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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Root perennial. Leaves ternate, leaflets lanceolate and acute, entire, 
the leaves surrounding the capitulum simple and a little hairy. Flowers 
in terminal compact heads, closely compressed, with leaves and hispid 
bracteas, flowers in each head numerous, though it seldom occurs that more 
than two mature their seed. Calyx superior, somewhat 2-lipped, fringed, 
the upper lip 2-cleft, the lower 3-parted. Corolla attached to the calyx 
yellow. Stamens monadelphous, unequal. Anthers 5 round, 5 oblong 
Tomentum 1 -celled, coriaceous, hooked at the summit. 
Grows in dry sandy soils. 
Flowers May — August. 
LESPEDEZA. Mich. 
Calyx 5-partitus, 
laciniis subaequalibus. 
Corolla; carina trans- 
verse obtusa. Lomen- 
tum lenticulare, in- 
erme, 1-spermum. 
1. Sessiliflora. 
L. erecta, subramo- 
sa; foiiolis oblongis ^ 
fasciculis florum ses- 
silibus, numerosis; lo- 
mentis calyce minuto 
subnudatis, acutis. 
Mich. 2. p. 70. Pursh. 2. p. 480. 
Calyx 5 -parted, 
segments nearly equal. 
Keel of the Corolla 
transversely obtuse. 
Pod lenticular, un- 
armed, X-seeded. 
Erect, branching ; 
leaflets oblong; clus- 
ters of flowers nume- 
rous, sessile; pods a- 
cute, scarcely covered 
by the minute calyx. 
Stem 2 — 3 feet hiqh, slender, sparingly branched, slightly pubescent 
Leaves ternate, elliptic, mucronate, sprinkled with hairs on the upper sur- 
face, very hairy underneath, common petiole about an i nch long. Flow- 
ers in small sessile clusters, sometimes in small rac ernes; catty x hairy. 
Corolla and Legume both longer than the calyx, corolla of a pale violet 
colour, legume conspicuously mucronate and hairy. 
Grows in sandy lands. 
Flowers September. 
2. StuVEI. Nutt. 
L. simplex, erecta, | Simple, erect, vil- 
villosa j foliis ovali- | lous ; leaves oval ; 
