Two appendages, the stipules, are attached to the base of the leaf stalk (Fig. 6, St.). They are generally narrow and in-significant, but some-times, as in peas, they are shaped like the leaflets and are almost as large.
flowers of leguminous plants are in clusters which, however different in appearance, are always constructed after the same principle. Sometimes they are long and comparatively sparsely covered with flowers, as in vetches (Plates 24 and 25). They are then called short and the flowers