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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 



Boot perennial. Leaves ternate, leaflets lanceolate and acute, entire, 

 the leaves surrounding the capitulnm, simple and a little hairy. Flowers 

 in terminal compact he^ids, closely compressed, ^vith leaves and hispid 

 hracteas,flcwers in each head numerous, though it selclom occurs that more 

 than two mature their seed. Calyx superior, somewhat 24ipped, fringed, 

 the upper Up 2-clcft, the lower 3-parted. Corolla attached to the calyx 

 yellow. Stamens monadelphous, unequal. Anthers 5 round, 5 oblong 

 ^Tomentum 1 -celled, coriaceous, hooked at the summit. 



Grows in dry sandy soils. 



Flowers May 



August. 



LESPEDEZA, Mich. 



Calyx 5-partiUis, 



Ca lyx 



5 -par 



ted 



9 



laciniis subaequalibiis. segments nearly equal. 

 Corollce carina trans- i Keel of the Corolla 



transversely obtuse. 



Pod lenticular, 



verse obtusa, Lomen- 

 turn lenticulare, in- 

 erme, 1-spermum. 



. Sessiliflora. 



L. erecta, subramo- 

 sa; foiiolis obiongis ; 

 fasciculis florum ses- 



I 



un- 



armed, 1-seeded. 





Erect, brandling, 

 leaflets oblong; clus- 

 ters of flowers nume- 



silibus, numerosis: lo- rous, sessile 



mentis calyce minuto 

 subnudatis, acutis. 



Mich. 2. p. 70. Pursh. 2. p. 480 



pods 



a 



cute, scarcely covered 

 by the minute calyx. 



stem 2 — 3 feet high, slender, sparingly branched, slightly pubescent. 

 Zicaves ternatp, elliptic, mucronate, sprinkled with hairs on the upper sur- 

 face, very hairy underneath, common petiole about an inch long. Flow 

 ers in small sessile clusters, sometimes in sraall racemes. Calyx hairy. 

 Corolla and Legi/me both longer than the calyx, corolla of a pale violft 

 colour, legume conspicuously mucronate and hairy. 



Grows in sandy lands. 



Flowers September. 



2. Stuvei. 



Nutt. 



Ij. simplex, erect a, 



Simple, erect, 



villosa 5 foliis ovali- J lous ; leaves 



vil- 

 oval j 



