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6 cm. long or less, acute or acutish at both ends; racemes i-3-flowered; 

 pedicels 2 cm. long or less; petals 5-6 mm. long: pome subgiobose or 

 somewhat longer than thick, about 8 mm. in diameter. In swamps, 

 Vt. and Mass, to Mich. May. 



P. 553, after Astragalus Robbinsii, insert: 



22a. Astragalus Jesupi (Eggleston & Sheldon) Britton. JESUP'S MILK 

 VETCH. Similar to A. Robbinsii, but with larger, darker purple flowers, 

 the pod longer, acuminate, somewhat triangular in section, with a dorsal 

 groove, and a stipe equalling or longer than the calyx. In rocky places, 

 Me., N. H., Vt. (A. Robbinsii Jesupi Egg. and Sheld.) 



P. 555, after Orophaca caespitdsa, inser : 



IE. Orophaca argoph/lla (Nutt.) Rydb. SILVERY MILK-VETCH. 

 Resembles O. caespitpsa, but with relatively broader and shorter leaflets, 

 the whole plant silvery-cottony. Stipules scarious; corolla smaller 

 than in O. caespitosa, pubescent outside ((glabrous in O. caespitosd); 

 calyx-tube a little longer than its teeth (more than twice as long as the 

 teeth in O. caespitosa). Dry soil, Neb. to Wyo. May-July. (Phaca 

 argophylla Nutt.; Astragalus kyalinus M. E. Jones.) 



P. 563, after Lespedeza Nuttallii, insert: 



3a. Lespedeza Brittonii Bicknell. BRITTON'S BUSH-CLOVER. Light 

 green and densely cinereous-pubescent, especially above, the upper sur- 

 face of the leaves glabrate; stems ascending, 0.5-1 m. long, wand-like, 

 bearing short flowering branches and reduced leaves above, often longer 

 branched about the middle; leaves short-petioled; petioles 2-10 mm. long; 

 leaflets oblong, rounded or contracted at base and apex, 20-45 mm. long, 

 8-20 mm. wide; terminal flower-clusters short-spicate on slender pedun- 

 cles 2-5 cm. long; lower peduncles short and few-flowered, or bearing 

 clustered cleisto^amous flowers; coralla pinkish-purple, much surpassing 

 the attenuate calyx-lobes, 6-8 mm. long; pod ovate or ovate-oblong, 4.5- 

 6.5 mm. long, acute, canescent or short-pubescent, twice the length of the 

 calyx-lobes or less. Dry soil, Bronxville, N. Y. City. Also eastern Mass, 

 and N. J. Aug.-Sept. 



3b. Lespedeza acuticarpa Mackenzie & Bush. Erect-ascending; 

 stems finely pubescent to glabrate, 5-6 dm. long, slender. Leaflets 

 oblong to oblong-elliptic, glabrate above, densely appressed-pubescent 

 beneath, 8-30 mm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish, mucronulate; 

 racemes peduncled, few-flowered, much longer than the subtending 

 leaves; pedicels 2-14 mm. long; flowers purplish, 6-8 mm. long; calyx- 

 teeth subulate, about 3 mm. long; pod ovate-oval, 6 mm. long, short- 

 stipitate, sparingly pubescent, very acute. Mo. and Ark. 



3C. Lespedeza Manniana Mackenzie & Bush. Erect, somewhat 

 branched, the slender branches pubescent, ascending. Leaflets oblong, 

 1-4 cm. long; 412 mm. wide, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, 

 narrowed or subcuneate at the base, sparingly appressed-pubescent 

 above, densely so beneath; peduncles much longer than the leaves, 

 several-flowered; calyx about 8 mm. long, the subulate teeth 5-6 mm. 

 long, equalling or a little longer than the purplish corolla and the oval 

 acute pod. Dry open soil, Kans. and Mo. Aug. 



P. 564, before Lespedeza Stuvei, insert: 



4a. Lespedeza prairea (Mackenzie & Bush) Britton. Resembling 

 L. violacea, but smaller. Leaflets oval to oblong or obovate, obtuse 

 or often retuse at the apex, mucronulate, narrowed at the base, 6-18 mm. 

 long, 4-9 mm. wide; peduncles very slender, longer than the leaves, 



