212 FiKLD Columbian Muskum — BcriANV, Vol. i. 



L E G U M I N O S ^. 



Baptisla. tinctorl\ (Linn.) R. Br. 



Baptisla villosa (Walt.) Nutt. 



Baptisla australis (Linn.) R. Br. 



LupiNirs PERENNis Linn. 



Medicago sativa Linn. 



Medicago lupulin.a. Linn. 



Melilotus officinalis (Linn.) Lam. 



Melilotus alba Lam. 



TrifoliuiM arvense Linn. 



Trifolium pratense Linn. 



Trifolium repens Linn. 



Trifolium Virginicura Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:112 (1894)' 

 Tab. 75- 



Perennial from a large and long root, diffusely branched from 

 the summit of the root; branches 2 to 4 cm. long, strictly pros- 

 trate, pubescent; leaves 3-foliate, petiole 4 to 8 cm. long; leaflets 

 linear, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, i to 4 cm. long, acute or 

 cuspidate, serrate-dentate, glabrous above, more or less silky be- 

 neath, conspicuously veined; sepals ovate, conspicuous; inflor- 

 escence in terminal, globose heads, about 2.5 cm. in diameter; 

 flowers whitish, more or less crowded on slender pedicels, .2 to 

 .4, standard emarginate-mucronate, striate; calyx clothed with 

 long silky hairs, the teeth subulate, nearly half the length of the 

 corolla. Pods and seeds not seen. 



Growing on the rocky slopes of Kate's Mountain, Greenbrier 

 Co., in company with Clematis ovata. 



This species is most closely related to T. stolotiiferum by its 

 flower, but in all other respects it differs from that and all the 

 other eastern American species. 



Trifolium hybridum Linn. 



Trifolium agrarium Linn. 



Trifolium procumbens Linn. 



Cracca Virginiana Linn. Tephrosia Virginiana Pers. 



Webster Co. on an "island" in Upper Glade {Miils/>aug/i). 



RoEiNiA Pseudacacia Linn. 



Robinia hispida Linn. 



Astragalus Carolinianus Linn. 



Astragalus distortus T. & G. 



Since the publication of the Preliminary Catalogue, Dr. Gam- 

 ble has succeeded in securing fruits of this species, reported 

 generically only in that work. This is the farthest eastern exten- 

 sion of the species, which ranges, according to the manual, from 

 Illinois to Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 



Stylosanthes biflora (Linn.) B. S. P. 



Stylosanthes hamata (Linn.) Britton. 



