574 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Meibomia rhombifolia (Ell.) Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 19 : 113. 1892. 



Hedysarum rhombifolium Ell. Sk. 2 : 216. 1821 . 



Desmodium rhombifolium DC. Prodr. 2 : 330. 1825. 



D. itoridanum Chap. Fl. 102. 1860. 



Meibomia floridana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 1 : 198. 1891. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 1. c. Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 318. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Open woods in sandy and gravelly soil. Dekalh 

 County, Mentoue. Flowers rose-purple, September. 



Type locality: "Grows in dry soils about Beaufort,'' S. C. 



Meibomia rigida (Ell. ) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1 : 198. 1891. RIGID TICK TREFOIL. 



Hedysarum rigidum Ell. Sk. 2 : 215. 1824. 



Desmodium riyidum, DC. Prodr. 2 : 330. 1825. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 140. Chap. Fl. 104. 



Alleghenian and Louisianiaii areas. Massachusetts, west to Illinois and Missouri, 

 south to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Prairies. Dry copses, open woods. Cal- 

 houn County, Anniston. Talladega and Montgomery counties. Monroe County, 

 Claiborne (E. A. Smith). Mostfrequent on the rocky barren ridges of the Coosa Valley. 



Type locality: " Grows in dry soils," South Carolina, Georgia. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Meibomia obtusa (Muhl.) Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 19 : 115. 1892. 



ClLIATK-LKAF TlCK TREFOIL. 



Hedysarum obtusum Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1190. 1803. 

 H. oiliare Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1196. 1803. 

 Desmodium ciliare DC. Prodr. 2 : 329. 1825. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : 212. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 140. Chap. Fl. 104. 



MEXICO. 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. Southern Ontario ; southern New York and West 

 Virginia to Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, south to the Gulf; from Florida to west- 

 ern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry barren hillsides, copses, copious in the cherty 

 hills, siliceous Metainorphic ridges of the Coosa, and the sandy pine barrens to the 

 coast. Flowers purplish, September, October. Not rare. 



3ast. Flowers purplish, September, October. Not 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Pensylvania." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Meibomia maryrandica (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1 : 198. 1891. 



MARYLAND TICK TREFOIL. 



Hedysarum marylandicum L. Sp. PI. 2 : 748. 1753. 



H. obtusum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 482. 1814. Not Muhl. 



Desmodium marylandicum Boott in Daii. Fl. Cest. ed. 2, 412. 1837. Not DC. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 214. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 140. Chap. Fl. 104. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England west to Michigan; Ohio Valley 

 to Missouri and Arkansas, south to western Florida and eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Coosa Valley. Talladega County, Chandler's Spring, 

 1,200 feet. Calhoun County, Anniston, rocky hills, 800 feet.' Flowers purplish, 

 August, September. Not rare. 



Type locality: ''Hab. in Carolina, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LESPEDEZA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:70. 1803.' 



About 35 species, mostly perennial herbs, of the warmer temperate regions of east- 

 ern Asia. North America 12, mostly Atlantic. 



Lespedeza repens (L.) Bart. Prodr. Fl. Phila. 2 : 77. 1818. CREEPING LESPEDE/A. 



Hedysarum repens L. Sp. PI. 2 : 749. 1753. 



Lespedeza prostrata Ell. Sk. 2 : 208. 1824. 



Ell. Sk. I.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 141. in part. Chap. Fl. 100, in part. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England, New York, and New 

 Jersey, west to Minnesota, south to Virginia and Florida, the Ohio Valley, and 

 Texas. 



! N. L. Britton, The North American species of the genus Lespede/a, Trans. N. Y. 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 12, pp. 57 to 68. 1893. 



