bearded with a
tuft or ring of hairs at the apex.
31. Lathyrus. Wings nearly free. Style somewhat dilated and flattened
upwards, bearded down the inner face.
[+][+][+][+][+] Twining (sometimes only trailing) herbs, leaves
pinnately 3- (rarely 1- or 5--7-) foliolate; no tendrils; peduncles or
flowers axillary, pod not jointed, 2-valved. (PHASEOLEÆ.)
[=] Leaves pinnate.
32. Apios. Herbaceous twiner; leaflets 5--7. Keel slender and much
incurved or coiled.
[=][=] Leaves 3-foliolate. Ovules and seeds several. Flowers not yellow.
33. Phaseolus. Keel spirally coiled; standard recurved-spreading. Style
bearded lengthwise. Flowers racemose. Seeds round-reniform.
34. Strophostyles. Keel long, strongly incurved. Style bearded
lengthwise. Flowers sessile, capitate, few. Seeds oblong, mostly
pubescent.
35. Centrosema. Calyx short, 5-cleft. Standard with a spur at the base;
keel broad, merely incurved. Style minutely bearded next the stigma.
36. Clitoria. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed. Standard erect, spurless; keel
scythe-shaped. Style bearded down the inner face.
37. Amphicarpæa. Calyx tubular, 4--5-toothed. Standard erect; keel
almost straight. Style beardless. Some nearly apetalous fertile flowers
next the ground.
38. Galactia. Calyx 4 cleft, the upper lobe broadest and entire. Style
beardless. Bract and bractlets minute, mostly deciduous.
[=][=][=] Leaves 1--3-foliolate. Ovules and seeds only one or two.
Flowers yellow.
39. Rhynchosia. Keel scythe shaped. Calyx 4--5-parted. Pod short.
SUBORDER II. Cæsalpinieæ. (BRASILETTO FAMILY.) Corolla perfectly or not
at all papilionaceous, sometimes nearly regular, imbricated in the bud,
the upper or odd petal inside and enclosed by the others, Stamens 10 or
fewer, commonly distinct, inserted on the calyx. Seeds anatropous, often
with albumen. Embryo straight.
[*] Flowers imperfectly papilionaceous, perfect. Trees.
40. Cercis. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Pod flat, wing-margined.
Leaves simple.
[*][*] Flowers not at all papilionaceous, perfect. Calyx 5-parted.
Herbs.
41. Cassia. Leaves simply and abruptly pinnate, not glandular-punctate.
42. Hoffmanseggia. Leaves bipinnate, glandular-punctate.
[*][*][*] Flowers not at all papilionaceous, polygamous or diœcious.
Trees.
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