H4 DIADELPHTA. DECANDRIA. 



base, o or 4-see(led. Legume smooth, broad, fktly conr 

 pressed, stipitate, and acute at either extremity, about 3- 

 seer^ed, 10 to 15 lines long", stipe the length of the calix; 

 upper suture straigh', lower arcuate. G. comesa appears 

 to be nothing- more than the present plant, and ought per- 

 haps to supercede the name of monoica^ founded apparer»t- 

 ly upon an ace. dental specimen, or the monster of a garden. 

 This species approaches Galactia, but cannot possibly be 

 introduced into ihat g-enus. 2 sarmentosa Leaves ter- 

 nate, ovate; racemes 3-flowered, flowers apetalous; le- 

 gume flat, 2-.seeded; calix 4-toothed. A genuine congener 

 of the preceding. 



516. GLYCINE. Michaux. Pursh. 



Calix 4-clert. subequal, upper segment bifid, 

 base partly attenuated. Vexillum oboval; wings 

 bidentate at the base: carina often incurved, 

 shorter than the vexillum. Germ naked at the 

 base. Legume oblong, compressed, 2-seeded, 

 sessile. 



Herbaceous or shrubby plants; stems erect or twining, 

 stipules caithne, small, leaves ternafe, rarely simple*; 

 flowers racemose, axillary and terminal, sometimes soli- 

 tary; bractes deciduous, 1-flowtred; flowers often yellow- 

 ish. 



Specirs. 1. G. tomentosa. Stem twining and angular; 

 leaves tcrnate, ovate-oblong, acute, pubescent, beneath 

 tomentose; racemes axillar}', shorter than the petioles; 

 (legume oblong, 2-seeded). Had. From Virginia to 

 tleorgia. Flowers yellow. 



2. * erecta. C tomentosa, oc. ereeta. Mich. 2. p. 6o. 

 Stem erect and angular; leaves ternate, subovate, obtuse, 

 striceously villous; racemes axillary and terminal, longer 

 tiian the leaves; segments of the calix long and linear. 

 Uab. From Carolina to Florida. Flowers partly fulvous 

 yellow. Stipules obsolete. Cahx, as in the following 

 species, divided nearly to the base, of a foliaceous consis- 

 tence and veined, the lowest segment a little longer than 

 the rest; vexillum subincumbent, longer than the other 

 petals, bidentate at the base, and distinctly unguiculate; 

 wings the Icngilj of the keel, as in all the other species 

 which I have examined, upper margin plaited, also in 

 common with the ,Rcnus? bidentate at the base, (which is 

 not the case with Jlpios and Jmphicujpn, In the latter the 

 t)blong and sessile vexillum is destitute of sinuous indeiv 



