BICKNELL: FERNS AND FLOWERING PLANTS OF NANTUCKET 77 
LESPEDEZA FRUTESCENS (L.) Britton. 
Infrequent. Bank near the Creeks; near Tom Never’s Pond 
and westward on the moors; Shawkemo. On the western side 
of the island it was met with only at one station, on the plains 
towards Hummock Pond. In full flower Aug. 31, 1904, Sept. 4, 
1899, abundant fruit and some late flowers; no flowers remaining 
Sept. 17, 1907. 
Probably the Lespedeza violacea of Mrs. Owen’s list. 
LESPEDEZA HIRTA (L.) Hornem. 
Not uncommon but somewhat local and not seen at all in the 
western half of the island. Frequent over the south pasture and on 
the moorland toward Siasconset; Shawkemo; Saul’s Hills; Polpis; 
Squam. Just in flower Aug. 13, 1906; in full flower Sept. 13, 1907. 
On the open moorland a form occurs—it grows also in the 
pine barrens of Long Island—in which the crowded leaves are 
densely villous-tomentose beneath and almost felted on the upper 
surface with a densely appressed soft pubescence; their petioles 
are commonly shorter than in the usual form of the plant and the 
leaflets elliptic to obovate-oblong and suborbicular; the pubes- 
cence is often notably ferrugineous. This plant is undoubtedly 
a well characterized variety, yet if it were to receive a name as 
such, consistency would require that names be given to other 
only less markedly set apart forms of this bush clover and of all 
our other species as well. 
LESPEDEZA BICKNELLII House, Torreya 5: 167. 1905. 
L. velutina Bicknell, Torreya 1: 102. S 1901. Not Lespedeza 
velutina Dunn; Hooker, Icones Pl. IV. 7: pl. 2700. F1go1. A 
native of China. 
The only abundant and generally distributed bush clover of 
Nantucket, found everywhere in dry open places, even growing 
in white sand among the beach grass along the shores. Although 
sometimes erect or ascending to a height of one or two feet, it is 
more often nearly or quite prostrate. Even the early shoots are 
often declined and in June are to be seen radiately decumbent 
Or prostrate around dead suberect stems of the preceding year. 
On Marthas Vineyard this bush clover is also the prevailing 
species, but it is there mostly erect, although on the plains some- 
