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

 and loosely flowered : flowers small. 



15. D. rigifllllll, DC. Stem branching, somewhat hoary, like the lowei 

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

 common, especially southward. Aug. 



17. D. Mariliilldicillll, 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. 



---i--t- Steins reclining or prostrate; racemes loosely flowered. 



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

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

 stalked. Virginia and southward. 



18. L.ESPEBEZA, Michx. BUSH-CLOVER. 



<Jalyx 5-cleft, the lobes nearly equal, slender. Stamens diadclphous (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 stipcllate. Stipules and bracts 

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

 governor of Florida when Michaux visited it.) 

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



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



or in subsessile little clusters. 



1. !< procuifilfoeilS, Michx. Soft-doivny, 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. E. re peilS, Torr. & Gray. Smooth, except minute close-pressed scattered 

 hairs, prostrate, spreading, very slender; leaflets oval or obovate-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. violiYcea, 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. SESSILIFLORA, with the flowers principally on pe- 

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

 ie, 3. ANQDSTiFtiLiA. with closely clustered flowers on straight branches 



