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CROTALARIA OVALIS. OVAL-LEAVED 
Hatry CRoTALARIA. 
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~ Class and Order. 
Drape.tpuiA DEcANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. bilabiatus, lab. sup. bi-, infer. 3-fido. Cor. vexillum 
cordatum, magnum, carina faleato-acuminata. Filamenta 
omnia connexa, vagina sepius superne fissa. Stylus late- 
raliter barbato-pubescens. Legumen turgidum, valvis ven- 
tricosis inflatis, sepius polyspermum, pedicellatum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Crorararia * ovalis; tota molliter hirsuta, diffusa, stipulis 
acuminatis decurrentibus vel nullis, foliis simplicibus 
ovalibus subsessilibus, pedunculis elongatis oppositi- 
foliis 4—6-floris, calycibus bibracteolatis vexillo vix 
brevioribus. 
Crorazania ovalis. Pursh, Am. Sept. v. 2. p. 469. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 125. Nutt. Gen. Am. ». 2. p. 
94. Elliott, Sketch, v. 2. p. 194. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 
v. 3. p. 238. | : 
Crorararia sagittalis, y. ovalifolia. Mich. Bor. Am. »v. 2. 
p. 5d. Boon oes: 
Croranaria rotundifolia. Poir. Encycl. v. 2. p. A02. 
Avyoxymos rotundifolia. Walt. Carol. n. 278. 
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Descr. Root perennial, according to Mr. Norra. 
Stems a foot or more long, green and herbaceous, _—_ 
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* From xporaarov, a kind of Cymbals, used by the ancient Greeks. To the 
sound of this instrument the noise of the hollow rattling pods of this Genus 
has been likened, 
