PAPILIONACEAE. 



[VOL. II. 



7. Meibomia glabella (Michx.) Kuntze. 

 Trailing Tick-trefoil. (Fig. 21 76. ) 



Hedysarum glabellum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 73. 1803. 

 Desmodium humifusum Beck, Bot. 86. 1833. 

 Meibomia glabella Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 198. 1891. 



Procumbent, glabrous or nearly so, stem terete 

 below, striate above, sometimes 8 long. Stipules 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; leaves petioled; leaf- 

 lets ovate or oval, obtuse, glabrous or sparingly pu- 

 bescent above, pale beneath, i / -2^ / long.the ter- 

 minal one slightly rhomboid; racemes terminal and 

 axillary, panicled; bracts deciduous; flowers purple; 

 calyx-lobes acute, the upper one 2-toothed, the 

 others attenuate; loment 3~5-joiuted, the joints ob- 

 liquely semi-rhomboidal, less convex above than 

 below; stipe about 2" long, equalling or rather 

 longer than the calyx-lobes. 



In dry sandy woods, eastern Massachusetts to New 

 York, western New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania to 

 South Carolina. Aug.-Sept. 



8. Meibomia sessilifolia (Torr. ) Kunt/.e. 



(Fig. 2177.) 



Hedysarum sessilifolium Torr.; Curtis, Bost. 



Journ. Nat. Hist, i: 123. 1834. 

 Desmodium sessilifolium T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 



363- 1838. 



Meibomia sessilifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 

 198. 1891. 



Erect, 2-4 high, uncinate-pubescent. 

 Stipules small, deciduous; leaves very nearly 

 sessile; leaflets linear or linear-oblong, obtuse 

 at each end, nearly glabrous above, reticulate- 

 veined and pubescent beneath, I'-j' long, 

 3"-9" w ide; racemes terminal, simple or 

 compound; flowers small, 2 // ~3 // long, pur- 

 ple; pedicels very short; bracts deciduous; 

 calyx-lobes acute, the upper one obliquely 

 2-toothed; loment i-3-jointed, the joints 

 about 2" long, obliquely obovatc, hispid, 

 somewhat twisted, less convex above than 

 below; stipe not exceeding the calyx-lobes. 



In dry soil, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 

 Connecticut to Michigan, south to Kentucky, 

 Arkansas and Texas. July-Sept. 



Sessile-leaved Tick-trefoil. 



Meibomia stricta (Pursh) Kunt/.e. 

 Tick-trefoil. (Fig. 2178.) 



Stiff 



Hedysarum slrictum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 483. 1814. 

 Desmodiinn ^tritium DC. Prodr. 2: 329. 1825. 

 Meibomia stricla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 198. 1891. 



Erect, slender, finely pubescent, 2-4 high. Stipules 

 subulate, deciduous; leaves petioled; leaflets linear, ob- 

 tuse, glabrous, thick, reticulate-veined, 1'-?.}^' long, about 

 3" wide; flowers i // -2 // long; loment small, i-3-jointed; 

 joints semi-obovate or semi-rhomboid, often slightly con- 

 cave on the back, uncinate-pubescent, about i" long; 

 pedicels short; stipe about equalling the calyx-lobes. 



Pine barrens of New Jersey to Florida, west to Louisiana. 

 July-Sept. 



