PULSE FAMILY. Leguminosae. 



hairy. 2-6 feet high. Common on the borders of 

 copses and on river banks, from Me., south to S. Car., 

 and west to Mo. and Neb. 



Trailing Bush ^^ interesting httle plant with a trailing 

 Clover habit, its perpendicular branches rising 



Lespedeza ivom a stout horizontal stem. The little 



P^rpir-magen- ^^^^^^ are cloverlike. The whole plant 

 ta or magenta= '^^'ooHj hairy. The tiny pealike blossoms 

 pink magenta-pink or a light purple-magenta. 



August- 12-25 inches long. Common in dry soil 



September everywhere. 



Lespedeza -^^ upright and tall species with small 



violacea elliptical leaflets distinctly stalked. Stem 



Purple sparingly hairy and much branched. The 



August- small flowers purple or violet-purple. 1-3 



September ^ ^ , • , ^ • ■, •/ , 



feet high. Common in dry soil, and on 



the borders of copses everywhere. 



Lespedeza An erect species with smooth, dark 



reticulata green, cloverlike leaves, crowding a 



Purple rather straight, generally smooth stem, 



which is terminated by the small, crowded, purple 

 flower-cluster ; smaller clusters also spring from the 

 junction of stem with leaf-stalk. The Lespedezaa, 

 especially this one, are apt to exhibit two kinds of 

 flowers ; those with showy petals, which are sterile, and 

 those petalless and minute, which are abundantly fer- 

 tile. According to Prof. Robertson, the chief visitors of 

 this flower are the bumblebee Bombus ainericanoruiny 

 the leaf-cutting bee (Megachile), and the ground bee 

 {Halictus ; notably H. ligatus). Among the butterflies, 

 Colias pliilodice and Pampliila cernes are occasional 

 visitors. 1-3 feet high. ]\Iass. and Mich., south. 

 Lespedeza '^^^i^ species has yellow-white flowers 



polystachya purple-spotted, which grow in small dense. 

 Yellow=white, bristly, oblong spikes. The stem is silky 

 spotted hairy, and the round-ovate leaflets are 



slightly separated by the conspicuous stalk of the middle 

 one. 2-4 feet high. Common everywhere on dry 

 hillsides. 



