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Erect, simple or branched, finely appressedpnbescent or 

 glabrate, 1°— 3° high. Stipules subulate, 2' —3" long ; 

 petioles equalling or shorter than the leaves ; leaflets oval, 

 oblong or elliptic, obtuse, truncate or retuse at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or rounded at the base, G" — 18" long, glabrous and 

 dark green above, paler and pubescent beneath ; flowers of 

 both kinds in nearly sessile, axillary clusters, generally crowded 

 towards the summit of the stem ; corolla purple, 2" — 3" 

 long ; jjod ovate-oblong, acute or mucrouate, jDubesceut, about 

 2" long. 



Dr}^ soil, Ontario and New England to Michigan, south to 

 Florida, Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas. 



I have to disagree with Dr. Sereno "Watson as to the alliance 

 of this plant with L. Stuvei. If reducable to a variety at all, a 

 position which is not here accepted, it is more nearly related to 

 L. Virginica. I have not been able to associate any available name 

 with the species older than the one given it by Dr. Watson. The 

 Linnrean Hedysai'tim frufe.iceu!< is clearly the same plant, as illus- 

 trated by the Gronovian specimen on which it is based in the 

 herbarium of the British Museum, bearing the following label, 

 which is the name cited by Linnaeus : " Hedysarum foliis terna- 

 tis subovatis, caule frutescente, Gron. Fl. Virg. 174.'' In Dr. 

 Watson's Bibliographical Index, p 233, Hedymrnm reiicidatum of 

 Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1194 is cited as an equivalent of both this 

 form and the following species, from which I distinguish it 

 primarily by its broader leaves, and while the geograj^hical 

 distribution of the two appears to be substantially the same I 

 have not seen them growing in very close proximity. 



Forms occur with flowers all petaliferous, others with all 

 apetalous and others bearing various proportions of both kinds. 



7. Lespedeza Virginica (L.). 



Medicago Virginica, L. Sp. PI. 778 (1753). 



Hedymrum reticulalum, Muhl. in Wllld. Sp. PI. iii. 1194 

 (1803). 



Lp.:^pedeza sesnili flora, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 70 (1803). 



Lespedeza reticulala, Pers. Syn. ii. 318 (1807). 



L. violacea, var. angudifolia, T. & G, Fl. N. A. i. 367 

 (1840). 



HedyHarumjanceum, Walt. Fl. Car. 185 (1788) not L. 



