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Herbaceous, rarely shrubby; leaves digitate, in a few 

 species simple, stipules adnate to the base of tlie petiole; 

 flowers in terminal spikes, alternate or subverticillate, 

 naked or brac'eaie. 



Species. 1. L. perennis. 2. noothatensis. 3. sericeiis. 

 Ph. 4. argeiiteus. Ph. 5-pnsiUus. Ph. Annual; small and 

 very hairy; leaves digitate, leaflets (5 to 7) cuneate-oblong", 

 above smooth and somewhat g-laucous; flowers alternate, 

 calix inappendiculate, upper lip short and bidentate, lov/er 

 ovafe-lanceolate, entire; legume 2-seeded, hirsute. Hab, 

 On the barren argillaceous plains of the Missouri, near 

 the confluence of White river. Oes. From 4 to 6 inches 

 big'h, growing- in considerable quantities together; flowers 

 bright blue, appearing in May; bractes nearly as long as 

 the calix, the lower lip of which is twice the length of 

 the upper, wings of the corolla adnate at the summit; ca- 

 rina resupinate, attenuated; stamina united into a cylinder, 

 anthers alternately minute; style smooth, rigidly persis- 

 tent; legume extremely pilose, hirsute. 



6. villosiis. Biennial; lanuginously villous; leaves simple, 

 oblong-lanceolate, petiole and legume densely lanuginous; 

 Stipules filiform, very long; flowers semiverticillate; calix 

 appendiculate, the upper lip bidentate, the lower undivid- 

 ed. Hab. In sandy Pine forests, from South Carolina to 

 Florida; rare. (Kot uncommon round Savannah In Georgia.) 

 Ocs. Decumbent; stem, petiole and stipules, thickly cover- 

 ed with long, soft, spreading hairs; stipules 12 to 15 lines 

 long, petiole 2 to 3 inches, leaf 5 or 6 inches long, subacute, 

 spike proportion ably large; bractes subulate, deciduous, 

 as long as the calix; calix conspicuously villous, produ- 

 cing on either side a lateral subulate segment, (or appen- 

 diculate as described by Willdenow and adopted by Per- 

 soon, notwithstanding the careless assertions of Michaux 

 and Pursh to the contrary;) legume 10 to 15 lines long, sa 

 densely lanuginous as to appear like a mass of silky \vool, 

 seeds smaller than lenliles, variegated. Vexillum viola- 

 ceous, towards tlie centre very deep brown. The figure 

 in Pursh's Flora, 2. p. 468. t. 21. appears to have been ta- 

 ken from a bad specinien. 



7. * tUffnsus. Sericeously and closely villous; stems nu- 

 merous, diffuse and decumbent; leaves simple, oblong-ob- 

 ovate, attenuated downwards; petiole and stipules short 

 and naked. Hab. Around Wilmington, and in many other 

 parts of North and South Carolina, in the barren forests of 

 the Qitercus Catesbxi and Q. ni^ra. The flowers and fruit 

 I have never seen; and if the plant had not occurred to me 

 at least a thousand times, and for several hundi cds of miles 

 so uniforn\ and distinct from L. villosus, I should not have 



