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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



mis. Slamina in pba- 



duas aeqiiales 



langes 



divisa. 

 1. V 



ISCIDULA, 



iE. caule prostrato, 

 gracili, visciclo-pii- 

 bescente;folio!is 7 

 obovatis ; pedunculis 



siibbifloris 



? 



lomento 



pubescente, profunda 

 iiicisura articulate. 



cate, 1 seeded. 



Sta- 



mens divided into two 

 I equal phalanxes. 



Stem prostrate, slen- 



der, 



viscidly pubes- 



cent: leaflets 7 



9 



9ob- 



ovate; pedunclesgen- 



erally 2 flowered ; pod 



the 



joints deeply notched. 



pubescent, with 



Mich. 2 p. 74. Pursh. 2 p- 485. Nutt. 2 p. 111. 



Root perennial- S^em about 3 feet long, branching. Leaves obovate^ 

 very obiusej oblique, finely reticulate. Stipules small^ ovate and acu- 

 minate. Ravemes axillr.ry, 2 — 3 floweredjlonger than the leaves. Calyx 

 almost equally 5 cleft, with 2 persistent bracteas at the base. Corolla yel- 

 low. LiAmentitm composed of two very distinct rounded joints^ hispid^ 

 conspicuously mucronate. 



Grows in sandy soils in the southern paits of Georgia. 



Flowers. 



2. UlSPIDA. ^ 



JE, caule erecto,pe- j Stem erect and with 

 tiolis-que tuberculato- the petioles hispid and 

 liijpido; foliis multiju- tubercled ; leaves in 



gis; foliolis linearibus, 



obtusis: stirxdis mem 



many pair, leaflets lin- 



; stipules 



ear 



obtuse 



membranaceous 



7 



se 



misagittate ; 



racemes 



branaceisjsemisagitta- 

 tis ; race mis simplici- 

 bus,pauci(loris; lomen- 

 tis hispidis. 



Willd. Sp. PI. 3 p. 1163. Pursh. 2 p. 485. Nutt. 2 p. Ill- 



J 



Annual. Stem 2—3 feet high, hispkl. Leaflets oval, very nume- 

 rous, Raremrs simple,few flowered, generplly bejiring a leaf. Calyx 2 lip- 

 ped, deejjlj divided, the upper lip biHd,the lower trifidjwlth the interme- 



simple, few flowered ; 

 pods hispid. 



very 



than 



