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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Stem 4-angled;, pubescent, branching, 2 — 6 feet longr, Leaves ip\w\^^% 

 terminating with a tendril ; leaflets generally 6 pair, elliptic, but retuse 

 and pointed at the summit, pubescent. Stipnies 2-lobed, tlie lobes. livar- 

 icate, notched, pubescent, with a black spot at the base.^ Flowers axilla- 

 ry, sessile, solitary or in pairs. Cahjx 5-cleft, segments nearly equal; cy- 

 lindrical. Sf'erf/ numerous, (about ] 0,) glabrous. 



Grows about Charleston very abundantly. 



Flowers March — June. 



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2. MiTCHELLi. Rafinesqiie. 



V. pedunculis axil- 

 laribiis, solitariis, mul- 

 tifloris; stipulis parvu- 



lis : 



r 



Peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, many flower- 

 ed; stipides small; leaf- 



folioiis plurimis | lets numerous 



lU 



i 



mu 



retuse, 



mucronate ; 



pods 2-seeded^ hairy 



(10 — 14,) lineari-lan- | 14,) linear lanceolate 

 ceolatis, retusis, 

 cronatis ; leguminibus 



dispermis, pilosis. E. 



Annual? humble. Stem very much branched and diflused over the 

 small herbage in its neighbourhood. Leaves alternate, terminating in cu* 

 trided tendrils ', leaflets numerous, (8 — 14,j small, linear lanceolate, some- 

 times cuueate, obtuse and emarginate at the summit, pointed by the pro- 

 jecting midrib. Flowers 4 — 6 near the summit of the peduncles, rather 



than an inch long, small, greyish white. Legumes small, very 

 hairy, and I believe constantly 2 seeded. 



This species, which was first noticed at New- York, by Mr. Rafinesque 

 as distinct from the V. Pusilla, grows very abundtuitly on some farms m 

 the vicinity of Charleston. 



Flowers March — April. 



3. Caroliniaxa. Walt. 



V. pedunculis mu 



1 



I 



Peduncles 



many 



tifloris, folia aeqlianti- , flowered, as long as 



bus, vel superantibus; 

 stipulis lanceolatis, in- 

 tegerrimis; foliolis 8 

 10, elliptico-lanceo- 

 !atis, pubescentibus. 



or 



ion 



er 



than the 



leaves ; stipules lance 



olate, entire 



9 



leaflets 



10, oblong lanceo- 



8 



late, pubescent 



^ 



V. Parviflora ? 



1094. Walt. p. 1 S2. Purdi. 2. p. A72 



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