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not over 10—15 cm. long, densely velvety-pubescent throughout, 

 the younger parts soft-canescent. Leaves numerous, crowded, 

 ascending or subappressed, on short petioles mostly 3—5 mm. 

 long, shorter than or slightly exceeding the very narrow, 

 recurved-spreading stipules ; leaflets oblong, somewhat nar- 

 rowed to the base, rounded to the short-mucronulate apex, 

 25—40 mm. long, 8—18 mm. wide, densely tomentose-ciliate, 

 the odd leaflet usually slightly the largest on a foot-stalk longer 

 than the petiole : inflorescence capitate in dense clusters axillary 

 to the upper leaves or crowded at the ends of stem and branches ; 

 heads ovoid or broadly ovoid, subsessile or on obscure petioles 

 becoming 10—15 mm - long: corolla 6.5—8.5 mm. long, subequal 

 with the calyx lobes ; standard pure white with a crescent of 

 suffused pink-purple streaks in the middle, oblong and partly 

 conduplicate, nearly horizontal ; wings as long as the standard, 

 hnear-oblong, narrowed to the tip, white ; keel shorter, purplish- 

 margined toward the tip : calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 

 exceeding the corolla, becoming 8-10 mm. long, densely hoary- 

 pilose : pod oblong or narrowly rhomboid, gradually narrowed to 

 each end, 5-6 mm. long, mostly 2.5 mm. wide, densely short- 

 pubescent, much shorter than the calyx-lobes. 



New York : Woodlawn, border of low thicket, beginning to 

 flower from the middle to the end of August. 



Massachusetts : Beach Bluff, August, 1S89, Win. E. 

 Wheelock. 



Type from Woodlawn, N. Y., August 28, 1898, flowers ; 

 September 25, 1898, fruit : in herb. New York Botanical Garden. 



This species, although beautifully distinct from L. capitata 

 Michx., resembles that common species so closely in general 

 habit that it is not surprising it has remained undistinguished. The 

 soft velvety pubescence covering both surfaces of the leaves and 

 showing nothing of the appressed and silky character of that of 

 L. capitata and its more western variety sericea, will alone 

 always easily distinguish L. velutina from these near relatives. 



It should be noted further that its flowering time is from two 

 to four weeks later than that of L. capitata. 



Lespedeza Brittonii 



Densely soft cinereous-pubescent or tomentose, especially 

 above, with finally spreading hairs, becoming sparsely pubescent 

 below, the upper surface of the leaves thinly subappressed-pubes- 



