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HAB, Woods.. Penn. to Car. Aug. If. A small and slender 

 species about 2 feet high. Flowers small, violet, in a slender 

 branched panicle. 



8. D. Iccvigatum DC Cand. : stem simple, erect, smooth, somewhat 

 glaucous ; leaves ternate, on long petioles ; leafets ovate, acute ; 

 panicle terminal ; flowers in pairs, on long pedicels ; bracts ovate, 

 acute, shorter than the flower buds ; lower segment of the calyx elon- 

 gated : joints of the legume triangular. Hedysarum Icevigatum Nutt. 



HAB. Woods. N. J. to Car. Aug. 2J..Stem 34 feet high. 

 Flowers purple. The smoothest of the North American species. 



9. D. bracteosum De Cand. : stem erect, smooth ; leaves ternate ; 

 leafets oblong-oval, acuminate, smooth ; stipules subulate ; racemes 

 terminal, few-flowered ; bracts ovate, acuminate, striate, glabrous ; 

 legume with suboval joints. Hedysarum bracteosum Mich. 



b. cuspidatum De Cand. : leafets scabrous on the margin ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate ; joints of the legume reticulate, glabrous, 

 pubescent on their margins. Hedysarum cuspidatum WiUd. 



HAB. Woods. Penn. to Car. Aug. If. St&m 35 feet high. 

 Flowers large, purple, violet. 



10. D. paniculatum De Cand. : stem erect, smooth, leaves ternate ; 

 leafets oblong-lanceolate, or elliptical, smooth ; stipules subulate ; 

 panicle terminal ; legumes with 4 rhomboidal pubescent joints. Hedy- 

 sarum paniculatum Linn. 



HAB. Dry woods. Can. to Car. W. to Miss. Aug. 74.. Stem 

 3 feet high, slender. Leaves long. Flowers purple. 



11. D. strictum DC Cand. ; stem stiffly erect, simple, subpubescent ; 

 leaves ternate ; leafets sublinear, smooth, reticulate, glaucous beneath ; 

 stipules subulate ; panicles terminal, pedunculate, few-flowered ; le- 

 gume incurved, with sublunate-triangular hispid joints. Hedysarum 

 hirtum Pursh. 



HAB. Pine barrens. N. J. to Car. W. to Miss. Aug. 21. 

 Stem slender, very erect. Leafets narrow. Flowers small, pur- 

 ple, in long axillary and terminal panicles. 



12. D. acuminatum DC Cand. : stem erect, simple, pubescent ; leaves 

 ternate, on very long petioles ; leafets ovate, conspicuously acumi- 

 nate, somewhat hairy, the odd one roundish-rhomboidal ; panicle ter- 

 minal, on a very long peduncle ; petioles somewhat pilose ; joints of 

 the legume roundish, glabrous. Hedysarum acuminatum Mich. 



HAB. Shady woods. Can. to Car. W. to Miss. July, Aug. If. 

 Panicle 1 2 feet long. Flowers purple. 



13. D. nudiflorum De Cand. : stem erect, simple, somewhat gla- 

 brous ; leaves ternate ; leafets broad-ovate, acuminate ; scape panicu- 

 late, smooth, radical ; joints of the legume obtusely-triangular, some- 

 what glabrous. Hedysarum nudiflorum Linn. 



HAB. Woods. Can. to Car. Aug. 0. Stem 810 feet high. 

 Scape 2 3 feet long, slender. Flowers purple. 



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