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patenter villosis demum glabratis, ramis virgatis ascendentibus vel erectis 

 lineato-angulatis patenter villosis. Folia stipulis lineari-subulatis 2,5 — 4 mm 

 longis et petiolo supra sulcato nunc perbrevi nunc ad 2 cm longo ascen- 

 denter vel saepius patenter villoso et rhachi ad 1 cm longa praedita. 

 Filiola membranacea ovata vel ovali-elliptica vel oblonga, infima nonnun- 

 quam suborbicularia apice acutiuscula vel obtusa vel retusa mucronata, 

 utrimque subadpresse laxe pubescentia, nervis secundariis utrimque leviter 

 prominulis, terminale ad 3 cm longum et ad 1,5 cm latum, lateralia vix 

 minora. Racemi florum perfectorum axillares singuli vel bini ± patenter 

 pubescentes longe pedunculati interrupti floribus geminatis vel subgeminatis 

 ad 10-flori cum pedunculo ad 10 cm longi patentes vel ascendentes; brac- 



teae primariae et secundariae lanceolatae ± 1,5 mm longae; pedicelli bracteas 

 paullo superantes calyce semper breviores patenter vel ascendenter pilosi; 

 bracteolae lanceolatae pilosae 1,7 — 2 mm longae. Calyx 4 — 4,5 mm longus 

 ultra dimidium fissus sublonge denseque ascendenter pilosus, tubo 1—1,5 mm 

 longo, laciniis angustis acutis 2,5 — 3 mm longis, posticis 1,5—2 mm con- 

 natis. Corolla violacea calycem duplo excedens alis carinam semper, vexillum 

 quoque nonnunquam superantibus, vexillo obovato apiculato longiore quam 

 lato 7 — 7,5 mm longo et 5 — 5,5 mm lato appendiculato 1 mm-unguiculato, 

 alis oblique oblongis 7 — 7,8 mm longis et ± 2 mm latis 2 mm-unguiculatis, 

 carina apice late rotundata 6—6,7 mm longo et 2 — 2,5 mm lato 2 mm- 

 unguiculato. Legumen obovatum calycem plus duplo et staminum colum- 

 nam superans 7 — 8 mm longum et 3 — 4 mm latum, subabrupte in mucronem 



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brevem attenuatum, breviter incluso-stipitatum, margine faciebusque sparse 

 breviterque patenter pilosum, distincte elevato-reticulatum. Flores apetali 

 in foliorum axillis subsessiles vel in racemos ± pedunculated ad 6-floros 

 fere capitatos collecti vel in apicibus racemorum perfectorum bini subses- 



siles, calyce ± reducto, legumen ovatum vel obovatum subabrupte in api- 



culum brevissimum attenuatum 6 — 6,5 mm longum et ± 4 mm latum 

 margine faciebusque brevissime sparsissimeque subadpresse pilosulum, 

 distincte elevato-reticulatum. 



Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika im Gestrupp und auf 

 feuchtem und trockenen Grasland: Ost-Staaten: Massachusetts; Milton, 

 Blue Hill (Faxon!); Rhode Island: Providence (Thorster!); Connecticut: 

 New Haven (Allen!, Eaton!, A. Gray!); New -York: (Ravolle!), Ithaca 

 (Wiegand!), Long Island (Heuser n. 88!, 383!, Miller!), Brooklyn (Hbuser 

 n- 301 !), Staten Island (Britton!); New Jersey: (herb. Bentham!), Snake 

 Hill bei Jersey City (Heuser!); Pennsylvania: (Townsend!), Reading and 

 Bethlehem (Unio itin.!), Pittsburg (Volz!), West Chester (Darlington!, 

 Hookbr!), Philadelphia (BERNnARDi!), Bucks Co. (Moyer!), Lancaster Co., Mars 

 Hill (Haines n. 13!), Westmoreland Co. (Pierson!); Ohio: Cincinnati (Double- 

 »ay!); Delaware; (Canby!, Nuttall!); Virginia: (Beyrich!), Portsmouth 

 (Kugel n. 30!), Bedford Co. (Curtiss!); Kentucky: (Short!), Olympian 



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