(1'ULSE FAMILY.) 101 



-*- Stems ascending (l-3 high): bracts small; racemes or panicles elongated 

 and loosely flowered : flowers small. 



15. I>. rigidlllll, DC. Stem branching, somewhat hoary, like the lower 

 surface of the leaves, with a close roughish pubescence; leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 blunt, thickish, reticulated-veiny, rather rough above, the lateral ones longer than 

 the petiole. Dry hill-sides, Mass, to Michigan, Illinois, and southward. Aug. 

 Intermediate, as it were, between No. 16 and No. 10. 



16. D. cilifirc, DC. Stem slender, hairy or rough-pubescent ; haves crowded, 

 on very short hairy petioles ; leaflets round-ovate or oval, thickish, more or less hairy 

 on the margins and underneath ('-1' long). Dry hills and sandy fields; 

 common, especially southward. Aug. 



17. J>. ITIarilitBKliciim, Boott. Nearly smooth throughout, slender; 

 leaflets ovate or roundish, very obtuse, thin, the lateral ones about the length of the 

 slender petiole: otherwise as No. 16. (D. obtusum, DC.) Copses, common. 

 July - Sept. 



-- H- -t- Stems reclining or prostrate: racemes loosely flowered. 



18. D. lineatiiin, DC. Stem minutely pubescent, striate-angled ; leaflets 

 orbicular, smoothish '('- 1' long), much longer than the petiole; pod not 

 stalked. Virginia and southward. 



18. L,ES V PEI>EZA-, Michx. BUSH-CLOVER. 



Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes nearly equal, slender. Stamens diadelphous (9 & 1) : 

 anthers all alike. Pods of a single 1-seeded joint (sometimes 2-jointed, with 

 the lower joint empty and stalk-like), oval or roundish, flat, reticulated. 

 Perennials with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, not stipellate. Stipules and bracts 

 minute. Flowers often polygamous. (Dedicated to Lespedez, the Spanish 

 governor of Florida when Michaux visited it.) 

 * Flowers of two sorts, the larger (violet-purple) perfect, but seldom fruitful, panicled 



or clustered; with smaller pistillate and fertile but mostly apetalous ones intermixed, 



or in subsessile little clusters. 



1. L.. prociilllbens, Michx. Soft-downy, except the upper surface of 

 the leaves, trailing, slender ; leaflets oval or elliptical ; peduncles slender, mostly 

 simple, few-flowered. Sandy soil, commonest southward. Aug. The apet- 

 alous fertile flowers, as in the rest, have short hooked styles. 



2. L,. repens, Torr. & Gray. Smooth, except minute close-pressed scattered 

 hairs, prostrate, spreading, very slender; leaflets oval or obovatc-elliptical (' 

 long); peduncles slender and few-flowered; pods roundish. Dry sandy soil, 

 S. New York to Kentucky and southward. Much like the last. 



3. It. violacea, Pers. Stems upright or spreading, branched ; leaflets 

 varying from oval-oblong to linear, whitish-downy beneath with close-pressed 

 pubescence; peduncles or clusters few-flowered ; pods ovate. The principal vari- 

 eties are, 1. DIVERGENS, with oval or oblong leaflets and loosely panicled 

 flowers ; this runs into, 2. SESSILIFI^RA, with the flowers principally on pe- 

 duncles much shorter than the leaves, and clustered ; and a more distinct form 

 is, 3. ANGUSTIF6LIA, with closely clustered flowers on straight branches 



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