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mote, ‘leaflets cuneate-rval, very obtuse, and on either 
side villous (1310 15); peduncles opposite to, and about 
the lengih of the leaves, mostly 3-flowered. Has. In 
Georgia and Florida —Dr. Baldwyn. Stem 2 feet, in the 
specimen before me producing only S leaves, a span apart, 
pubescence partly ferruginous, on the stem and petioles 
double, one kind more dense and shor like that of the 
leaves, the other pilose and spreading; leaf 4 or 5 inches 
Jong, leaflets an inch, and about 5 lines broad; flowers 
rple. 
5. * prostrata. Galega villosa. Mich. 2. p.67. T. chry- 
sophylla. Pu. 2.p. 489. Stem prostrate and pubescent; 
leaves: pinnate, subsessile, quihate and ternate, leaflets 
cuneate-oboval, coriaceous, smooth above, sericeously vil- 
Jous beneath; peduncles ubout 3-flowered, opposite to, 
and longer than the leaves; legume linear, and nearly 
straight. Has. Common around Savannah in Georgia, 10 
dry and sandy woods. Michaux’s name is necessarily al- 
tered in consequence of another species having been be 
~ fore named villosa. 
This genus of more than 40 species is principally indi- 
poe to India, the Cape of Good Hope, and tropical 
merica- Its affinity to Indigofera is considerable, and 
2’. tinctoria of Ceylon atfords Indigo. 
528. TRIGONELLA. £. (Fenugreek.) 
Vexillum and wings subequal, spreading, in 
the form of a tripetalous corolla, Legume often 
arcuate and mostly compressed. 
_ Herbaceous, (often annual); leaves ternate; stipules cau- 
line, small; flowers axillary und terminal, salttay, subses- 
_ Sile, or in a peduculate spike or umbell. 
Species. 1 T. * americana. Legume long and pedun- 
culate, solitary, linear, and compressed; flowers unibrac- 
teate; leaflets entire, oblong, acute, and villous; stipules 
_ obsolete. Has. On the dry and open alluvial soils of the 
Missouri, from the river Platte to the Mountains. Lotus 
ee ‘ net Fg 2. p. 489. Ons. Annual: stem erect, and 
acute. Vexillum and wings nearly equal. Legume ’ 
