76 BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 
passing the keel, the standard paler and less distinctly lineate; 
also, the pods are commonly smaller and more orbicular. 
*LESPEDEZA BrRITTONI! Bicknell. 
Found in much the same situations as the preceding and some- 
times growing with it but less widely spread. It is often quite 
prostrate, and on the open plains towards the south shore of the 
island forms close mats three or four feet in diameter of radiating 
and flatly interlaced stems and branches, which in August and 
September are loaded with the flowering racemes. First flowers 
Aug. 11, 1906; in full flower Aug. 29, 1904, Sept. 15-23, 1907. 
Often develops an unusual degree of dense cinereous pubescence. 
*LESPEDEZA NUuTTALLII Darl. 
Met with at only two stations: between Siasconset and Tom 
Never’s Pond, Aug. 31, 1904, the flowers rather pale pinkish white 
with the standard medially purple-lineate; and near the railroad 
about the fifth mile, Sept. 2, 1904, the flowers deeply purple- 
tinged. At both stations the plants were rather low, 3-6 dm. high, 
with unusually contracted inflorescence, which appeared capitate 
by reason of the short, densely floriferous racemes massed together 
at the end of the stem. The plants were perfectly healthy, but 
their repressed inflorescence seemed to announce that some factor 
of their environment had been unfavorable to their freest develop- 
ment. 
*LESPEDEZA STUVEI Nutt. 
A small group of plants in full flower Aug. 31, 1904, near 
Siasconset towards Tom Never’s Pond; two stations in Saul’s 
Hills, Sept. 19, 1907, the plants well fruited and with some late 
flowers. Plants 2-3 dm. high were observed in Saul’s Hills June 
8, 1908. 
*LESPEDEZA VIRGINICA (L.) Britton. 
Occasional, and locally common on the eastern half of the 
island, especially along the state road. The Nantucket plant is 
often notably pale in color from an investiture of appressed serice- 
ous pubescence densely clothing the younger parts and the lower 
surface of the leaves, and to a less extent the upper surface also. 
Flower buds barely discernible Aug. 13, 1906; in full flower Sept. 
15, 1907; last flowers Sept. 12, 1899. 
