EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. 



The figures are all one-half natural size and are nearty all drawn from herbarium 

 specimens of Maryland plants. 



Figure 1. Leaf of wild indigo. 



2. Pod of same. 



3. Loaf and pod of rattle-box. 



4. Leaf and cluster of pods of black medic. 

 Leaf and pod of alfalfa. 



C. Lear and ; lower cluster of sweet clover. 



7. Leaf aud pod of cracca. 



8. Leaf of cat-gut. 

 0. Leaf and pod of pencil flower. 



10. Pod and partly folded leaf of joint vetch. 



11. Leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia grandiflora). 



12. Leaf of bush-clover (Lespedeza capitata). 



13. Pod of beggar-tick (Meibomia grandiflora). 



14. Small leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia arenicola). 



15. Leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia canescens). 



16. Pod of same. 



17. Leaf and pod of beggar-tick (Meibomia obtusa). 



18. Leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia Michauxii). 



19. Leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia paniculata). 



20. Pod of same. 



21. Pod and leaf of beggar-tick (Meibomia stricta). 



22. Leaf of bush-clover (Lespedeza hirta). 



23. Pod and small leaf of bush-clover (Lespedeza procumbens). 



24. Leaf a-nd two pods of bush-clover (Lespedeza repens). 



25. Leaf of Japan clover. 



26. Leaf and cluster of pods of bush-clover '(Lespedeza Stuvei). 



27. Leaf of bush-clover (Lespedeza Virginica). 



28. Leaf and pod of butterfly-pea (Bradburya), 



29. Pod of butterfly-pea (Clitoria). 

 30 Leaf and pod of hog peanut (Falcata comosa). 



31. Leaf of ground-nut. 



32. Small leaf and flower of wild bean (Strophostyles umbellata) 



33. Leaf and pod of Dolicholus. 



34. Pod of wild senna. 



35. Leaf of wild bean (Strophostyles helvola). 

 Leaf of lupine. 



'M. Leaf and head of yellow clover. 



38. Leaf of hop-clover. 



'.','.). Leaf of rabbit clover. 



40. Leaf of alsike clover. 



41. Leaf of white clover. 



