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LKGUMINOS.i:. (rULSK FAMILY.) lol 



1. R. Pseud acieia, L. (Common Loci-st or Falsi: Acacia.) Branches 

 naked; met men Khiiflrr, louse : flowers white, fVaj^raiit ; jxxl smooth. — S. Penn- 

 sylvania to S. Illinois and southward. Commonly eidtivated as an ornamental 

 tree, and for its valuahle tiniher : naturalized in many plaee.s. June. 



2. R. visc6sa, ^'ent. (Cla.mmy L.) BmuchUts uud /eafstnlL-s cliimimj; 

 /lowiis cinviid in olloiuj racemes, tinged with rose-color, nearly inodorous; pod 

 jjlandular-hispid. — Virginia and southward. Cultivated, like the last, a smaller 

 tree. June. 



■'5. R. hispida, L. (Buistly L. or Rose Acacia.) Bianchlets nnd stalks 

 Irlstlij ; tlowers large and deep rose-color, inodorous ; pods glandular-hispid. — 

 Varies with less hristly or nearly naked hranchlets ; also with smaller flowers, 

 &c. — Mountains of Virginia and southward : commonly cultivated. May, 

 Jane. — Shriih 3° -8° high. 



12. WISTARIA, Nutt. Wistaria. 



Calyx campanulate, somewhat 2-lippcd ; upper lip of 2 short teeth, the lower 

 of 3 longer ones. Standard roundish, large, turned back, with 2 callosities at 

 its base : keel scythe-shaped : wings doubly aurieled at the base. Stamens di- 

 adel])hous. Pod elongated, thickish, knobby, stipitate, many-seeded, at length 

 2-valved. Seeds large. — Woody twiners, clinil)ing high, with minute stipules, 

 ])innate leaves of 9- 13 ovate-lanceolate leaflets, with or without minute stipcls, 

 and dense racemes of large and showy lilae-i)ur])lc flowers. (Dedicated to the 

 late Piofcssor Wislar, of rhiladel]ihia.) 



1. W. frutescens, DC. Downy or smoothish when old; wings of the 

 corolla with one short auricle and an awl-shajjcd one as long as the claw. (W. 

 specinsa, Xnlt.) — Alluvial grounds, W. Virginia to Illinois and southward. 

 May. — Sometimes cultivated for ornament, as is the still handsomer Chinese 

 species. 



13. TEPHROSIA, Ters. Hoary Pea. 



Calyx about eiiually 5-cleft. Standard roundish, usually silky outside, turned 

 back, scarcely longer than the coherent wings and keel. Stamens monadelphous 

 or diadelphous. Pod linear, flat, several-seeded, 2-valved. — Hoary perennial 

 herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and white or purplish racemed flowers. Leaflets 

 mucronate, veiny. (Name from T€(f>p6s, ash-ivlond or hoarij.) 



1. T. Virginikna, Pers. (Goat's Kik. Catcut.) Sdky-viUous with 

 whitish hairs wiien young ; stem end and simfile (l°-2° high), leafu to the top; 

 Iciiflets 17-29, linear-oblong; flowers large and numerous, clustered in a termi- 

 nal tJiluii'i dense mreme or jMnide, yellowish-white marked with purple. — Dry 

 sandy .soil. June, July. — Roots long and slender, very tough. 



2. T. Spicata, Torr. & Gray. Mllons n-ith ritsti/ /luirs; stems branched 

 below, straggling or ascending (2° long), /eir-leared ; leaflets 9- 15, obovate or 

 oblong-wedge-shaped, often notched ; flowers feu\ in a loose interru|ited very Iviiff- 

 pidinirlid spd.e, red<lish. — Dry soil, Di-laware and southward. .Inly. 



3. T. hispidula, Pursh Hairy with .some long and rusty or only minute 

 and appressed pubescence ; stems slender (9' -24' long), divergently branched, 



