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42 o FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



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T. hispiditla is a slenderer stemmed, straggling species, 2 

 feet high or less. 2 to 4 purplish tlowers in a spike whose 

 peduncle is longer than the leaves. 



These 2 species are Southern plants, growing in dry soil from 

 Delaware and Virginia to Florida. 



23. Bush-clover 



Lespedeza procumbens. — Family, Pulse. Color, purple. 

 Leaves, of 3 leaflets. Time, August and September. Corolla, 

 papilionaceous. Flowers, of 2 kinds. The larger, growing in 

 panicles or clusters, are not so fertile as the smaller, which 

 are mixed with the others along the stem and branches. The 

 latter are usually without petals. The pods have i or 2 joints, 

 with a single seed in the upper. The lower joint is generally 

 seedless. Stems, 12 to 30 inches long. 



A fine-leaved plant, trailing and vine-like, growing in sandy 

 soil. 



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L. violdcea is commonly found along the margins of pine 

 and oak woods. The flowers are bright purple, on upright, 

 slender stems. The leaflets are small, thin, i to 3 feet high. 



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L. reticulata has thicker stems, more leaves, and flowers 

 closer together. Same height as the last. 



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L. Stuvei is covered with down, very leafy, with roundish 

 leaflets and numerous purple tlowers, crowded like clover blos- 

 soms into long heads. Two or three species have white and 

 purple corollas ; among them are — 



