220 HARPER 



A common weed along roads and railroads, particularly in 

 and near towns. Now distributed nearly all over Georgia 

 and other southeastern states. Fl. Aug.-Oct. 



Native of Eastern Asia. 



MEIBOMIA Heist.; Fabr., Enum PI. Hort. Helmst. 168. 1759. 



(Desmodium Desv.) Beggar-lice. 

 M. tenuifolia (T. & G.) Kuntze, Rev. 1 : 198. 1891. 



Sand-hills and dry pine-barrens. . irwin, berrien, colquitt 



(1660). Fl. Sept.-Oct. 

 North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 



M. Michauxii Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 23 M40. 1896. 



Desmodium rotundifolium (Mx.) DC, Prodr. 2:330. 1825. 



Wooded bluffs along the muddy rivers, telfair: Near Lum- 

 ber City; wilcox : Upper Seven Bluffs. More common 

 farther inland and northward. 



Widely distributed in the Eastern United States. 



M. arenicola Vail, 1. c. 



Desmodium lineatum (Mx.) DC, 1. c. 



Dry pine-barrens; not common. Montgomery, irwin {1704) 



berrien, colquitt. Fl. Sept.-Oct. Also in Sumter and 



Charlton Counties. 

 Maryland to Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 



M. nudiflora (L.) Kuntze, Rev. 1 : 197. 1891. 



Montgomery: Wooded bluffs on both sides of the Oconee 

 River near Mount Vernon and Ochwalkee. Fl. June-Aug. 

 More common farther inland and northward. 

 A characteristic inhabitant of mesophytic forests nearly 

 throughout temperate Eastern North America. 



STYLOSANTHES Sw., Prodr. 108. 1788. 

 S. biflora (L.) B. S. P., Prel. Cat. N. Y. 13. 1888; Britton, Mem. 

 Torrey Club 5 1202. 1894. 

 Sand-hills, dry pine-barrens, etc. ; not abundant, bulloch 



(P46), EMANUEL, TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, COFFEE, BERRIEN, 



dooly, colquitt, decatur. Fl. May-July. Pretty well 

 distributed over South Georgia, also in several places in 

 Middle Georgia, where it is perhaps only a weed. 



