ga BIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
eften 12 inches long; flowers nearly white; legume 1- 
seeded. : 
4. * canescens. T. N. in Fras. Catal. 1813. Suffruti- 
cose, and canescently villous; leaflets proximate, subses- 
sile, ovate-elliptic, mucronulate; spikes aggregated; flow- 
ers subsessile; dentures of the calix equal, ovate, acute; . 
vexillum bright blue. Has. From the banks of Fox 
river and the Quisconsin to the Mississippi; around St. 
Louis, Louisiana, and on the banks of the Missouri 
probably to the Mountains. This speciesis nearly allied 
to A. pubescens, but larger, and much more villous, with 
shorter and morg.numerous spikes. A very elegant and 
1ental plant. Germ 2-seeded, legume 1-seeded; 
leaves almost impunctate. Mr. Pursh places his usual mark 
of v. v. to this species, although he had never seen a flow- 
ering specimen except i ac! ° 
A North ‘American ger 
491, ERYTHRINA. L. 
Calia subbilabiate, various. Vewxillum of the: 
corolla very lung and lanceolate. Legume toru- 
loses many-seeded,, 
“Small trees or shrubs; mostly aculeate, rarely herba- 
eeous; leaves ternate, pinnate; flowers mostly scarlet, in 
_subhastate, - 
: truncate; 
‘the open bushy 
e t ceous, a c te, “t% j 
; pene almost 3-lobed; stem and petiole Hd acu- 
leate; the root a tuber lurger when fall grown than an or- 
dinary Yam, and branched below; —— after the manner 
of the = genus, es scarlet, the size Cag beans. 2. 
