DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 



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Perennialj much branched, running over shrubs 8 — 10 feet high. 

 Leaves terminating with a 3-cleft tendril ; leaflets 8 — 10, elliptic or ovate, 

 generally obtuse. Flowers very numerous^ on long peduncles. 

 hairy, segments short and obtuse. 



Calyx 



Corolla white, the vexillum marked 

 with a black spot. The Legume somewhat falcate, mucronate. Seeds 

 numerous, small. 

 Grows in damp rich soils, frequent along the margins of swamps. 



Flowers April. 



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CUTIFOLIA- 



E. 



V. pedimculis paii- 



cifloris, folia siiperan- 

 tibusj stipulis lanceo- 



latis, integris; foiiolis 



paucis (6) line ari bus, 



iitriiique aciitis; caule 



glabro. 



Peduncles few flow- 



ered, 



longer 



than the 



leaves; stipules lance- 

 olate, entire ; leaflets 



few (6) linear, acute 

 at each end; stem gla- 

 brous. > 



Perennial ? 



Stem glabrous, somewhat angled, running over small 



shrubs 2 — 3 feet high. Leaves terminating in a tendril, generally undivi- 

 ded; leaflets 3 pair, sessile, glabrous, 10 — 15 lines long, very acute. 

 Flowers few in my specimens, not exceeding 5 on the long peduncles, 

 tapper lip of the Calyx nearly truncate. Corolla white. Legume gla- 

 brous, very slightly falcate, mucronate, many seeded. Seeds small. 



Grows in Scriven county, Georgia. 



Flowers April — May. 



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PHACA. Gen. Pl. 1378. 



Stylus 

 Stig 



Carina obtusa 



Keel obtuse. Style 



imberbis. unbearded. Stigma 



ma 



capitatum. capitate 



Pod infla 



Legumen semibilocu- I ted, semibilocular. 

 Jare, inflatum. 



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ILLOSA. 



P. subacaulis, pilo- I Humble,very hairy; 



; pedun 



sissima; foiiolis ovali- leaflets oval 

 ^us : pedunculis folia cles as Ion 



^"•^ 5 pcuuncuii 



subaequantibiis 



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