leaflets lanceolate, pointed, the lateral on short footstalks 

 the middle one on longer. Stipules intrafoliaceous, lanceo- 

 late, erect, pressed close to the stalk. Peduncles very long; 

 iour-sided, terminal. Spikes ovate, lengthening as the flowers 

 open. Bractes ovate acuminate, ciliated, deciduous Tube 

 ©t the calyx almost globular, 5-toothed : lower tooth longest 

 Corolla, as well as the bractes, of a pale violet colour -the 

 vexilum and ate nearly equal: carina shorter by half, two 

 petaled, dark purple. Legumen one-seeded. 



Mr. NuTTALL, chiefly on account of the absence of glands 

 and the small size of the carina, refers this to Tournefort's 

 genus Melilotus ; but as it has as many of the characters of 

 Fsoralea, and may, as Mr. Nuttall allows, be considered 

 as a connecting link between the two genera, we rather retain 

 it in the latter genus, to which it has already been referred by 

 Michaux, Persoon, and Ventenat. 



It does not appear that this very rare plant has ever been 

 known m our gardens till introduced by Mr. John Fraser, 

 ot bloane-Square to whom we are indebted for an opportu- 

 nity of giving a drawing of it, as it is not to be found in the 

 catalogues ot the Kew or Cambridge gardens, nor in Mr. 

 Sweet s excellent Hortus Suburbanus 



Native of North America, from Carolina to Florida, also 

 of the open forests ot Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Is 

 tf lCie fy ^J *> bear our winters unprotected. 

 * lowers in August, and continues long in blossom 



