102 LEGTJMINOSJE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 
the petiole, silky or white-woolly beneath (and sometimes above); 
clusters many-flowered , crowded ; pods ovate, downy.— Dry hills, and 
sand, Plymouth, Mass., to New Jersey and southward. Also Michi¬ 
gan- — Appearing intermediate between No. 3 and No. 5. 
* * Flowers all alike and perfect , in close spikes or heads: corolla whit¬ 
ish or cream-color , with a purple spot on the banner , about the length 
of the downy calyx : stems upright , wand-like. 
5. It* hirta, Ell. (Hairy Bush Clover.) Peduncles longer 
than the leaves ; petioles slender; leaflets roundish or oval, hairy; 
spikes cylindrical , rather loose; pods nearly as long as the calyx. 
(L. polystXchia, Michx.) — Dry hill-sides. Aug., Sept. — Stem 2° -4° 
high. 
6. Ii, capital a, Michx. (Headed Bush Clover.) Pedun¬ 
cles and petioles short ; leaflets elliptical or oblong, thickish, reticulat¬ 
ed and mostly smooth above, silky beneath ; spikes short and headed; 
pods much shorter than the calyx. — Varies greatly, most of all in 
Var. angustif6lia : slender; leaflets linear; peduncles sometimes 
elongated. — Dry and sandy soil; the narrow variety only found 
near the coast and southward. Sept. — Stems woolly, 2° -4° high? 
rigid. 
12. STYLOSANTHES, Swartz. Pencil Flower. 
Flowers of two kinds intermixed in the clusters ; one sort com¬ 
plete but unfruitful, the other fertile and consisting only of a pis¬ 
til between 2 bractlets. — Calyx with a slender tube like a stalk, 
2-lipped at the summit; upper lip 2-, the lower 3-cleft. Sta¬ 
mens monadelphous : 5 of the anthers linear, the 5 alternate ones 
ovate. Fertile flowers with a hooked style. Pod reticulated, 
1— 2-jointed; the lower joint, when present, empty and stalk- 
like, the upper ovate, 1- (2-) seeded. - Low perennials, branched 
from the base, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves; the stipules 
united with the petiole. (Name composed of arvXos, ct column i 
and avOos , a flower , from the stalk-like calyx-tube on which the 
flower is raised.) 
1. S. elatior, Swartz. Tufled ; leaflets lanceolate, strongly 
straight-veined; upper stipules sheathing; heads or clusters small 
and few-flowered.—Pine barrens, Long Island and New Jersey south¬ 
ward. July - Oct— Stems 6' -12' long, wiry, often bristly. 
ers small, yellow. 
J Arachis Iivpocii, the Pea-nit, (cultivated southward) belongs 
to this tribe. 
