66 TKANSACTIONS OF THE [JaN. 9 



Drv soil, Ontario to Florida, west to Illinois, Minnesota, and 

 Louisiana, 



This is one of the most strongly marked and easily recogniz- 

 able species. It is based on " Trifolium fruticosum hirsutum, 

 spicis oblongis pedunculatis," Gronov. Fl. Virg. 173. There 

 is a sj^ecimen of it from Kalm in the Linnsean herbarium. 



L. polystachi/a, Michx. is preserved in Herb. Michaux, and it 

 appears from the description to be the plant of Elliott. The 

 var. .'<parsiJiora, T. & G. Fl. N, A. i. 368, is a slender, more 

 glabrous plant, with loosely-flowered spikes collected by Dr. 

 Torrey at Bloomiugdale, N. Y., and preserved in his herbarium; 

 and is hardly worthy of recognition as distinct. 



Var. oblongifolia, n. var. 



Leaves oblong, obtuse at each end, 9" — 15" long, 

 2" — 4" wide, glabrate above, appressed-pubescent below ; 

 peduncles slender; spikes looser, 1' — 1}^' long; calyx very 

 pubescent, exceeding the densely pubescent pod. Pine barrens, 

 Egg Harbor, N. J., [J. Bernard Brinton]. 



This is a very well-marked form. There are four sheets of it 

 in the Paris Herbarium, two of them from Le Conte, one from 

 Lindley, and one from Torrey, although no specimen of it was 

 preserved in Dr. Torrey 's herbarium. There is an old New 

 Jersey specimen in the Gray Herbarium. I place it as a variety 

 of L. hirta on account of its long peduncles. 



9. Lespedeza capitata, Michx. 



Hedysarum frutescens, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1193 (1803) 

 not L. 



Lespedeza capitata, Michx. Fl. Boi*. Am. ii. 71 (1803). 



Lespedeza frutescens, Ell. Sketch Bot. S. C. ii. 206 (1824). 



Hedysarum umbellulatum, Walt. Fl. Car. 184 (1788) 

 not L. 



Stiff, erect or ascending, mainly simple and wand-like, silky 

 or silvery pubescent, 2° — 4° high. Stipules subulate ; leaves 

 nearl}' sessile ; leaflets oblong or oval, obtuse or acute at each 

 end, 1' — lyi' long, 3" — 5" wide ; peduncles much shorter than 

 the leaves, or the dense, globose-oblong, heads sessile in the 

 upper axils ; flowers all comi^lete; corolla yellowish-white, 

 with a purple spot on the standard, about 3" long; pod ovate- 



