TORREYA 



Vol. 40 July-;\itt^ii.st. 1940 No. 4 





Report of the Local Flora Committee 



I. Lespedeza 



The present article on Lcspcde:sa constitutes one of a series 

 of notes on the distribution of native plants of the Torrey Club 

 area, representing in part the work of the Local Flora Committee 

 during the past two seasons. Two plates drawn by Miss Maud H. 

 Purdy of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden illustrate species of 

 Lespedeza found in our area. It must not be taken for granted that 

 the problems are now cleared up ; on the contrary, these drawings 

 and distributional notes should be an incentive to much-needed 

 observation in the field of variation in this difficult genus. Maps^ 

 showing the geographical distribution of individual species within 

 the Torrey Club area as represented in the local herbaria of the 

 New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 have been placed in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. For statements in the text the chairman of the committee 

 is entirely responsible. 



Lespedeza repens (L.) Bart. PI. I, fig. 4. A southern species 

 apparently common in southern New Jersey north to Morris 

 County. Abundant on Long Island, especially south of the moraine, 

 and extending northward in the Hudson Valley to lona Island 

 (/If. 0. Steele). Known from New Haven, Trumbull, and Fairfield, 

 Conn. (See Conn. State Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 48:59. 

 1930.) 



L. PROCUMBENS Michx. PL I, fig. 5. Occasional in southern 

 New Jersey in the pine barrens and represented northward to 

 central New Jersey (Somerset and Essex Counties), with a single 

 station in Sussex Co. (Andover Junction). Common on Long 

 Island and extending northward in the Hudson Valley to West 

 Park, Ulster County, N. Y. Dififers from L. rcpcns only in the hairy 

 .stem, and therefore perhaps not a sufficiently distinct species. 



^ The following members of the committee have made maps of Lcspcdcca : 

 Miss Hester M. Rusk, Miss Eleanor Friend, Miss Dolores Fay, Miss Ora B. 

 Smith, Mr. J. Harry Logan, and Dr. H. A. Gleason. 



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