su DIADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. 
H. glutinosum, Muhl. 
H. acuminatum, Mich. 
About a foot or two high. Flowers purple. In woods and 
thickets, common. Perennial, July. 
nudifiorum. 9, Hf. erect, simple, smoothish; leaves ternate, 
broad-oval, acuminate; scape paniculate, gla- 
brous; joints of the loment subrotund-triangular, _ 
smoothish.—- Willd. ; 
Resembles No. 8, very closely. Flowers like the preceding. 
Perennial. June to September. 
rotundifol> 10. H. trailing, hirsute; leaves ternate, orbicu- 
ny lar, every where hairy; stipules rotund-cordate, 
reflexed; racemes axillary and paniculate, ter- 
minal, few-flowered ; bractes cordate ; joints of 
the loment sub-rhomboid, reticulate, scabrous. 
—Mich. and Pursh. 
H. canescens, Willd. ? 
Easily distinguished from any of the species of this elegant 
genus, by the round leaves. Flowers purple. In woods, on 
rocks and indry copses; common. Perennial. July. 
320. HESCHYNOMENE. Gen. pl. 1202. (Leguminose.) 
‘‘ Stamina divided into 2 equal bodies.’ 
Brown. Loment exserted, compressed, 
one of the sutures straight, the other lobed ; 
articulations truncated, 4-seeded. Calix 
bilabiate, labia dentate.—V ait. 
hispida. 1. AK. the erect stem and petioles tuberculate-his- 
pid ; leaves in many-pairs ; folioles linear, ob- 
tuse ; stipules membranaceous, semi-saggittate ; 
racemes simple, -few-flowered ; loments hispid. 
—-Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1163. 
Hedysarum Virginicum, Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1212. 
A striking and elegant plant, about two feet high. Flowers 
yellow, veined with red. On the banks of the Delaware be- — 
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