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Plants glabrous or nearly so (except varieties of M. p a n i c u 1 a t a) 



Leaflets lanceolate or oblong M. ]) a n i c u 1 a t a 



Leaflets broadly ovate or oval, glaucous beneath 



M . laevigata 

 Plants pubescent 



Leaves velvety-pubescent beneath, thick and coriaceous 



R L V i r i d i f 1 o r a 

 Leaves appressed-pubescent or villous beneath and scarcely 



coriaceous M. d i 1 1 e n i i 



Loment sessile in the calyx or nearly so 



Loment joints four to seven, flowers showy; leaflets not coriaceous. . 



M. canadensis 

 Loment joints one to three 



Leaflets scabrous, i to 2 inches long M. r i g i d a 



Leaflets not scabrous, one-half to i inch long 



Plant nearly glabrous throughout ..M. marylandica 

 Stem pubescent; leaflets and petioles ciliate. AL o b t u s a 



Prostrate Tick Trefoil 



Meibomia michauxii Vail 



Plate I ro 



Stems prostrate, 2 to several feet long, softly pubescent or villous. 

 Leaves petioled; leaflets nearly orbictilar, pubescent, i to 2 inches long; 

 stipules triangular-ovate, persistent, pointed, striate. Flowers in loose 

 terminal and axillary panicles, purple, one-fourth to one-half of an inch 

 long; calyx lobes ciliated. Loment about i inch long, three to five-jointed, 

 the joints obliqtiely rhomboid below, slightly concave above, pubescent 

 with hooked hairs, on a stipe about equaling the calyx lobes or slightly 

 longer. 



Dry or sandy woods. New England and Ontario to Minnesota, Florida, 

 Missouri and Lottisiana. Flowering from Jtily to September. 



