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5. Lespepeza Sruver, Norv. 
Lespedeza Stuvei, Nutt. Gen. ii, 107 (1818), 
Erect or ascending, simple and wand-like or sometimes 
slightly branched, densely velvety or downy-pubescent all over, 
2°—4° high. Stipules subulate, 2’-—3” long; petioles 
commonly much shorter than the leaves ; leaflets oval, oblong 
or suborbicular, obtuse or retuse at the apex, narrowed or 
rounded at the base, 6’’—10” or rarely 15’ long; flowers of 
both kinds in nearly sessile, axillary clusters ; corolla purple, 
2"—3" long; pod ovate-oblong, acute, 2’—3” long, downy- 
pubescent. 
Dry soil, Long Island [Wheelock] to Virginia, west to Michi- 
gan, and Missouri. 
The species is represented among the Gronovian plants at the 
British Museum by a specimen from Clayton with the following 
label: ‘“ Medicago caule erecto, vix ramoso, racemo dense 
spicato terminato, Gron. Fl. Virg. 86.” It does not seem to 
have been taken up by Linnzus. 
VaR, ANGUSTIFOLIA, N. var, 
Leaves linear or linear-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate. 
New Jersey and Southern Pennsylvania to North Carolina, 
Missouri and Texas. 
Both the species and the variety have the habit of developing 
pubescent hard obliquely ovoid bodies 1'—2” long at the 
bases of some of the leaves; these. I take to be abortive 
branches. I have observed them on JL, reticulata as well. 
It is possible that further collection and study of these two 
forms may afford characters sufficient for the recognition of the 
variety here proposed as a species, It has been suggested that 
Siuvei is a hybrid between violacea and hirta, but I see no proba- 
bility of this being true. 
6. LespepDEzA INTERMEDIA (S. Wars). 
LL, reticulata, 8. Wats. Bibliog, Index, 233 (1878) not 
Pers. 
L. Stuvei, var. intermedia, 8. Wats., in A. Gray, Man, Ed. 
6, 147 (1889). 
Hedusarum frutescens, i. Sp. Pl. 748 (1753), not Lespedeza 
Frutescens, Ell. Sketch Bot. S. C., ii., 206 (1824). 
