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PSORALEA melilotoides. 
Melilot Psoralea. 
n 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosa. Jussieu gen. 345. Div, V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea. Leg. 1-loc. 2-valv.==PAPILIONACEE. Brown in append, to 
Flind. voy. 2. 
PSORALEA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 223. 
Div. Foliis ternatis. 
P. melilotoides, foliis omnibus ternatis, foliolis lanceolatis, pedunculis folio 
longioribus spicatis: spicis lineari-lanceolatis, bracteis calyce longioribus. 
Solander MSS; (sub. P. Asphaltite). 
Psoralea melilotoides. Michauz dor. amer. 2. 58. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 475. 
Ventenat malm. 04. — Curtis's magaz. 2063. 
Psoralea Melilotus. Persoon syn. 2. 347. 
Psoralea Asphaltites. Solander in Herb. & Sched, banksianis. Specimine 
ontaneo sicco assumpta. 
Melilotus psoraloides, Nuttall gen. 2. 104. 
"Trifolium psoralioides. Walt. carol. 184. 
Hedysarum leguminibus monospermis, foliis ternatis foliolis lanceolatis. 
ron. virg. ed. 1.87; (affirmante specimine archetypo Claytoni in Herb. 
Gronov. in Mus. banks. Hoc malè a Linneo HEDYSARO violaceo, nunc 
LESPEDEZE violacex, pro synonymo adjunctum est.) 
Melilotus flore violaceo, odore remisso. Clayton n. 103. (ex specim. arche- 
typo). 
Onobrychis (forte) Asphaltites angustiori folio triphyllo floribus purpureis 
spicatis ex terrà mariana. Pluk. mant. 140; (affirmante specimine Herbar. 
luknetiani pag. 133; fide Solaudri ). 
Caulis angulatus, erectus, ramis caule brevioribus. Fol. alterna, ternata, 
petiolata: petiolo communi unciali: foliola lenceolata, obtusiuscula, sub- 
glabra sed punctis callosis utrinque adspersa, equalia: impar longiüs è reli- 
quis remotum quàm illa à basi (in superioribus, inferiora non vidi). Sti- 
pula lineares, lanceolate, punctis adsperse. Pedunculi è supremis alis, 
und? subterminales, foliis duplo v. triplo longiores. Flores subsessiles spicati: 
spica lineari-lanceolata. alyces punctis glandulosis adspersi. Bractex 
punctis magis callosis adsperse, ovale, acuminate, floribus 3-plo longiores, 
eosque arcte includunt ante explicationem dum bractee cadunt; valde enim 
caduca sunt. Soland. I. c.— Perennis, herbacea, pubescens. Racemus longis- 
sim? pedunculatus. Cal. varicoso-venosus. Cor. violaceo-pallens. Ale du- 
plo longiores cariná v. ultrd. Legumen wm, nudum, longitudine 
calycis, gibbosum, transversó rugosum, stylo persistente resupinato termina- 
tum. Nuttall loc. cit. (ex anglico.) 
By the inspection of the corresponding sample in the 
Claytonian Herbarium, from which the Flora Virginica was 
compiled by Gronovius, we are certain that our plant be- 
longs to the species cited from the first edition of that work; 
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