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LEGUMINOSJE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 
bluntish, pale beneath; raceme few-flowered, terminal. — Woods, W. 
New York and Penn, to Ohio. Aug. — Slender, smoothish, 8'-15' 
high : leaflets much as in No. 1. 
* * Stems prostrate: stipules ovate , pointed , persistent: pods short- 
stalked., of 3-5 joints. 
4. D. hlimifusura, Beck. (Running T.) Smoothish; leaf¬ 
lets ovate or oval; stipules ovate-lanceolate ; racemes axillary and ter¬ 
minal ; pods slightly sinuate along the upper margin, the joints ob¬ 
tusely triangular. — Woods, near Boston (Waltham, Greene ), and 
Penn., rare. Aug. — Resembles the next. 
5. I>. lotlindifoliiim, DC. (Round-leaved Running T.) 
Hairy all over ; leaflets orbicular, or the odd one slightly rhomboid ; 
stipules large , broadly ovate; racemes axillary and terminal (few- 
flowered); pods almost equally sinuate on both edges; the joints 
rhomboid-oval. — Dry rocky woods. Aug. —Stems extensively trail¬ 
ing, usually very hairy. 
* * * Stems (tall) erect: stipules and ( deciduous ) bracts large and con¬ 
spicuous , scale-like, finely striate : pods of 4-7 inequilateral joints 
which are longer than broad. (Flowers large.) 
6. I>. €anadcnse y DC. (Canadian T.) Stem straight and 
wand-like, bristly-hairy ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, bluntish, many 
times longer than the petwles ; stipules lanceolate or awl-shaped, about 
the length of the petiole; racemes dense, erect, in a terminal panicle; 
joints of the pod half oval and triangular.—Woods, most common 
northward. Aug. — Stem 3P- 6° high, usually simple. Petioles re¬ 
markably short (i'-i'). The stipules are much narrower than in the 
two following, and not very persistent; but the ovate pointed bracts, 
as in those, are large and very conspicuous in the bud. 
7. I>. canescens, DC. (Rough-hoary T.) Stem loosely 
branched, hairy; leaflets ovate, bluntish, about the length of the petioles 
whitish and reticulated beneath , both sides roughish with a close-press- 
e fine pubescence; stipules broadly ovate, persistent; joints of the 
P<H J »!? 1 V neqUal,y rhomboidal. — Moist grounds, Vefmont to Penn, 
and Michigan. Aug. — Branches clothed with minute and hooked, 
and long spreading rather glutinous hairs, and the fine, partly hooked 
pubescence of the leaves causes them to adhere to cloth, &c. 
®USpid4tunij Torr. & Gr. (Sharp-pointed T.) Very 
smooth ; stem straight; leaflets, as well as the large bracts and persist¬ 
ent stipules, lanceolate-ovale and taper-pointed; racemes loosely pani- 
cled ; joints of the pod rhomboid-oblong. — Thickets. July. — Stem 
rather simple. Leaflets green both sides, 3'-5' long. Bracts and 
stipules j|^ long. 
* * Stems erect: stipules and bracts small and inconspicuous , 
deciduous: racemes panicled . 
