32 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
6. LESPEDEZA INTERMEDIA var. Hahnii, var. nov. Stem and 
branches densely hispidulous-puberulous with wide-spreading to some- 
what ascending hairs; otherwise as in the typical form. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: INDIANA: Vicinity of Bascom, August 
1906, W. L. Hahn (rype no. 609738, U. S. National Herbarium). 
The typical form of this species is so consistently appressed- 
puberulous or strigillose on the stem and branches that the form with 
spreading pubescence seems to merit recognition by name. The 
specimens examined are closely similar to typical examples of L. 
intermedia in all other features, being densely leafy, with short- 
petioled leaves of oval retuse leaflets, these strigose beneath, and 
sessile or subsessile clusters of flowers. The varietal name is given 
in memory of the collector, Dr. Walter L. Hahn, who died from over- 
exposure in 1911 while serving as naturalist for the Bureau of Fish- 
eries in the Pribilof Islands. 
7. LEsPEDEZA HIRTA var. appressipilis, var. nov. Stem and leaves 
finely pubescent with appressed hairs; leaflets obovate to oval, the 
larger 1.3-2 em. long, 5-12 mm. wide, usually retuse, mucronulate. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: FLoripa: Dry pine barrens, near Jackson- 
ville, 25 Sept. and 20 Oct. 1896, A. H. Curtiss 5780 in part (U. S.); 
dry pine barrens, Duval Co., October, Curtiss 639 (rype no. 517623, 
U. S. National Herbarium); Clarcona, Orange Co., 25 Sept. 1899, 
Marie Meislahn 62 (U. S.). 
Like its near relative L. capitata Michx., Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hor- 
nem. is a very variable species. The variety here distinguished as new, 
chiefly on the nature of its pubescence, grades into the typical spread- 
ing-pilose L. hirta through various specimens from the Southern 
States. It is also closely allied to L. angustifolia (Pursh) Ell., agreeing 
with it in pubescence and differing chiefly in its broader obovate or 
oval leaflets. No intermediate specimens connecting it with L. 
angustifolia have been seen. 
Lespedeza angustifolia var. brevifolia Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. 
Sci. 12: 68. 1893, based on material collected by Chapman in Florida, 
seems scarcely distinct enough from typical L. angustifolia to require 
recognition in nomenclature. A sheet of the type material lent from 
the New York Botanical Garden herbarium, collected at Camp- 
bellton, western Florida, by Dr. Chapman, has the leaflets of the 
middle leaves up to 2.2 em. long and 2.5 mm. wide, thus no shorter 
than is common in leaves of the middle portion of the stem in this 
species. 
