47 S 



MEGANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



spots at base. Stamens 6 fertile, 4 sterile. Germ pubescent. Ltt 

 gume coriaceous, manj seeded (30—50). Seeds uearly ovalj com-* 

 pressed. 



This plant has very rarely 3 pair of leaflets on each leaf, yet I know 

 flf no other species to which the C, Caroliniana of Walter can be re- 

 ferred. 



Grows around buildings. Very common. 

 Flowers July — October. ' 



Styptic -weed. 



3. Linearis. Mich. 



C 



glabi 



J 



) 



i ; foliis 5 

 ovatis, aciitis ; 



6 

 pe 



Glabi 



leai 



dunculis axillaribus, pau 



cifloris ; 

 retibus. 



legu minibus 

 E. 



te- 



or 6 pair, ovate, acute ; 

 peduncles axillary, few 

 flowered ; 

 rete. 



leg 



te 



Mich. I, p. 261. Pursh, 1. p. 306. 



Very similar in habit and appearance to the preceding species. 

 Leaves rather smaller, acute rather than acuminate, with a gland at 

 the very base of the petiole. Racemes axillary, few flowered (2—4). 

 Legumes terete, somewhat curved, nianj seeded. 



Michaux' name for this species is certainly not appropriate ; its 

 terete legume is its only valid character, and would have supplied ai 

 unexceptionable name. 



Grows 



Michau 



old garden, near Charleston, and know not where he first discovered 



it 



Flowers August 



Octobe 



r. 



I 



4. LiGUSTRlNA. 



C. pubescens : foliis 7 



jugis, lane 

 minoribus 



9 



peduncul 



termmalibus, subpanicu 

 latis; leguminibus oblon 

 gis, subfalcatis. ' Pursh, i 

 p. 306. 



Pubescent ; leaves in 

 7 pair lanceolate, tlie 

 exterior one smallest; pe- 

 duncles terminal, some- 

 what paniculate ; legumes 

 oblong, slightly falcate. 



Sp, pi. 



p. 523. 



Leav 

 petiole. 



flabrous, hairy along 

 jinn. 



Gland at the base of the 



Grows in cultivated ground, from Virgioia to Georgia. 

 Flowers July— August. ^ 



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