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In dry or sandy soil, Long Island to Florida, west to West 
Virginia, Minnesota, and Texas. 
The species is based on the “ Hedysarum caulibus procum- 
bentibus, racemis lateralibus solitariis, petiolis pedunculo lon- 
gioribus’’ of Gronovius FI. Virg. p. 86. There is a specimen 
with this label in the herbarium of the British Museum of 
Natural History, the label bearing in addition the following : 
‘A species of trailing Trefoil with purple and white flowers, 
two or three on each footstalk, coming forth from the wings of 
the leaves. D. Clayton ex Virginia, num. 85.”’ 
‘‘Hedysarum procumbens, Trifolii fragiferi folio, H. Elth,. 
p. 172, tab. 172, fig. 169.’ [This is erroneous. The plant of 
plate 172, Hortus Elthamensis, as shown by the figure, is not a 
Lespedeza, but apparently a species of Desmodium. It is said to 
have been raised from seeds from Ceylon. | 
Also in another handwriting, apparently written later: 
‘“Hedysarum foliis ternatis obcordatis, caulibus procumbenti- 
bus, racemis lateralibus. Linn. Syst. Gen, 793, n. 24. Sp. Pl. 
2, p. 1056, n. 30.” [This is Linnzeus’ description of the species 
in Sp. Pl. Ed. 1, p. 749 and Ed. 2, p. 1056. ] 
The plant of Linneus herbarium marked Hedysarum repens is 
not a Lespedeza at all. Smith has noted on the sheet ‘ planta 
Dill. Elth.,” but I think he was mistaken, I did not recognize 
it. But the Gronovian specimen preserved at the British Mu- 
seurn of Natural History is certainly our plant, and the type of 
the species. 
It may readily be distinguished from L. procumbens by its very 
slender, nearly glabrous stems, its equally glabrous leaves, 
which have a strong tendency to be obovate, and are commonly 
retuse or emarginate at the apex, sometimes almost obcordate. 
It seems to be of more southern range than DL. procumbens, but 
more specimens are needed to establish its geographical distri- 
bution. Its pod is usually shorter, more pubescent and less 
prominently reticulated than that of L. procumbens. 
2. Lerspepeza procumsens, Micux. 
Lespedeza procumbens, Michx. Fl]. Bor. Am. ii. 70 (1808). 
Woolly or downy-pubescent, trailing, procumbent or some- 
times ascending, stouter than the preceding species, stems 
12’—30' long. Stipules subulate; petioles commonly much 
shorter than the leaves; leaflets oval or elliptic, rarely slightly 
obovate, obtuse or retuse at the apex, rounded at the base, 
5’’—12”" long; peduncles of the petaliferous flower-clusters 
