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FABACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



10. Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton. 

 Slender Bush-clover. Fig. 2606. 



Medicago virginica L. Sp. PL 778. 1753. 



L. sessiliflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 70. 1803. 



Lespedeza violacea var. angustifolia T. & G. Fl. N. 



A. i : 367. 1840. 

 Lespedeza virginica Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 



12: 64. 1893. 



Erect, slender, simple and wand-like or branch- 

 ed, resembling the preceding species. Leaflets 

 linear or oblong-linear, 6"-i8" long, \"-2\" wide, 

 truncate, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, 

 finely pubescent beneath, or glabrate on both 

 surfaces ; clusters of both kinds of flowers ses- 

 sile, or nearly so, crowded in the upper axils; 

 flowers violet-purple, 2,"-T," long; pod ovate, or 

 oval-orbicular, acute, or obtuse, 2" long; pu- 

 bescent, or nearly glabrous, much longer than 

 the calyx. 



Dry soil. New Hampshire to Ontario. Minnesota, 

 Arkansas, Florida and Texas. Aug.-Sept. 



9. Lespedeza f rutescens (L.) Brit- 

 ton. Wand-like Bush-clover. 

 Fig. 2605. 



Hedysarum f rutescens L. Sp. PI. 748. 1753. 



Lespedeza reticulata S. Wats. Bibliog. In- 

 dex i : 233. 1878. Not Pers. 1807. 



Lespedesa Stuvei var. intermedia S. Wats, 

 in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 147. 1890. 



Lespedeza frutescens Britton, Mem. Torr. 

 Club 5 : 205. 1894. 



Erect, simple or branched, finely ap- 

 pressed-pubescent or glabrate, i-3 

 high. Stipules subulate, 2"-^" long; 

 petioles equalling or shorter than the 

 leaves; leaflets oval, oblong or elliptic, 

 obtuse, truncate or retuse at the apex, 

 narrowed or rounded at the base, 

 6"-i8" long, glabrous and dark green 

 above, paler and pubescent beneath; 

 flowers of both kinds in short-stalked 

 or nearly sessile axillary clusters, gen- 

 erally crowded toward the summit of 

 the stem ; corolla violet-purple, 2"-$" 

 long; pod ovate-oblong, acute, pubes- 

 cent, about 2" long, much longer than 

 the calyx. 



Dry soil, Maine to Ontario, Minnesota, 

 Florida. Illinois and Texas. Aug.-Sept. 



ii. Lespedeza simulata Mackenzie & Bush. 

 Intermediate Bush-clover. Fig. 2607. 



L. simulata Mackenzie and Bush, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Louis 12 : 1 8. 1902. 



Erect, stems glabrate or short-pubescent, 3 high 

 or less. Leaflets oblong-linear to oblong-elliptic, 

 '- 2 ' long, 2"-6" wide, obtuse and mucronate at the 

 apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, appressed- 

 pubescent and more or less silvery especially be- 

 neath; spike sessile or short-peduncled, not longer 

 than the leaves, rather densely several-flowered; 

 petaliferous flowers purplish, 3"-4" long; calyx 

 densely pubescent, 2\"-z" long, nearly as long as 

 the corolla, and two-thirds as long to longer than 

 the densely pubescent ovate acute pod. 



In dry soil, Connecticut to Ohio, Missouri, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Oklahoma. Aug.-Oct. 



