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L. viOLACEA (L.) Pers. PI. I, fig. 2. A large-flowered species 

 represented in New Jersey from Warren, Morris, and Bergen 

 Counties. It also occurs in southern Long Island and extends 

 locally northward to Orange County and southern Ulster County 

 (Ulsterville). The species was originally described (Sp. PI. 2: 749. 

 1753) as having violet flowers in pairs, the leaves ovate, and the 

 acute glabrous fruit three times as long as the calyx. Schindler (in 

 Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 49: 593. 1913) has noted especially the long- 

 exserted keel as characterizing the species. 



L. Brittonii Bickn. PI. I, fig. 3. The type, from Bronxville, 

 N. Y., is illustrated. Bicknell thought it intermediate in character 

 between L. Nuttallii and L. prociimhens, but larger than either. 

 It is of infrequent occurrence, being cited by Bicknell from Boston, 

 Bronxville, N. Y., and Quaker Bridge in the New Jersey pine 

 barrens. Members of the committee have seen on an open hillside 

 in Orange County, N. Y., a single clump of L. Brittonii surrounded 

 by abundant L. intermedia and L. capitata, and have wondered 

 whether it might represent a hybrid between those two species. 



L. Nuttallii Darlington. PI. I, fig. 1. The drawing illus- 

 trates a plant similar to Nuttall's specimen at the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, which came from Delaware and 

 in which the broadly ovate leaflets are markedly retuse and of 

 variable size. But Darlington's description evidently includes plants 

 of some diversity. Herbaria include under L. Nuttallii all specimens 

 of this group with leaves velvety pubescent below and with elongate 

 peduncles. Dr. Britton (Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 12:61. 1892) 

 felt that L. Nuttallii was quite distinct from L. Stuevei in "being 

 much less pubescent, having slender-peduncled heads of flowers, 

 much longer calyx-lobes, and longer, strongly acuminate pods." 

 By Taylor the species is stated as extending up the Hudson Valley 

 to the Highlands. 



L. Stuevei Nutt. PI. II, fig. 1. Described from sandy fields in 

 New Jersey, possibly from the vicinity of Bremen, where Dr. 

 Stueve lived. The illustration is from a specimen close in appear- 

 ance to Nuttall's type. Nuttall described the plant as velvety 

 tln-()Ugli()ul. leaves elli])tic-()val and ()l)tuse, and the peduncles about 

 an inch long, scarcely longer than llie leaves. The distribution 

 is scattered and not well understood, but the plant is, with us, 

 ])rimari!\- of the coastal plain. Forma aiu/ustijolia (Britton) Hop- 

 kins, Rhodora 37:265. 1935, came, without assigned type, from 



