Class XVII. Order IV. 275 



elongated, many flowered. Loments much as in the last. 

 Woods, Wnltham. August. 



HEDYSARUM NUDIFLORUM. L. Naked flowering Hedysarum. 

 Leaves ternate, roundish -ovate, acuminate; scape 

 panicled, smooth, radical ; joints of the loment round- 

 ish-triangular, somewhat smooth. Willd. 



This is a remarkable species. The flower stalk stands by it- 

 self, and seems to constitute a distinct, leafless plant. On pulliug 

 it out of the ground, the root is found to be connected with a 

 leafy stem, which is frequently at some distance from the scape. 

 Leaves at the top of the stem on long stalks, nearly smooth, 

 whitish underneath, ovate, with a short point. Scape smooth, 

 slender, longer shan the stem. Flowers purple, in a panicle or 

 raceme, on capillary stalks Woods. August. 



HEDYSARUM ACUMINATUM. Mich. Pointed Hedysarum. 



Erect, simple, leafy at top ; leaves ternate, oval, 

 long-acuminate, the odd one round-rhomboidal ; pani- 

 cle terminal, on a very long peduncle. Mich. 



A larger plant than the last, which it resembles in habit. 

 Leaves on long stalks from the top of the stem, green above, 

 paler underneath ; the side leafets ovate, the terminal one larger, 

 broad, roundish, three inches in diameter; all ending in a long 

 point. Panicle very long, proceeding from the top of the stem 

 above the leaves. Peduncles nearly glabrous, with slender, re- 

 mote branches. Flowers purple. Loments of two or three 

 slightly connected joints. These are large, triangular, rounded 

 in front, and hollowed out at top, their two posterior angles 

 very acute, the anterior obtuse. On the Concord turnpike, near 

 Fresh pond. July, August. 



HEDYSARUM CANADENSE. L. Canadian Hedysarum. 



Leaves ternate, oblong-lanceolate ; stipules filiform ; 

 flowers racemed ; joints of the loment obtusely trian- 

 gular, hispid. Willd. 



A tall, handsome species, flowering in July. Stem erect, 

 striate, hairy. Leaves ternate. Leafets long and narrow, broad- 



