DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 4l5 



Obs. This was mistaken for D. canadcnse, when my Catalogue was published ; 

 and indeed I received a specimen of it under that name, from Mr. Schtceinitz. 

 As it has been ascertained, by Dr. Boott, not to be the original mar i land icrnn,— 

 and as the figure of Dillenius seems to be intended for it,— I have, at the suggestion 

 of Dr. B. given it the above name. 



6. D. TininiFLORUM, Beck. Stem erect, striate, hairy, scabrous at 

 summit; leaflets ovate, mostly obtuse, scabrous on the upper surface, 

 softly villose beneath ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; panicle 

 tcrmiual, very long, naked ; legumes with 3 or 4 obtusely triangular 

 pubescent joints. Beck, Bot. p. 84. Not of J)C. 

 Hcdysarum viridiflorum. L. Muhl. Catal.p. 66. Ell. Sk. 2./>.217. 

 Torr. Comp.p. 268, Eat. Man. p. 166. Not of Willd. Pert. Ait. 

 Pursh, Florid. Cestr. &c. 



GrEEX-FLOWKRED D£SMOI>JU3r. 



Root perennial. Stem 3 to 4 feet high, rather stout, striate, clothed with a hirsute 

 uncinate pubescence, especially towards the summit, paniculately branching, 

 branches long, erect, scabrous, mostly streaked with green and yellow. Leaflets 

 2 to 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 and a half inches wide, ovate, or oblomr-ovate, often 

 rather acute, scabrous aliove, bluish glaucous beneath, and rather densely clothed 

 with a soft vHloee pubescence ; common petioles half an inch to an inch long, very 

 hairy,-thc terminal leaflet on a petiole as long or often longer than the common 

 petiole; shpules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy and ciliate, striate, smooth 

 within and mostly of a bright chestnut-brown. Flowers in long paniculate leafless 

 racemes; branches very rough with uncinate hairs; pedicels rough ish-pubescent : 

 ower bract ovate, acute, pilose. Calyx pilose ; segments lance-ovaie, acute, the 

 lower one longer. Corolla violet-purple within, bluish green externally. Legume 

 mostly of 3 or 4 joint* uncinately pubescent ; joints obtusely triangular, more or 

 less convex or rounded on the upper margin. 



Jfab. Woodlands, and thickets ; Mica-slate hills : frequent. Fl. Aug. Fr. Sept^Octo 

 Obs. This is pronounced, by Dr. Boott, to be the true viridiflorum, of Linn. 

 and Clayton. It was collected in this County in 1830, by D. Townsend, Esq 



7. D. bikMCRM,£C; Stem erect, branching, striate, hairy and 

 scabrous ; leaflets ovate, acute, or sub-acuminat, scabrous on boA 

 sicbs; stipules large, obliquely ovate, acuminate, persistent ;pa nide 

 a gc very hairy, canescent; legumes with 5 or 6 oblong^rianTular 

 re iculated uncmatcly-hispid joints. Beck ? Bot. p. 84. * ****** 



*i tV V A 1 !' l u ! lflorum - -»<?. Prodr. 2. p. 329. 

 M*Q p D. Aikinianum. Beck, I. c. 



Cestr. p. 82. Lindl. Encv 6 6<*2 a£? » t , P ' ' FlorvL 

 Not of Linn. MnM. eR&£L&££* * * "** l * 

 H. scabernmum ? Ell. Sk. 2. p. 217. 

 M*o, H. Aikini. Eat. Man. p. 166. 



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