420 D1ADELPHIA DECANDR1A 



long; stipules setaceous-subulate. Flotcers in numerous short clustered axillae 

 racemes ; pedicels scarcely a line in length, pubescent ; bracts short, lance»8ubJ 

 late. Calyx pubescent, with 2 slender subulate bracts at base ; segments of ih 

 calyx subulate. Corolla pale purple, with deeper tinges of violet. Legume n^r 

 than twice as long as the calyx, compressed, ovate, with a short abrupt acumin 

 ation, strongly and reticulately veined, pilose with short appressed hairs. 

 Hub. Dry banks; Mica-slate hills: frequent. Fl. August— Sept. /•>. October 

 Obs. I can perceive but little to distinguish this from the following, except the 

 narrow sublinear leaves. It was erroneously inserted in my Catalogue asiheL 

 angustifolia, of Elliott —a species bearing about the same relation to L. frultt. 

 cens } as this does to L. scssiliflora. 



2. L. skssiliflora, J\*utt, Stem erect, somewhat brandling ; leaflets 

 oblong-oval, obtuse, subvillose beneath ; racemes fusciculate, axillary 

 subscssile ; legumes ovate, acute, or acuminate, much longer than the 

 minute calyx. Beck, Bot. p. 86. 



Skssile-floweukd Lkspedeza. Vulgo — Bush Clover. 



Root perennial. Stern 1 to 2 feet high, striate, somewhat pubescent, sometime! 

 jjaniculately branched, often simple. Leaflets half an inch to an inch and half 

 long, and 1 third to 2 thirds of an inch wide, ovate-oblong, oval, or sometimes ob. 

 ovate, often retuse at apex, mucronate, the upper surface smoothish, or slightly 

 sprinkled with short appressed hairs, somewhat glaucous and villose beneath* 

 common petioles 1 fourth of an inch to an inch long; stipules subulate-filiform. 

 Flowers in subscssile axillary clusters. Calyx pubescent. Corolla violet-purple. 

 Legume 3 times as long as the calyx, compressed, ovale, mucronate, or acumin- 

 ate, reticulately veined, and pilose with short appressed hairs. 



Hab. Dry woodlands, and thickets: frequent. FL August— Sept. Fr. October 



Obs. Tn our Chester County specimens, the upper surface of the leaves is green* 

 and generally smoothish; but in my specimens from N. Carolina, both sidesof 

 the leaves are densely clothed with appressed cinereous and somewhat silky hairs. 



3. L. Nuttallit. Stem erect, hairy, somewhat branched ; leaflets 

 oval, ovate and obovate, villose beneath ; racemes somewhat spiked, 

 pedunculate, longer than the leaves ; legumes lance-ovate, acuminate, 

 very pubescent, rather longer than the calyx. 



L. virgata. JK'utt. Herbm\ Not of DC. 



L. Stuvei. Florid. Cestr. p. 81. Not of JSTutt. DC. Beck, &c. 



Nuttall's Lespedeza. 



Root perennial. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, striate, often angular towards the sum. 

 mit, mostly very pubescent, more or less branched, sometimes virgately. Leaflet* 

 half an inch to an inch and quarter long, and 1 third of an Inch to near an inch 

 wide, varying from oblong-ovate to oval and obovate, rounded, or retuse at apex, 

 sometimes rather acute, mucronate, the upper surface more or less sprinkled with 

 short appressed hairs, the lower mostly quite villose ; common petioles 1 fourth of 

 an inch to an inch long, very pubescent; stipules lance-subulate. Flotcers rather 

 crowded in somewhat spiked pedunculate racemes ; peduncles axillary and term- 

 inal, very pubescent, mostly longer than the leaves. Calyx clothed with appres- 

 sed hairs; segments long, lance-subulate, or linear-lanceolate, pubcscent-ciliate. 

 Corolla purple, with tinges of violet. Legume scarcely 1 fourth longer than the 

 calyx, compressed, lance-ovate, acuminate, clothed with longi&h cinereous ap« 

 pressed hairs. 



