1924] Blake,—Notes on American Lespedezas 27 
U. S. National Herbarium; duplicate in the Gray Herbarium); same 
locality, 3 Oct. 1923, Blake 8653 (U. S., Gray, N. Y. Bot. Gard.); 
Point of Rocks, near Avoca, Altavista, Campbell Co., 7 Sept. 1913, 
Juliet Fauntleroy 632 (U. S.). ALABAMA: Near Mountain Home, 
Lawrence Co., 23 Sept. 1892, C. Mohr (U. S.). 
In its numerous procumbent stems, up to 125 cm. long, its dense 
short spreading pubescence, its long-peduncled racemes of petaliferous 
flowers, its flower structure, and its pods, this plant agrees with typical 
Lespedeza procumbens Michx. In that plant, as shown-by Michaux's 
1 
Fra. 1. Leaf of L. procumbens v. elliptica (Blake 8621) X 1. 
Fic. 2. Leaf of L. procumbens (Bush 40) X 1. 
original plate and by a long series of specimens, the leaflets are oval, 
not more than twice as long as wide, the larger 1.2-2.5 cm. long by 
7-15 mm. wide. No specimens really intermediate between the typi- 
cal form and the variety here described as new have been examined. 
Lespedeza acuticarpa Mackenzie & Bush, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. 
Louis 12: 16. pl. 3. 1902, from Missouri, appears to be related to L. 
procumbens var. elliptica. I have not seen the type collection, Mac- 
kenzie 449, but the specimen in the National Herbarium of Bush 67, 
the second number cited, is similar in most respects to var. elliptica. 
The plant is described as erect or suberect, while var. elliptica is 
truly procumbent or prostrate. Of later specimens in the National 
Herbarium distributed by Bush under the name L. acuticarpa, one 
sheet (Bush 6524) is L. Stuevet Nutt., while another (Bush 7886) 
is L. intermedia (Wats.) Britton. 
2. LESPEDEZA VIOLACEA var. PRAIREA Mackenzie & Bush, Trans. 
Acad. Sci. St. Louis 12: 14. pl. 1. 1902.— Lespedeza prairea Britton; 
