
246 PLANTS GROWING IN SANDY SOIL. 
BUSH-CLOVER, (Plate CXXV/Z) 
Lespedéza procumbens. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE _ TIME OF BLOOM 
Pulse. Purplish pink. Scentless. General. Late summer andautumn. 
Flowers: terminally clustered on peduncles. Corol/a: papilionaceous, the 
banner petal pointed at the top. ods : flat; jointed; having one seed. Leaves: 
divided into three oblong, clover-like leaflets. Stem: procumbent. 
This dainty little ground weed that hugs the earth soclosely, 
bears, besides the large terminal flowers, smaller ones that are 
intermingled with the others and grow along the branches. 
Frequently they are without petals and are the more fertile of 
the two. In sandy places in the late season members of this 
genus abound and are conspicuous by their cloverlike leaflets. 
Their smooth, single or double-jointed pods with but one seed 
also serve to distinguish them from their relatives, the Meibo- 
mias, page 224, Plate CXVI. 
L. capitata, round-headed bush-clover, bears cream-coloured - 
flowers spotted with purple in a rounded head, or capitulum, 
on very short peduncles. 
L. frutéscens, wand-like bush-clover, is an erect species with 
flowers growing closely ; thick stems and many leaves. 
L. Virginica, slender bush-clover, has flowers in oblong heads 
and linear leaflets. 
It will be noticed that the specific names of these plants, as 
is customary, indicate their peculiarities. As a genus they are 
readily recognised. 
HYSSOP SKULLCAP, (Plate CXXVIIL) 
Scutellaria integrifolia. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mint. Blue or violet. Scentless. Connecticut, south- June-August. 
ward and westward. 
Flowers: one inch long ; growing in terminal racemes. Calyx : two-lipped; 
the upper lip covered by a helmet-like little cap, Corol/a: two-lipped with 
long ascending tube, the upper lip helmet-shaped and curving over the lower 
lip, which is flaring and indented at the apex. Stamens: four,in pairs of un- 
equal iength. /yst/:; one; stigma, two-lobed. Leaves: opposite; lanceolate to 

