This section is from the book "Handbook Of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, And Herbaceous Plants", by W. Botting Hemsley. Also available from Amazon: Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants.
The name given to the lower pair of petals of Papilionaceous flowers.
Labiate, lipped, as the flowers of many Labiatae, etc.
White with a faint tinge of blue.
Growing in lakes.
The blade of a leaf.
In the form of a lance-head, tapering to both ends.
A name given to the seed-vessel of the Pea family, opening in two valves and having the seeds attached to the ventral suture.
Narrow with parallel edges.
Growing on the sea-shore.
Loculicidal {dehiscence). - Splitting down the back between the divisions.
Shining.
Yellow.
 
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