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LEGUMINOSjE. (pulse family.) 
Maiildndicum, Boott. (Smooth Small-leaved T.) 
Nearly smooth throughout, slender; leaflets ovate or roundish, very 
obtuse, thin, the lateral ones about the length of the slender petiole . 
(D. obtusum, DC.) — Copses, common. Aug., Sept. — Stems 1° - 2° 
high, ascending. Leaflets 1' or smaller. Joints of the small nods 
2 or 3. r 
11. LESPEOEZA, Michx. Bush Clover. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes nearly equal, slender. Stamens dia- 
delphous (9 and 1) : anthers all alike. Pods of a single 1-seeded 
joint (sometimes 2-jointed, with the lower joint empty and stalk¬ 
like) oval or roundish, flat, reticulated. — Perennials with pin- 
nately 3-foliolate leaves, not stipellate. Stipules and bracts mi¬ 
nute. Flowers often polygamous. (Dedicated to Lespedez, the 
Spanish governor of Florida when Michaux visited it.) 
* Flowers of 2 sorts, the larger ( violet-purple) perfect, but seldom fruit¬ 
ful, paraded or clustered; with smaller pistillate and fertile but most¬ 
ly apetalous ones intermixed or in subsessile little clusters 
* Michl ' ( Trai “™ Downy Bush Clo- 
JS T^’ ? ICept the U PP er surface of ‘ he leaves, trailing, 
flw t' a r"' ° r eUiptical 5 P^ncles ^-der, mostl^ simplf 
few-flowered.- Sandy soil, commonest southward. Aug - The 
apetalous fertile flowers, as in the rest, have short hooked styles. 
2 Torr & Gr ( Tra ’ lisg Slender Bush Clo¬ 
ver.) Smooth, except minute close-pressed scattered hairs, prostrate 
sprea mg, very slender; leaflets oval or obovate-elliptical; peduncles 1 
S e i:;? ff t Wered; ^ -"dish -Dry sandy soU,1n?w 
4Mong 7 southward - Much like the last. Leaflets 
P r s - ( , CoMMON Bush Clover.) Stems up- 
hf b T 'I 5 168116,8 Varyi "S oval-oblong to 
Z ' ^ r eneath W,th c ^ ose ‘P resse d pubescence; pedun- 
te 7 r: SfeW - J T red ; POdS principal varieties 
flowers IhT EN, ’ o ° r ° blon S leaflets a "d loosely panicled 
on ned t rUnS I",! 2 ‘ SES?IL,Fl6ra > wi ‘ h the flowers principally 
on peduncles much shorter than the leaves, and clustered; and a 
re distinct form is, 3. angustifolia, with closely clustered flow- 
em le^fl^ 8 h h nCheS ’n r ° Wded ’ eaVeS ’ and narro i oblong or lin- 
a 5’: ,Ch r f en “My--Dry copses, common; The w. 
of flowers Aug. - Sept. - Pods ripening from both sorts 
rigAt.LL? V t i, . NU, J t - (Ct-^TEREt, Bush Clover.) Stems up¬ 
right spreading, bushy, downy; leaflets oval or roundish, longer than 
