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Hub. Dry hills ; Mica-slate range : frequent. Fl. August— Sept. Fr. October. 

 Obs. This is in Mr. NuttalVs Herbarium, in the Philadelphia Academy, under 

 the name of L. virgata ; but as that name is preoccupied, I have ventured to pro- 

 pose the one here substituted. When my Catalogue was published, I mistook it 

 for the L. Sluvei, of Nuttall,— to which, in fact, it has some resemblance. 



4, L. frutescexs, Ell. Stem erect, subsimple, villose; leaflets cllip- 

 tic-oblong, silky -pubescent beneath ; common petioles very short; spikes 

 capitate, ovoid, on short axillary peduncles ; legumes clliptic-ovatc, pu- 

 bescent, much shorter than the calyx, Beck, Bot. p. 87. 

 L. fruticosa. Pevs. Syn. 2. p 318. Lindl. Ency. p. 630. 

 h. capitate* Mx. Am. 2. p. 71. Pursh, Am. 2. p. 480. Nutt. Gen. 

 2. p. 107. Bart. Phil. 2. p. 76. Bigel. Boat. p. 272. Eat. Man. p. 

 202. Also, Pers. I. c. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 349. Lindl. I. c. Beck, I. c. 

 Hedysarum frutescens. Willd. Sp. 3. p. 1193, Ait. Kew. 4. p. 343. 

 Muhl. Catal. p. 66. 



Shrubby Lespedeza. 



Root perennial. Stc?n 2 to 4 (usually about 3) feet high, leafy, Fiilcate-striate, 

 very villose, and often tawny, especially when young, mostly simple, sometimes 

 branched at summit, firm when old, but not frutescent. Leaflets 3 fourths of au 

 inch to near 2 inches long, and 1 fourth to 3 fourths of an inch wide, mostly obtuse, 

 slightly mucronate, silky-villose beneath (sometimes on both surfaces, especially 

 when young), the upper surface rcticulately veined, finally smoothish ; common 

 petioles 1 or 2 lines in Length, very pubescent,— the partial petiole of the terminal 

 leaflet 2 or 3 times as long as the common petiole : stipules lance-subulatc. Flow- 

 (r$ crowded in oblong-ovoid or subglobose heads, on axillary peduncles 1 fourth to 

 half an inch long; pedicels very. short ; btacts subulate, hairy. Cahjx very hairy, 

 deeply 5-parted ; segme?its about as long as the corolla, lance-linear, acuminate, 

 3-nerved, hairy and ciliatc. Corolla white, or ochroleucous, with a purple spot on 

 the vcxillum. Legume compressed, elliptic-ovate, pilose, I third to 1 half shorter 

 than the calyx-segments. 



JJab. Mica-slate hills : not very common. Fl. August— Sept. Fr. October. 



0b3. Collected near Shugart-town, in E. Goshen, by D. Townsbnd, Esq. in 1821* 

 I have also collected beautiful specimens near Mr. John D. Steele's, in W. brad. 

 ford,-with the leaves narrower, silky-pubescent on both sides, and the stem densely 

 clothed with a tawny villus. 



5. L. polystachya, Mx. Stem erect, paniculate at summit, hoary- 



villose ; leaflets roundish-oval, pubescent ; common petioles short ; 



spikes oblong, on long axillary peduncles ; legumes elliptic-ovate, pilose, 



nearly as long as the calyx. Beck, Bot.p. 87. Itox, Mx. Am. 2. 



tab. 40. 



L. hirta. Ell. Sk. 2. p. 207. Tow. Comp. p. 2G7. Florul. Cestr. 



p. 81. 



Hedysarum hirtum. mild. Sp. 3. p. 1193. Ait. Kew. 4. p. 344. 



Muhl. Catal. p. 66. 



MlXY-SPIKED IjESPEDEZA. 



Root perennial. Stem 2 to 4 or o feet high, leafy, striate-sulcate, very hairy, 

 paniculatcly branched at summit. Leaflets 2 thirds of an inch to an inch'and half 

 long, and half an inch to an inch wide, roundlsh-oval, often rather obovate. and 

 retuse, or emarginate, slightly mucronate, pubescent with appressed rather silky 



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