64 Psoralea melilotoides. 



Plant about twelve or eighteen inches high. Root perennial. Stem 

 erect, somewhat square, grooved, and strigosc. Stipules on the stem 

 only, linear-lanceolate, acuminated and dotted. Leaves alternate, 

 ternate, pctiolate, covered with minute glands, slightly pubescent : pu- 

 bescence appressed to the disk : central leaf on a larger petiole than 

 the side ones. Spikes linear-lanceolate, elongating in fruit, bracteate. 

 Bracts large, broad, heart-shaped, acuminate, dotted and deciduous. 

 Flowers campanula-purple, pedicellate, upright. Calix pubescent 

 deeply five-cleft. Legume one-seeded, naked, as long as the calix, 

 covered with transverse, serpentine rugae. Style persistent Grows 

 in Carolina and Florida ; and, according to Mr. Nuttall, common in 

 the open forests of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Flowers in July. 



Fig. 1. Represents the whole plant except the root, in flower. 



2. The rachis of the spike, in fruit. — Both the size of nature. 



The leaves, as in the outline fig. 3. are often twice the size of those 

 represented in fig. l. the type of which flowered from seeds of Mr. 

 Nuttall. 



