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Hairy Bush Clover 

 Lespcdcza hirta (Linnaeus) Hornemann 



Plate 1 13a 



Stems rather stiff, erect and usually stout, simple or branched above, 

 densely hairy or softly pubescent, 2 to 5 feet high. Leaflets three, oval 

 or suborbicular, blunt at each end, or often notched at the apex, one-half 

 to 2 inches long; the petioles shorter than the leaflets. Flowers in oblong- 

 cylindric, rather dense heads on stalks which are much longer than the 

 leaves; flowers all complete; corolla yellowish white, usually the standard 

 with a purple spot near its base. Fruiting pod oval, pointed, hairy and 

 about as long as the slender calyx lobes. 



In dry or sandy soil, Maine to Ontario and Minnesota, south to 

 Florida. Louisiana and Texas. Flowering from August to October. 



The Round-headed Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata 

 Michaux) is similar but the stalks bearing the flower clusters are shorter 

 than the leaves, forming a more compact inflorescence. Its range and 

 period of flowering are about the same. 



Beach Pea; Seaside Pea 



Lathyrus maritimns (Linnaeus) Bigelow 



Plate us 



Root perennial, stem glabrous or nearly so, stout, somewhat fleshy 

 and slightly glaucous, angled, decumbent, 1 to 2 feet long with broad 

 foliaceous, hastate, pointed stipules 1 to 2 inches long. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, pinnate, the rachis terminating in a slender, forked tendril; leaflets 

 six to twelve, oblong, oval or obovate, blunt and mucronulate at the 

 apex, usually narrowed at the base, i to i\ inches long, one-half to 

 three-fourths of an inch wide. Flowers six to ten on peduncles 3 to 4 

 inches long, purple, three-fourths to 1 inch long; calyx teeth often ciliate. 

 Fruit a sessile, linear-oblong, nearly glabrous, veined pod, \\ to 3 inches 

 long and about one-half of an inch wide. 



