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bloom. Very closely herein do both sorts of flowers grow and the in- 

 florescence has therefore an uneven rather unkempt look. The Icalkts are 

 very abundant and nearly glabrous. 



L. capitaia, round-headed bush-clover, a tall, wccdy-looking individual, 

 is rather unusual in that it bears but one sort of flower which is complete. 

 In rounded or oblong heads, growing on pubescent peduncles or sessile 

 from the upper axils, a number of them are grouped together and as their 

 corolla is yellow with a purple spot at the base of the standard, the plant 

 could not well be confused with any of the preceding species. The three- 

 foliate leaves are nearly sessile, the leaflets oblong or orbicular and covered 

 with silky white hairs, at least on the lower side. 



Chapjiidnnla Floridana. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



rtii. Ye I low. Scentless. M it/die Florida. April-.\ui;ust. 



Fhnvers: of two sorts growing in terminal racemes. Calyx : of the sterile ones 

 unequally five cleft, the lowest tooth longest and remote from the others. 

 Corolla : inserted on the throat of the calyx. Keel: cleft at the apex. Stamens : 

 ten, monodeli)hous. Lei^nwies: one to four jointed, contracted at the joints and 

 covered with soft bristles. Leaves: odd-pinnate, with from three to seven oblong 

 or obovate leaflets, pointed or rounded at the ai)ex and mostlv tapering at the 

 base; entire; hairy below at least when young. Sterns: slender; two lo Uiree 

 feet high, viscid and hirsute. 



This leafy and much branched little plant which early in the morning 

 blooms through the dry pine barrens of middle Florida, produces as the 

 bush-clovers two sorts of flowers in its inflorescence. The sterile ones, while 

 their petals last, are quite showy, but the other ones are plain and have 

 neither petals nor stamens. They are simply abundantly fertile. The 

 plant, the only one of its genus, commemorates Dr. Chapman whose love 

 and work among the southern flora and his many excellent deeds have 

 caused it to be written of him : "The passing of Dr. Chapman is to this 

 community like the fall of a mighty oak which leaves the landscape deso- 

 late." 



CAROLINA VETCH. 



Vicia Caroliniiina. 



Flo7vers : small, growing in racemes from the axils of the leaves. Ciilyx : short, 

 five-toothed. Corolla : papilionaceous, the standard upright, and the keel tipped 

 with blue. Pods: about an inch long, ]>ointed ; glabrous. Leaves : comjmund, 

 with very short stalks and having a jiair of small stipules at their bases, |)innate, 

 terminating in a tendril, the leaflets small, eight to eighteen, oblong, or linear- 

 oblong, rounded at the base ; entire. A slender vine trailing or clindnng by uR-ans 

 of leaf-tendrils. 



