DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



189 



latis 



9 



spiels aggrega- I on petioles ; 



tis,eIongatis;caIycibus long, clustered 



spikes 



nudiusculis, pedicella- lyx naked, 



? 



ca 



tis, dentibus 4 obtu 



pedicel 



late, with 4 teeth ob 



SIS, unico acummato ; tuse and one acumi 



leguminibus 

 spermis 



oligo- 



nate ; pods few seed 

 ed. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 970. Walt. p. 179- Mich. 2. p. 64. Pursh 2. p. 46G. 



A slinib 10—16 feet high, with its young expanding branches very pu- 



bescent. 



Leajlets 



obtuse, sonictnnes slightly emarginated with a short point, pubescent 

 t lowers clustered, in terminal racemes. Racemes 4—6 inches long, gen- 

 erally by threes. Calt/x persistent, slightly pubescent, turbinate, border 

 short and 5-cleft, the lower segment acuminate, longer than the rest, the 

 two lateral acute, the upper ones broad and obtuse- Vexillum of the co- 

 rolla obovate, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx, dark purple. Filaments 

 10, unequal, longer than the corolla, purple, monadelphous. Anthers yel- 



Grows along the margins of rivers, very common in what are called in 

 inis country, tide lands, 

 flowers in April. 



2. 



UBESCENS. 



• humilis, frutes 

 ^cns ; foiiis brevissiin( 



petiolatis, utrinqiie ob 

 tusis, pnbescentibus 

 fPJcis paniculatis. 



Ion 



e 



gatis 



pubescent 



Small, shrubby ; 

 leaves on very short 

 petioles,obtuse at each 

 end, pubescent; spikes 

 long, panicled, pube 



busj calycibus subses 

 siiibus, dentibus 



nibus 



om 



acuminatis 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 970. 



^' nerbacea. 



cent 



caly 



nearly 



sessile, with the teeth 

 all acuminate. 





Pursh 2. p. 4G7. 



A p -.7 ^^aJt. 179. Nutt. 2. p. 91. 



^•Pumda. Mich. 2. p. 64. 



bescenf.^'f ",• ^l^*^'' slirubby than herbaceous, 2—4 feet high. Stem 



^at hoa 



Otuse mucronate, with pellucid dots, very pubescent and some- 

 y. Ca?yx purple, the segments nearly equal. Vexillum of the 



