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AmorPHA NANA. Dwarr Bastarp Inpico. 
EERE EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 
DiapeteHia DecanpRria. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-fidus. Cor. vexillum ovatum con- 
eavum. Ale 0. Carina 0. Legumen dispermum, falcatum. 
“Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Amorrna nana; frutex humilis glaber; foliolis ellipticis 
mucronulatis, floribus pedicellatis, dentibus calycis om- 
nibus setaceo-acuminatis, leguminibus monospermis, 
Nuttall Gen. Pl. Amer. 2. p. 91. Idem in Fraser’s 
Catal. 1813. 3 
Amorpua microphylla ; glabriuscula, pumila ; foliis brevis- 
sime petiolatis utrinque obtusis, spicis solitariis abbre- 
viatis, calycibus nudiusculis pedicellatis, dentibus omni- 
bus acuminatis, leguminibus monospermis. Pursh Flor, 
Amer. Sept. 2. p. 466. 
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An upright low shrub. Native of the woodless and grassy 
hills of the Missouri, from the river Platte to the mountains, 
where it hardly exceeds a foot in height. Flowers fragrant, 
deep purple, with exserted, golden-coloured anthers. Mr. 
Nurrauz remarks that this very humble plant is often diffused, 
like heath in Europe, over hundreds of acres in succession, 
and seems to be the only upland shrub capable of withstand- — 
ing the peculiarities of that climate. 
The calyx is two-lipped, and the two teeth of the upper lip . 
are much shorter than the three lower, but all are pointed, 
though the upper much less so. Flowers in May and June. 
Is rather tender, the young shoots generally dying back 
eyen in the green-house. 
As Mr. Nurra.t had described this plant, as well as applied 
_ the specific name of nana to it, in Fraser's em of 
ants, 
