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6. D. Tweedyi Britton. Minutely scabrous-pubescent: stem stout, ascending, 
9 dm. or more high: leaflets ovate, truncate at base, obtuse and mucronulate, upper 
surface glabrate, lower scabrous-pubescent and strongly reticulated, 9cm. long: pan- 
icle large and few-flowered: pod 3-jointed (in the only specimen seen), joints rloim- 
bic, minutely canescent.—Tom Greene County ( Tweedy). 
27. LESPEDEZA Michx. (BUSH CLOVER.) 
Herbs with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, not stipellate, diadelphous 
(9 and 1) stamens, and a 1-jointed 1-seeded oval or roundish flat retic- 
ulated pod.—Ours have flowers of two sorts, the larger (violet-purple) 
pertect but seldom fruitful, panicled or clustered, with smaller pistil- 
late and fertile but mostly apetalous ones intermixed or in sinall sub- 
sessile clusters. 
1. L. procumbens Michx. Slender, trailing and prostrate, minutely appressed- 
hairy to soft-downy: leaflets oval or obovate-elliptical, 6 to 18 mm. long: peduncle 
very slender, few-flowered: pod small, roundish, obtuse or acute. (Including L. re- 
pens Bart. )—Found in Gillespie and Wilson Counties, aud doubtless throughout the 
eastern part of the State. 
9 L. Stuvei Nutt., var. INrERMEDIA Watson. Stems upright, spreading, very 
leafy: leaflets oval to oblong, usually with fine appressed-pubescence : flowers clus- 
tered on peduncles much shorter than the leaves: pod ovate, acute or acuminate, 
appressed-pubescent or downy. (LE. violacea, var. sessiliflora Torr. & Gray.)—‘‘Cen- 
tral Texas” (fide Mex. Bound Report). 
28. VICIA Tourn. (VeETCcH. TARE.) 
Herbs, mostly climbing more or less by the tendril at the end of the 
pinnate leaves, with half-sagittate stipules, axillary flowers on pedun- 
cles, a filiform style bearded with a tuft or ring of hairs at the apex, 
and a flat several-seeded pod. 
* Annuals, with mostly solitary flowers. 
1. V. Reverchoni Watson. Pubescent with spreading hairs, the decumbent stem 
angled and narrowly winged, 3 dm. high: leaflets 3 or 4 pairs on a broad rhachis, cu- 
neate-oblong or the lower obovate, rounded or truncate and mucronate at apex, 8 to 
14 mm. long: flowers solitary, small, 6 mm. long, light blue, the narrow acuminate 
calyx-teeth about equaling the tube: pod pubescent, shortly pedicellate upon a pe- 
duncle 2.5 em, long or more, 20 to 80 mm, long by 4 mm. broad, 10 to 15-seeded.—Sandy 
prairies near Dallas (Reverchon). 
2, V. exigua Nutt. Pubescent, somewhat cespitose: leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, linear, 
acute, 12 to 24 mm. long; stipules narrow, entire or incisely serrate: peduncles filiform, 
1 (rarely 2)-flowered, shorter than the leaves: calyx-teeth lanceolate, nearly equal- 
ing the tube: pod linear-oblong, glabrous, 4 to 6-seeded.—A western species reported 
from near El Paso and San Diego, 
8. V. micrantha Nutt. Glabrous: leatlets usually 2 pairs, linear, obtuse or acute, 
about 2.5 em. long; stipules lanceolate: peduncles | or 2-flowered, shorter than the 
leaves: calyx-teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube: pod saber-shaped, slightly 
pubescent, 7 to 10-seeded.-—In eastern ‘Texas, and very likely within our range. 
** Perennials, with 2 to 6-flowered peduncles. 
4. V. Leavenworthii Torr. & Gray. Pubescent: stem 3 to 6 dm. long, strongly 
angled : leaflets5 to 7 pairs, oblong-linear, obtuse or emarginate, 12 mm. long ; stipules 
minute, entire: peduncles 2 to 4-flowered, shorter than the leaves: calyx-teeth sub- 
