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Glycine frutescens. Carolina Kidney- 

 Bean-Tree. 



Class and Order. 



Diadelpiha Decandria. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 2-labiatus. Corolla? carina apice vexillumrcflectens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Glycine frutescens ; foliis impari pinnatis novenis ovatis, 



racemis bracteatis. caule frutescente volubili. Willd. 



Sp. PL 3. p. 1067. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 298. 



Persoon. Syn. 2. p. 301. 

 Glycine frutescens ; foliis impari-pinnatis, caule perenni. 



Sp. PI. 1025. 

 Glycine frutescens ; sarmentis lignosis, foliis impari-pinnatis 



pubentibus, leguminibus coriaceis. Michaux Bor. Am. 



2, p. 63. 

 Glycine frutescens ; foliis impari-pinnatis, caule perenni, spica 



terminali alopecuroidea. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. 130. 

 Apios frutescens ; volubilis, foliis impari-pinnatis novenis 



ovatis pubescentibus, racemis terminalibus bracteatis, 



leguminibus coriaceis. Pursh. Flor. Am. Sept. p. 474. 

 Wisteria speciosa. Nuttall North- Am. Plants. 2. p. 116. 

 Phaseoloides frutescens caroliniana, foliis pinnatis floribus 



casruleis conglomeratis. Hort. Angl. 53. t. 15. 



Descr. Stem twining, shrubby. Leaves odd-pinnate : 

 leaflets, in the cultivated plant, more usually eleven, the 

 lower pair distant from the rest, and sometimes wanting, oval, 

 acute, quite entire, shining' above, pubescent and paler 

 beneath. Common petiole swoln at the base, half-rounded, 



grooved 



