DIADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. 83 y 
i. G. stem weak, hairy backward; leaves ter- monoica, 
nate, ovate, acute, glabrous, membranaceous ; ' » 
racemes cauline, pendulous, loose, corollate for ; 
the most part sterile; bractes suborbiculate, ey 
concave.—Willd. and Pursh. 
G. bracteata, Sp. Pl. p. 754. 
A common plant in shady woods and thickets. Flowers 
blue, sometimes white. Annual. July, August. 
324. GALACTIA. Brown. Mich. Fl. Am. 2. p. 61. 
(Leguminose.) 
Calix 4-cleft, bibracteolate. Petals all ob- 
long, the vexillum broader and incumbent. 
Anthers oblong. Stigma obsolete. Stipe 
of the germ naked. Legume terete, many- 
seeded.—.Vutt. 
1. G. nearly smooth; leaves ternate, elliptic-ob- s!avells. 
long, subcoriaceous and lucid, at cither extre- 
mity, emarginate; racemes pedunculate, a little 
shorter than the leaves; flowers pedicellate; 
calix and legume smooth ; stem prostrate.—Viult. 
Dolichos regularis, Willd. 
Ervuim volubile, Walt. 
A procumbent trailing plant, with flowers of purple, red 
and white mixed. Peduncles about an inch and a half, or two 
inches long. In sandy fields, and a sandy grassy lane, a little 
south of the ferry, three miles below Kaighn’s point, Jersey. 
Perennial. June, July. 
$25. CLITORIA. Gen. pl. 1183. (Leguminose.) 
Calix campanulate (the 2 lower dentures 
longer and often falcate) or tubulous, 5- 
toothed. Corolla resupinate; veaillum very 
large and spreading, overshadowing the 
wings. Legume linear, acuminate, many- 
seeded.— Vutt. 

