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longer than the leaves, or sometimes wanting and the flowers all 
apetalous and nearly sessile ; pods oval-orbicular, acute, pubes- 
cent, 114" long. 
In dry soil, Massachusetts to Florida, west to Missouri, Ar- 
kansas and Louisiana, 
The type is preserved in Michaux’s herbarium at Paris. The 
plant is always conspicuously pubescent. The leaves are larger 
than those of ZL. repens, rarely showing any tendency to the 
obovate form and never approaching the obcordate in any speci- 
mens that I have seen. It is much commoner in southern New 
York and New Jersey than L. repens. 
There is a fruiting specimen of a Lespedeza in Herb. Gray, 
collected by Chas. Wright in Texas, which I refer here with con- 
siderable hesitation. 
Mr. Edwin Faxon has collected specimens at Muddy Pond 
Hills, Mass., which differ from the typical plant in their declinate 
but not prostrate stems and narrow leaflets. 
3. LespepezaA Nurratum, Dart. 
Lespedeza Nuttallii, Dar], Fl. Cestr. Ed. 2, 420 (1837). 
Lespedeza virgata, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. N. A. i. 368 (1840) not D.C. 
Erect, simple or slightly branched, more or less villous-pubes- 
cent, 2°—3° high. Stipules subulate; petioles shorter than 
the leaves; leaflets oval, obovate or suborbicular, thickish, 
obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or sometimes 
rounded at the base, dark green and glabrous or nearly so 
above, villous-pubescent beneath, 4’’—20” long, 3’’—10” 
wide; peduncles slender, usually exceeding the leaves; 
inflorescence capitate, dense; flowers purple or pink, about 
3” long; pod oblong, acuminate or acute at each end, very 
pubescent, 214”—3” long, sometimes only slightly exceed- 
ing the calyx-lobes. 
Dry soil, Southern New England and New York to Pennsyl- 
vania, Michigan, Kansas and Alabama. 
Authentic specimen in the Herbarium of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural Sciences. The species was treated by Torrey 
and Gray as a variety of Z. Stuvei and this view was accepted 
by Darlington in the third edition of the Flora Cestrica. In 
my view it is abundantly distinct, being much less pubescent, 
haying slender-peduncled heads of flowers, much longer calyx-. 
lobes, and longer, strongly acuminate pods. 
