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the New Jersey pine barrens. According to Hopkins (I.e.) the 

 only difference between this and the typical form is in the shape 

 of the leaflets, linear or linear-oblong instead of elliptic to oval. 

 L. Stuevei neglecta Britton is a superfluous name based on 

 L. Stuevei var. angustifolia. 



L. INTERMEDIA (Wats.) Britton (L. frutescens of manuals). 

 PI. II, fig. 3. L. virginica and L. intermedia are "very closely 

 related .... and may advantageously be retained as species. 

 L. Jrutescens' is a more freely and loosely branched plant, with 

 less leafy stems and broader oval or oblong-oval rather than linear 

 or linear-elliptic leaflets." Blake, Rhodora 26:30. 1924. Generally 

 distributed throughout, but no specimens are represented from 

 Columbia, Dutchess, or Putnam Counties, or from Warren, Morris, 

 and Hunterdon Counties in New Jersey. 



L. VIRGINICA (L.) Britton. PL II, fig. 2. Abundantly repre- 

 sented from Long Island and from New Jersey. North of West- 

 chester County in New York only from lona Island in the Hudson 

 near Bear Mountain, and from two stations in Orange County. 

 Forma Deaniii Hopkins, Rhodora 37 : 265. 1935, a western form 

 in which the stem-pubescence is spreading, is reported from New 

 Haven, Conn. (I.e.). 



L. siMULATA Mackenzie & Bush. This western species, with 

 calyx-lobes 6-8 mm. long (two-thirds as long as the pods) and said 

 to resemble L. capitata, has been reported from a few places in Con- 

 necticut and from Haworth, Bergen County, New Jersey. Accord- 

 ing to Palmer & Steyermark, Ann. Missouri Bot. Card. 22 : 582. 

 1935, it is "Probably a hybrid between L. virginica or L. Stuevei 

 and L. capitata." 



L. HiRTA (L.) Elliott. PI. II, fig. 5. Leaflets described by 

 Linnaeus as oval. Probably throughout the area, but no specimens 

 from Sullivan, Greene, Delaware, Dutchess, or Putnam Counties. 

 Var. oblongifolia Britton "may be a hybrid with L. angustifolia" ; 

 the TYPE came from Egg Harbor City, N. J. 



L. CAPITATA Michx. PI. II, fig. 4. Common throughout the 

 area, the typical form having oblong leaflets. Includes L. velutina 

 Bickn., and similar variants which have been placed under L. capi- 

 tata by Fassett in "The Leguminous Plants of Wisconsin," 1939, 

 a treatment coinciding with the independent observation of the 



Local Flora Committee. ,, y^ c r-^ ■ 



Henry K. Svenson, Chairman 



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