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A. K. Schindler. 



Poeppig!, Macnab!, Steudel!), Bethlehem (Moser!), Easton (Tyler n. 406!), 

 West Chester (Darlington!), Pittsburgh (Volz!), Bucks Co. (Mover!), Lan- 

 caster Co. (Heller!); Ohio: Ohio Co., Cleveland (Dittos!, Krebs n. 447!); 

 Michigan: St. Clair Co., Port Huron (Dodge!); Indiana: Steuben Co., Clear 

 Lake (Deam!); Jowa: Jowa City (Somes n. 3897!); Maryland: Baltimore 

 (Obmler!); Virginia: Bedford Co. (Curtiss!); Kentucky: (Short!), Bell Co., 

 Wasioto (Kearney n. 192!); Carolina: Biltmore (Biltmore Herb. n. 1353b 

 p.!), Cherokee Co., Chioi Mts. (Rugel!); Georgia: (Beyrich n. 166!); Flo- 

 rida (Bucksley!), Jamony Lake (Rugel:); Alabama: Aspalaga und in den 

 Bergen am Coosa River (Rugel!); Missouri: (Luders n. 579 p.!, Tracy 

 n. 8503!, Bush n. 53, Russell, Trelease n. 228). 



19. Lespedeza simnlata Mackenzie et Bush! in Trans. Ac. Sc. St. 

 Louis XII. No. 2. 18 pi. IV. f. 1, 2 (ann. 1902), Britton in Small, Fl. S.-E. 

 U. St. 641 (ann. 1903). 



Suffrutex e radice lignosa polycephala caules plurimos erectos subsim- 

 plices vel ascendenter ramosos emittens, ad 80 cm altus, caulibus lineatis 

 breviter adpresse vel patenter pilosis dense foliosis. Folia stipulis subulatis 

 2 — 6 mm longis et petiolo nunc glabrato nunc pubescente ad 1 2 mm longo 

 et rhachi ad 10 mm longa praedita. Foliola lineari-oblonga vel anguste 

 oblongo-elliptica, utrimque rotundata, brevissime valideque mucronata, 10 

 30 mm longa et 2 — 10 mm lata, papyracea, pallide viridia, supra vix, 

 subtus subdense adpresse sericea, nervis secundariis utrimque leviter pro- 

 minulis. Racemi axillares singuli vel bini et terminales paniculati, breviter 

 pedunculati subcapitati densiflori pedunculis folio brevioribus vel aequilongis 

 cum pedunculo ad 3 cm longi; bracteae angustae ad 2 mm longae; pedi- 

 celli bracteas aequantes vel superantes ad 3 mm longi brevissime subad- 

 presse pilosi; bracteolae angustae ad 2 mm longae. Calyx profunde ultra 



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dimidium 5-fidus 5,5 — 6,5 mm longus breviter adpresse brunneo-sericeus 

 tubo 1,5—2 mm, laciniis perangustis acutissimis 4—5 mm longis, posticis 

 paullo brevioribus brevissime connatis. Corolla purpurea calycem leviter 

 tantum excedens, vexillo alas his carinam superantibus, vexillo obovato 

 apiculato minute appendicular ± 8 mm longo et ± 4 mm lato 2 mm-un- 

 guiculato alis d= 7 mm longis et 1,5 mm latis 2 — 2,5 mm-unguiculatis, 

 carina retusa ± 6 mm longa et 2 mm lata 2,5—3 mm unguiculata calycem 

 aequans. Legumen oblique lanceolatum 1 mm-stipitatum subsensim in mu- 

 cronem brevem attenuatum margine breviter subadpresse ciliatum, faciebus 

 dense adpresse sericeum, 7—8 mm longum, 3—3,5 mm latum, calycem 

 1 —2 mm excedens. Flores apetali in foliorum axillis congesti subsessiles 

 vel breviter spicati, calyce leviter tantum reducto, legumen oblique ovatum 

 subabrupte in apiculum brevem attenuatum ± 6 mm longum et 3,5—4 mm 

 latum subsessile, calycem 0,5—2 mm excedens. 



Im Sttden der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in lichten 

 Geholzen, auf felsigen Hugeln und Prarien: Missouri: Newton Co. (Bush), 



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