17 Class XVII. Order IV. 



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 axil- 

 lary and terminal, few flowered. Peduncles longer than the 

 petioles, nearly smooth. Flowers purple. Corolla twice as 

 long as the calyx. Woods. -Waltham. August. 



HEDYSARUM NUDIFLORVM. L. Naked flowering Iledysarum. 



Leaves ternale, roundish-ovate, acuminate ; 

 scape panicled, smooth, radical ; joints of the lo- 

 meiit roundish-triangular, somewhat smooth. WillA. 



This is a remarkable species, The flower stalk stands by 

 itself, and seems to constitute a distinct, leafless plant. On 

 pulling 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 than the stem. Flowers purple, in a 

 panicle or raceme, on capillary stalks. Woods. -August. 



HEDYSAKUM AUUMIMATLM. Mich. Pointed Hedysarum* 



Erect, simple, leafy at top ; leaves tern ate, 

 oval, long-acuminate, the odd one round-rhomboid- 

 al ; panicle 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 larg 

 er, 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 slen- 

 der, remote branches. Flowers purple. Loments of two or 

 three slightly connected joints. These are large, triangular, 



