1893,] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 67 



oblong, very pubescent, about one-half as long as the calyx- 

 lobes. 



Dry fields, Ontario and Vermont to Florida, west to Minne- 

 sota, Nebraska, and Louisiana. 



The type specimens are in Michaux's herbarium at Paris, but 

 the sheet on which they are mounted has a number of specimens 

 of L. angudifolia glued down on it as well. Hedysarxnn frules- 

 cens, Willd., is authenticated as this species by Torrey and 

 Gray. In my Catalogue of the Plants of New Jersey I used the 

 name L. fruiescens, but it is not available, Willdenow'sy)'»/escens 

 not being the same as the original //'u/esce/js of Linnseus. 



Var. longifolia (D,C.) T. & G. 

 Lespedeza longifolia, D.C. Prodr. ii. 349 (1825). 



L. capilata, var. longifolia, T, & G. Fl. N. A. i. 368 

 (1840). 



Leaflets linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sometimes 4' long. 



Illinois and Missouri. 



The sjiecimen in the Candollean herbarium is from "Louis- 

 iana, ex herb. Bonjean." The other specimens which I have 

 seen are from Illinois (Short), Beardstown, 111. (Geyer), Mis- 

 souri (Eggert). The var. sericea, Hook, and Arn. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 23, maintained by Torrey and Gray, Maximowicz 

 and Watson, appears to me only as a very silvery pubescent 

 state of the species, which is almost always silvery to some 

 extent. 



10. Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Ell. 



L. capilata, var. angustifolia, Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 480 



(1814). 



Lespedeza angustifolia. Ell. Sketch Bot. S. C. ii. 206 



(1824). 



L. hirta, var. angustifolia, Maxim. Act. Hort. Petr. ii. 379 

 (1873). 



' Erect, simple or branched above, slender, appressed-pubes- 

 cent, 2^ — 3° high. Stipules subulate ; leaves nearly sessile ; 

 leaflets linear or oblong-linear, rarely some of the lower ones 

 lance-linear, 1' — l}i' long, 1" — 2" wide, obtuse, truncate 

 or acutish at the apex ; peduncles elongated, usually ex- 

 ceeding the leaves ; flowers nearly as in the preceding species ; 

 pod ovate-orbicular, slightly shorter than the calyx-lobes. 



