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DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIAs 93. 
Herbaceous, rarely shrubby; leaves digitate, .in ‘a few 
species simple, stipules adnate to the base of the petiole; 
flowers. in terminal spikes, alternate or subverticillate, 
naked or bracteate. ‘ 
Species. 1. Ly perennis. 2. nootkatensis. 3. sericeus. 
Pu. 4. argenteus. Pu. 5. pusillus. Pu. Annual; small and 
very hairy; leaves digitate, leaflets (5 to 7) cuneate-oblong, 
above smooth and somewhat glaucous; flowers alternate, 
calix inappendiculate, upper lip short and bidentate, lower 
ovate-lanceolate, entire; legume 2-seeded, hirsute. Has. 
On the barren argillaceous plains of the Missouri, near 
the confluence of White river. Oss. From 4 to 6 inches 
high, growing in considerable quantities together; flowers 
bright blue, appearing in May; bractes nearly as long as 
the calix, the lower lip of which is twice the length of 
the upper, wings of the adnate at the summit; ca- 
rina resupinate ina united into a cylinder, 
anthers allt > sm ; persis~ 
tent; legume ep hiraute, ©. 5g 
6. villosus. Biennial; lanuginously villous; leaves simple, 
cblong-lanceolate, petiole and legume densely lanuginous; ~ 
ipules filiform, very long; flowers scmiveriiiate calix 
appendiculate, the upper lip bidentate, the lower undivid- 
ed. Haz. In sandy Pine forests, from South Carolina to 
Florida; rare. (Not incommon round Savannah in Georgia-} 
Ons. Decumbent; stem, petiole and stipules, thic eT 
ed with long, soft, spreading hairs; stipules 12 lines 
long, petiole 2 to 3 inches, leaf 5 or 6 inches long, cute, 
spike proportionably large; bractes subulate, deciduous, 
as long as the calix; calix conspicuously villous, produ- 
eing on either side a lateral subulate ent, (or appen- 
diculate as described by Willdenow and adopted by Per- 
soon, notwithstanding the careless assertions of Michaux 
and Pursh to the contrary;) legume 10 to 15 lines long, so 
densely lanuginous as to appear like a mass of silky wool, 
seeds smaller. than lentiles, variegated. Vexillum viola- 
ceous, towards the centre very deep brown. The figure 
in Pursh’s Flora, 2. p. 468. t. 21. appears to have been ta- 
7. * diffusus. Scriceously and closely villous; stems nu- 
merous, diffuse and decumbent; leaves simple, oblong-ob- 
ovate, attenuated downwards; petiole and stipules short 
and naked. Has. Around Wilmington, and in many other 
parts of North and South Carolina, in the barren forests of 
the Quercus Catesbei and Q. nigra. The flowers ag oes uit 
sere. reedah the 
: nil 
I have never seen; and if the plant had not occurred 
