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only. Flowers blue. Often flowering twice in the season. There are 

 white and double-flowevcd and variegated-leaved varieties and some with 

 racemes 2°-3° long. Barely hardy in New England. China or Japan. 



28. STYLOSANTHES. (Greek: colnmn,Jhnrn\ h-om tlie stalk-like 

 calyx-tube.) 



S. elatior, Swartz. Low, inconspicuous, tufted herb ; stems wiry, 

 (h)wny on one .side ; leaflets lanceolate, strongly straight-veined ; flowers 

 orange-yellow, small, in little clusters or heads, in late summer. Pine 

 barrens from L. L to Fla. and Ind., 8. W. 



29. LESPEDEZA, liUSII CLOVEK. (For Lespedez, a Spanish gov- 

 ernor of Florida.) Mostly homely plants in sandy or sterile soil ; flowers 

 late summer and autumn. 



* Siipulcs and bracts minute. ; natives {except one) . H 



-»- Flowers of two sorts, the larger violet-purple, scattered or in open pani- 

 cles or clnsters, slender-pedunrled, seldom fruitful; the fertile ones 

 mostlij loithout petals, intermixed or in small sessile clusters; pod 

 genernlhj crscrled. 



L. prociimbens, Michx. Slender or trailing, minutely hairy or soft- 

 downy ; leaflets oval or oblong ; peduncles slender and few-flowered. 

 Common. 



L. violacea, Pers. Bushy-branching, erect or spreading, sparsely 

 leafy ; leaflets thin, broadly oval or oblong, finely appressed-pubescent 

 beneath ; peduncles slender, loosely few-flowered. Common. 



L. reticulata, Pers. Erect, den.sely leafy ; leaflets thickish, linear to 

 linear-oblong ; flowers clustered on peduncles, much shorter than the 

 leaves ; pods acute. Mass. to Minn, and S. 



L. Stfivei, Nutt. Stems upright-spreading, very leafy, downy with 

 spreading hairs ; leaflets mostly oval or roundisli, silky or white-woolly 

 beneath ; pods acuminate. Ma.ss. to Mich, and S. 



L. Siebo/di, Miq. (or Dksmodii'm i'eni)i:i.ifl6rum). A recent Japanese 

 garden plant, is a shrub-like herb 3°-(5°, with lanceolate, pointed leaflets, 

 smooth above and appre.ssed-pubescent beneath, and axillary racemes, 

 .■]'-()' long, of late rose-purple flowers about a half inch in length. Known 

 also as L. ufcoLOR, but that species is probably not cult, in this country. 



t- t- Flowers all alike, perfect, in close spikes or heads, on upright, (2°- 

 4° high) simple, rigid stems; corolla cream-color or white with a purple 

 spot on the standard, about the length of the silky-downy calyx ; pod 

 included. 



L. polystachya, Michx. Leaflets roundi.sh or oblong-ovate ; petioles 

 and i)e(luncles slender; sjjikes becoming rather long and loose; mature 

 l)od hardly shorter than calyx. Common. 



L. capitata, Michx. Stems rigid, woolly ; leaflets oblong or some- 

 times linear, silky beneath, thickish; peduncles and petioles short; 

 flowers in globular heads ; pod much shorter than the calyx. Common. 



L. angustif61ia, Ell. Like the la.st, but leaflets linear, heads oblong 

 on slender i)eduneles ; pod hardly .sliorter than calyx. N. J., S. and \\ . 



* * Stipules and bracts broad and scarivus; naturalized from China and 

 Japan. 



L. striata. Hook. & Arn. Jai'.vn Ci-uvi:u. Low and spreading, .".'-10' 

 high, much braiu-lied, almost smooth ; leaflets oblong or wedge-oblong, 

 \'-\' long; peduncles very short, with 1-5 small, purplish flowers. A 

 forage plant in the S. States and Cal. 



