DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



23f 



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piloso ; racemis can- I hairy; racemes of the 

 linis pendulis, corolla- | stem pendulous, bear 

 tis sterilibus: 



pedun 

 culis radicalibus ape- 

 talis, fructiferis. Will. 



iiig petals, sterile; pe 

 duncles from the root 



without petals, bear- 



in 



fruit . 



Pursh 2; 



Journal Nat. Sci. Philada. 1. p. 373. Nutt. 2. p. 115. 

 Glycine Monoica. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1055. Mich. 2. p. 64. 



p. 485. 



Anon. Carolin. Walt. p. 188- 



Root perennial, creeping". Stem voluble, climbing over sbrubs, angu* 

 W, retrorsely hairy. Leaves ternate, ovate lanceolate, thin, hairy, sca- 

 brous on the upper surface ; common petiole 3 — 4 inches long. Stipules 

 ovate, subulate, hairy. Flowers in clustered pendulous racemes, general- 

 ly sterile. Calyx tubular, a little gibbous at base, hairy, 4-toothed, teeth 

 acuminate. Corolla white, tinged with violet, segments of the stamini- 

 ferous tube alternately long and short. Anthers oblong. Germ sheath- 

 ed at base. Legume smooth, 3 — 4 seeded. 



Besides the flowers that we have described, this plant appears to pro* 

 duce near the surface of the earth racemes, of which the flowers are on- 

 ly furnished with a calyx, and the rudiments of a style. From these pro- 

 ceed a one seeded, ovate, torulose pod, which sinks into the earth an^ 

 there ripens. I have known the plant cultivated for these subterraneom 

 pods, which were used as a vegetable for the table. 



Grows in rich liglit lands. 



flowers through the summer. 



ARMENTOSA. 



A. foliis ternatis o 



Leaves ternate, o 



vatis, 



glabris 



ra 



cemis filiformibus,sub- 



tnfloris 



etalis 



oblon 



ra* 



? 



vate, glabrous ; 

 cemes filiform, gene* 

 rally three flowered 



5 



wiiid: 



gis 



9 



floribus ap- rally three flowered ; 

 leguminibus flowers apetalous ; 

 dispermis. pods oblong, two seed- 

 ed. 



J?;'tt. 2. p. 114. 



^lycme Sarmentosa. Sp. pi. 3. p. 1055. Pursh 2. p. 485 



£jem voluble. , Xeare* ternate ; leaflets ovate, acute, 1 J m< 

 umniits of ih^ branches filiform, hanging down, bearing &om 



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