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DIADELPHIA DECA>DRIA. 



and a half loirr. Bracteas small, ovate, acuminate, at the base of eacli 

 partial peduncle. Calyx hairy, border 5-deft, the lower segments longer 

 fhan the rest. Corolla yellow, the vexilluni twjce as long as the wings, 

 and keel. Pod coriaceous, spirally twisted, 1 -seeded. Seed reniform 



^ Grows in dry sandy soils. An exotic now completely naturalized. 

 Flowers April and June. 



2. Intertezta. 



M. peclimciilis sub- 

 ■bilioris ; Icguminibus 

 cochleatis, ovalibus 





5 



9 



Peduncles somewliat 

 2 flowered; pods spi- 

 ral, oval; prickles pu- 



bescent, 



setaceous, 



distichous, appressed; 

 stipules fringed, tooth- 



ed 



9 



le 



a 



flets 



obovate 



aculeis pubescentibus 

 setaceis, distichis, ad- 

 pressis ; stipulis cilia- 

 to-dentatis ; foliolis 

 obovatis, dentatis. 



Sp. pi. 3. p. 1411. Walt. p. 186. Pursh. 2. p. 490. 



This species with tlie M. Satlva, and M. Nigra— spring up occasion- 

 allv in our enclosures, but neither of tucm appear to be naturalizeU id 

 this country. 



toothed. 



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