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Erect, simple or branched, finely appressed-pubescent or 
glabrate, 1°—3° high. Stipules subulate, 2”—3"” long ;. 
petioles equalling or shorter than the leaves; leaflets oval, 
oblong or elliptic, obtuse, truncate or retuse at the apex, nar- 
rowed or rounded at the base, 6’—18" long, glabrous and 
dark green above, paler and pubescent beneath ; flowers of 
both kinds in nearly sessile, axillary clusters, generally crowded 
towards the summit of the stem; corolla purple, 2’—3’” 
long ; pod ovate-oblong, acute or mucronate, pubescent, about 
2” long. 
Dry soil, Ontario and New England to Michigan, south to 
Florida, Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas. 
I have to disagree with Dr. Sereno Watson as to the alliance 
of this plant with Z. Stuvei. If reducable to a variety at all, a 
position which is not here accepted, it is more nearly related to 
L. Virginica. Ihave not been able to associate any available name 
with the species older than the one given it by Dr. Watson. The. 
Linnean Hedysarum frutescens is clearly the same plant, as illus- 
trated by the Gronovian specimen on which it is based in the 
herbarium of the British Museum, bearing the following label, 
which is the name cited by Linneus: ‘ Hedysarum foliis terna- 
tis subovatis, caule frutescente, Gron, Fl. Virg. 174.” In Dr. 
Watson’s Bibliographical Index, p 233, Hedysarum reiiculatum of 
Willd. Sp. Pl. iii, 1194 is cited as an equivalent of both this 
form and the following species, from which I distinguish it 
primarily by its broader leaves, and while the geographical 
distribution of the two appears to be substantially the same I 
have not seen them growing in very close proximity. 
Forms occur with flowers all petaliferous, others with all 
apetalous and others bearing various proportions of both kinds. 
7. Lesprpeza Virernica (L.). 
Medicago Virginica, L. Sp. Pl. 778 (17538). 
Hedysarum reticulatum, Muhl, in Willd. Sp. Pl. in. 1194 
(1803). 
Lexsvedeza sessiliflora, Michx. Fl, Bor. Am. ii. 70 (1808). 
Lespedeza reticulata, Pers. Syn. 11. 318 (1807). 
L. violacea, var. angustifolia, T. & G. Fl, N. A. 1. 367 
(1840). 
Hedysarum junceum, Walt. Fl. Car. 185 (1788) not L. 
