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DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA, 103: 
With Presculenta, which it somewhat resembles, but is co- 
vered with a soft, white, and silky villus, but not tomen- 
tose. Spikes axillary, (after the manner of the genus, as it 
appears in North America,) about from 6 ta 10-flowered, 
flowers small, bright azure blue. ‘Che whole plant about 
12 inebes high and rarely branched. Flowering in July. 
P. argophylla, Pr, 2. p. 475. : 
5. tenuiflora, Pu. Nearly smooth, and everywhere con- 
spicuously punctate: stem diffusely and slenderly branch- 
ed: leaves ternate, leafiets oblong-elliptic, obtuse; racemes 
filiform, few-flowered; calix nearly equal; bractes 3-flow- 
cred, shorter than the pedicells; root flagellately. fusi- 
form. Has. On the plains of the Missouri, nearthe Ari- 
karee village: rare. Ons. Habit or mode of vegetation 
similar to Baptisia tinctoria. Stem about 2 feet high, 
slenderly pubescent; leaflets about 5 lines long, thick, 
opaque, and copiously punctured, slightly pubescent: be- 
neath; racemes 2 or 3 inches long, axillary, interrupted, 9 
to 12 or more flowered, growing by  3’s, very small and 
pale purple; calix in this and the following more nearly 
s equal than in any other species; bractes_ persistent. 
6. *arenaria. Neariy smooth, stem dichotomous, spa- 
ringly branched, erect; leaves ternate, leaflets linear-sub- 
lanceolate, obtuse, and mucronulate; peduncles longer 
than the’ es; spikes. e, many-flowered, bractes 
deciduous; dentures of the calix minute, obtuse, nearly 
equal; root repent. Has. On the sandy banks of the.Mis- . 
souri, from the river Platte to the Mountains. Flower- 
ing in July and August. P. lanceolata. Pu. 2. p.475. P. 
etiptica, of the same, in Suppl. 2. p,. 741. Ozs. Growing 
in great quantities together, sending up shoots in every d 
reciion through the sand, in which soil it is exclusivt 
met with. Stem about a foot; leaves aromatic when br 
ed, attenuated downwards, more than an inch long, 
pules linear; flowers. pedicellate, small and numerous, 
pale purplish blue; dentures of the calix obtuse, and glan- 
7. Lupinelius. Very smooth; leaves digitate, upon long 
cemes pedunculate, much ee than the leaves, (axilia- 
ry) many-flowered; bractes 1-fowered, shorier than the — 
neles; lower denture of the calix produced, legume — 
Has. From South Carolina to Florida; rare. 
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