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Erect, slender, simple and wand-like or branched, resem- 
bling the preceding species. Leatlets linear or oblong-linear, 
6”—18”" long, 1’—2%%4” wide, truncate, obtuse or some- 
times acute at the apex, finely pubescent or glabrate on both 
surfaces ; clusters of both kinds of flowers sessile, crowded in 
the upper axils; pod ovate, acute, 2” long, pubescent or 
nearly glabrous. 
Dry soil, Massachusetts to Minnesota, south to Florida, dnd 
Texas. 
This is based on “ Medicago caule erecto ramosissimo, flor- 
ibus fasciculatus terminalibus,’’ Gron. Fl. Virg. 86. This type 
is preserved in the herbarium of the British Museum of Natural 
History. Linneus cites as a synonym “Loto affinis trifoliata 
frutescens glabra, Pluk. Mant. 120,” but the specimen of this 
preserved among Plukenet’s plants, also at the British Museum 
of Natural History, is Z. capitata, Michx. 
The type of Hedysarum reticulatum is a plant sent by Muhlen- 
berg to Willdenow. I have not seen it, but it was evidently 
seen by either Dr. Torrey or Dr. Gray as the reference to Will- 
denow’s name in the Flora of North America is followed by an 
exclamation mark. 
Lespedeza jsessiliflora, Michx. is preserved in Herb. Michaux. 
Persoon’s L, reticulata I have not seen, but his description is 
satisfactory. Hedysarum junceum, Walt. is not preserved in 
Walter’s Herbarium at the British Museum of Natural History. 
The calyx teeth of the petaliferous flowers of this species are 
quite long, sometimes equalling the pod. 
8. LesprepEza uirta (L.) Ext. 
Hedysarum hirtum, L. Sp. Pl. 748 (1753). 
Lespedeza polystachya, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer, ii. 71 (1803). 
Lespedeza hirta, Ell, Sketch Bot. S, C. ii. 207 (1824). 
Erect or ascending, rather stout, generally branching above, 
villous or silky-pubescent, 2°—4° high. Stipules subulate, 
1”"—2%" long; petioles shorter than the leaves; leaflets 
oval or suborbicular, obtuse at each end, sometimes emarginate 
at the apex, 6'—2’ long; peduncles elongated, usually 
much exceeding the leaves; heads oblong, rather dense, 
%'—114' long ; flowers all complete ; corolla yellowish-white or 
the standard purple spotted, about 3” long; pod oblong, 
acute, very pubescent, about equalling or slightly exceeding the 
calyx-lobes. 
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