274 C7<mXVlI. Order IV. 



has many axillary branches with small leaves and flowers. Pods 

 oval, acute, flat, one seeded. Woods. August. 



LESPEDEZA PROSTRATA. J\luhl. Trailing Lespedeza. 



Prostrate ; leaves ternate, leafets roundish-elliptical ; 

 racemes axillary ; legumes ovate, acute. 



Syn. LESPEDEZA PROCUMBENS. Pursh. 



-Stem prostrate, covered with whitish hair. Petioles, veins 

 and edges of the leaves hairy. Leafets varying from oblong to 

 orbicular. Racemes axillary, capitate, the lower ones nearly 

 Sessile, the upper ones on long capillary stalks. Woods. Rox- 

 bury. August. 



Characters drawn from the length of the peduncles are obvi- 

 ously fallacious. 



293. HEDYSARUM. 



HEDYSARUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM. Mich. Round leaved Hedy- 



sarum. 



Stem prostrate, hairy ; petioles hairy ; stipules round- 

 heart shaped, reflexed ; leaves ternate, orbicular, hairy 

 on both sides ; racemes few flowered ; joints of the 

 loment subrhomboidal. Mich. 



Stem trailing, moderately hairy. Leaves on hairy stalks, 

 leafets round, pale underneath, ciliate at the lower edge, with a 

 few fine hairs on both surfaces, from one to two inches in diam- 

 eter. Stipules of the leafets small, lanceolate ; of the leaves 

 ovate, acuminate, bent backward ; both hairy. Racemes axilla- 

 ry and terminal, few flowered. Peduncles longer than the pe- 

 tioles, nearly smooth. Flowers purple. Corolla twice as long 

 as the calyx. Loments with five or six subrhomboidal joints, 

 hispid and cohesive. Woods. Waltham. August. 

 HEDYSARUM HUMIFUSUM. Muhl. Running Hedysarum. 



Stem prostrate, subglabrous ; leaves ternate, leafets 

 ovate, slightly hairy, racemes elongated ; joints of the 

 loment subrhomboidal. 



A cospecies with the last, but altogether a smoother plant, 

 with its leafets oval or ovate and subacute. Racemes panicled, 



