LEGUMINOS^E. 87 



HAB. Dry woods. N. Y. to Flor. Aug., Sept. If. Stem 23 

 feet high, slender. Leaves hairy beneath. Flowers violet. 



3. L. sfaeei Nutt. : stem simple, erect, softly and sericeously villaus 5 

 leaves on very short petioles ; leafets elliptic-oval, mucronate ; racemes 

 pedunculate, scarcely longer than the leaves ; legumes pubescent, 

 naked, longer than the calyx. 



HAB. Sandy fields. N. J. to Car. July, Aug. 2[.Stem 23 

 feet high, covered with a silky pubescence. Peduncles an inch 

 long. Floicers purple. 



4. L.frutescens Ell. : stem erect: leaves on short petioles; leafets 

 elliptical, obtuse, silky-pubescent beneath; racemes axillary, subses- 

 sile, shorter than the leaves ; calyx shorter than the corol ; legume pi- 

 lose, shorter than the calyx. L.fruticosa Pers, Hedysarum frutescens 

 Linn. 



HAB. Dry woods. Penn. to Car. Sept. 2J..Stem 23 feet 

 high. Flowers white and red. 



5. L. capitata Mich. : stem erect, simple ; leaves on very short peti- 

 oles ; leafets elliptic, with close pressed hairs beneath ; spikes capitate, 

 on short peduncles, axillary and conglobate-terminal ; calyx villous, 

 as long as the corol, with the legume much longer. Hedysarum con- 

 glomcratum Lam. 



HAB. Borders of woods. Can. to Car. W. to Miss. July, 

 Aug. H. Stem 2 3 feet high. Flotcers purple. This may 

 be only a variety of the last, although it is not so considered 

 by De Candolle. 



G. L. angustrfolia^Ell. : stem erect, pubescent ; leaves on very short 

 petioles ; leafets ottlong-eliptic or lanceolate, white pubescent beneath; 

 racemes capitate, longer than the leaves ; corol longer than the calyx. 

 L. capitata, var. angustifolia Pursh. 



HAB. Sandy woods. N. Y. to Car. Sept. If. Stem 34 feet 

 high. Leti/cts very narrow, villous beneath. Flowers white and 

 purple, in small heads. 



7. L. polystachya Mich. : stem erect, branched, very villous ; leaves 

 on very short petioles ; leafets round-oval, obtuse ; spikes oblong, ax- 

 illary, pedunculate, twice as long as the leaves ; corol and legume 

 about as long as the calyx. L. hirta Ell. Torr. Hedysarum hirtum Linn. 



HAB. Dry woods. N. Y. to Car. Aug., Sept. Z. Stem2 4 

 feet high. Flowers reddish-white, in dense racemes on pedun- 

 cles which are longer than the leaves. 



8. L. violacea Pers. : diffuse, much branched, somewhat pubescent ; 

 leaves on long petioles ; leafets elliptic-obtuse, somewhat hairy ; ra- 

 cemes subumbelled, about as long as the leaves ; flowers in pairs, dis- 

 tinctly pedicellate ; legume rhomboidal, reticulate and smooth. He- 

 dysamm violaceum Linn. 



HAB. Dry woods. Can to Car. W. to Miss. July. If. Stem 

 long, slender. Flowers violet. Lespedeza divergens of Pursh, is 

 probably only a variety of the above, although Mr. Elliott con- 



