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DIADELPHIA DECANDRXA. 
Biennial ? Stem decumbent, thickly clothed with long, soft, silken hair* 
Stipules 10 — 15 lines long. Petioles 2 — 3 inches. Leaves 3 — 5 inch- 
es long, acute, beautifully villous when young. Calyx with lateral seg-? 
ments. Spikes long. Flowers rather irregular on the spikes. Corolla 
handsome, of a bright reddish purple, most deeply coloured in the centre 
of the vexillum. Legume very lanuginous, resembling a ball of silky 
wool. Seeds small, variegated. 
Grows in the dryest sands. 
Flowers in the beginning of April. 
3. Diffusus. Nutt. 
L. villosus,sericeus; 
caulibus plurimis, dif- 
fusis, decumbentibus; 
foliis simplicibus, ob- 
longo-obovatis ; peti- 
olis stipulisque brevi- 
bus, nudisque, Nutt. 
2. p. 93. 
Villous, silken ; 
stems numerous, dif- 
fuse, decumbent | 
leaves simple, oblong, 
obovate; petioles and 
stipules short and na- 
ked. 
Perennial, spreading diffusely in large patches. The petioles rarely ex- 
ceeding an inch in length, and destitute of long woolly hairs. Stipules 2 
—3 lines long. Leaves obtuse, attenuated towards the base, 2 — 3 inches 
long. 
I have adopted this species from Mr. Nuttall, without having had it in 
my power to determine how far it differs essentially from the preceding. 
Grows very abundantly on the poor sand hills in the middle country. 
Flowers April. 
CROTALARIA, 
Corollce vexillum 
cordatum, magnum ; 
carina acuminata. Fi- 
lamenta connata cum- 
fissura dorsali. Le- 
gumen pedicellatum, 
turgidum. 
Gen. Pl. 1172. 
Vexillum of the co- 
rolla cordate, large ; 
the keel acuminate. 
Filaments united, with 
a dorsal fissure. Poet 
turgid, pedicellate. 
