pedicellis calyce brevioribus; calycis corolla purpurea duplo brevioris la- 

 ciniis anguste lanceolatis acuininatis; carina vexillo alisque subaequiloD- 

 gis; leguminibus florum petaliferorum rarioribus calyce duplo longioribus. 

 apetalorum in axillis vulgo fasciculato-subsessilium calycem plus duplo 

 fere triplo snperantibus, omnibus rotundatis subito mucronatis planis re- 

 ticulars minute pubescentibus. — Hedysarum repens, L. Cod. 5524. 



(excl. syn. Dillen.). — Lesped. procumbens, Michx. Fl. II. 70. 



t. 39. - Torr. et Gray 1. c. 366. — L. prostrata, Pursh. Fl. 



II. 481. — Hedys. prostratim, Miihlbg. in Willd. Spec. III. 



1200. — Hedysarum caulibus procumbentibus cet. Gronov. Fl. 



Virgin, ed. I. 86. 



«• Villosopubescens, floribus 6—7 mill longis.— L. procumlens, 

 T. et Gr. 1. c. 



Hab. in America boreali, a Massachusets ad Louisianam, exanctt. 

 cUt. —Ipse vidi e New- Jersey (hb. Mertens et Bentham). 

 New-York (A. Gray!), Delaware (Nut tall!), Pennsylvania 

 (Poeppi'g!); Kentucky, Lexington ad Red river (Gr i s wold!), 

 ecivitat. meridionalibus (A. Gray!}: in fruticetis Virginiae (B e y- 

 rich!), prope Portsmouth (Rug el!), Louisiana, Augusto 1 

 (Lhotzky!), nee none Texas, Houston (Lin dhe,i me .r!) et in mon- 

 tibus lapidosis Rusk-county, Julio fl. (Vinzent! As 43. a.). 



0. Plus minus glabrata, floribus 5—7 mill. longis.—L. prostrate 

 Pursh. 



Hab. in America boreali, a Canada superiore (Hooker) ad 

 Louisianam (ex Torr. et Gray). - Vidi e New Jersey (Bentham 

 commun.), New -York (A. Gray!) Monmouth county (Knieskern!), 

 Delaware (Nuttall!), Pennsylvania prope Pittsburgh (un.itin. 1832)- 

 Virginia prope Norfolk (Rugel!), Georgia, in fruticetis et graminosis 

 (Beyrich!), Alabama (Hooker!), in moniibus Apalachicis (Baf»- 

 nesque!), Texas, Rusk county (Vinzent! tf° 43. b.) et loco specif 

 nonadn^toaTorrey, Hooker, Engelmann missain et in * 

 rtensiano. 



