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Dry soil, Ontario to Florida, west to Illinois, Minnesota, and 
Louisiana, 
This is one of the most strongly marked and easily recogniz- 
able species. It is based on “Trifolium fruticosum hirsutum, 
spicis oblongis pedunculatis,” Gronoy. Fl. Virg. 173. There 
is a specimen of it from Kalm in the Linnean herbarium. 
L. polystachya, Michx, is preserved in Herb. Michaux, and it 
appears from the description to be the plant of Elliott. The 
var. sparsiflora, T. & G. Fl. N. A. i. 368, is a slender, more 
glabrous plant, with loosely-flowered spikes collected by Dr. 
Torrey at Bloomingdale, N. Y., and preserved in his herbarium; 
and is hardly worthy of recognition as distinct. 
VAR. OBLONGIFOLIA, . var, 
Leaves oblong, obtuse at each end, 9’—15” long, 
2"—4" wide, glabrate above, appressed-pubescent below ; 
peduncles slender; spikes looser, 1/—11%4' long; calyx very 
pubescent, exceeding the densely pubescent pod. Pine barrens, 
Egg Harbor, N. J., [J. Bernard Brinton]. 
This is a very well-marked form. There are four sheets of it 
in the Paris Herbarium, two of them from Le Conte, one from 
Lindley, and one from Torrey, although no specimen of it was. 
preserved in Dr. Torrey’s herbarium, There is an old New 
Jersey specimen in the Gray Herbarium, I place it as a variety 
of L. hirta on account of its long peduncles. 
9. Lespepeza caprraTa, Micux. 
Hedysarum frutescens, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1193 (1803) 
not L. : 
Lespedeza capitata, Michx. Fl]. Bor. Am. ii. 71 (1803). 
Lespedeza frutescens, Ell, Sketch Bot. S. C. ii. 206 (1824). 
Hedysarum umbellulatuum, Walt. Fl. Car. 184 (1788) 
not L. 
Stiff, erect or ascending, mainly simple and wand-like, silky 
or silvery pubescent, 2°—4° high. Stipules subulate; leaves 
nearly sessile ; leaflets oblong or oval, obtuse or acute at each 
end, 1’/—114' long, 3’—5" wide ; peduncles much shorter than 
the leaves, or the dense, globose-oblong, heads sessile in the 
upper axils; flowers all complete; corolla yellowish-white, 
with a purple spot on the standard, about 3" long; pod ovate- 
