1893.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 61 



longer than the leaves, or sometimes wanting and the flowers all 

 apetalous and nearly sessile ; pods oval-orbicular, acute, pubes- 

 cent, 1;-" long. 



In dry soil, Massachusetts to Florida, west to Missouri, Ar- 

 kansas and Louisiana, 



The type is preserved in Michaux's herbarium at Paris. The 

 plant is always cons^^icuously pubescent. The leaves are larger 

 than those of L. repens, rarely showing any tendency to the 

 obovate form and never approaching the obcordate in any speci- 

 mens that I have seen. It is much commoner in southern New 

 York and New Jersey than L. repens. 



There is a fruiting specimen of a Lenpedeza in Herb. Gray, 

 collected by Chas. Wright in Texas, which I refer here with con- 

 siderable hesitation. 



Mr. Edwin Faxon has collected specimens at Muddy Pond 

 Hills, Mass., Avhich difl'er from the typical plant in their declinate 

 but not prostrate stems and narrow leaflets. 



3. LeSPEDEZA NUTTALLII, DaRL. 



Lespedeza NuttaUii, Darl. Fl. Cestr. Ed. 2, 420 (1837). 

 Lespedeza virgata, Nutt. iuT. »fc G. Fl. N. A. i. 368 (1840) not D. C. 



Erect, simple or slightly branched, more or less villous-pubes- 

 cent, 2° — 3° high. Stipviles subulate; petioles shorter than 

 the leaves ; leaflets oval, obovate or suborbicular, thickish, 

 obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or sometimes 

 rounded at the base, dark green and glabrous or nearly so 

 above, villous-pubescent beneath, 4" —20" long, 3" — 10" 

 wide ; peduncles slender, usually exceeding the leaves ; 

 inflorescence capitate, dense ; flowers purple or pink, about 

 3" long ; pod oblong, acuminate or acute at each end, very 

 pubescent, 2i^"— 3" long, sometimes only slightly exceed- 

 ing the calyx-lobes. 



Dry soil,^ Southern New England and New York to Pennsyl- 

 vania, Michigan, Kansas and Alabama. 



Authentic specimen in the Herbarium of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. The species was treated by Torrey 

 and Gray as a variety of L. Stuvei and this view was accepted 

 by Darlington in the third edition of the Flora Cestrica. In 

 my view it is abundantly distinct, being much less pubescent, 

 having slender-peduncled heads of flowers, much longer calyx- 

 lobes, and longer, strongly acuminate pods. 



