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DIADEI. FKIA DECANDRIA. 
Stem 4-angJfd, pubescent, branching, 2 — 6 feet long. Leaves pinnate, 
terminating with a tendril; leaflets generally. 6 pair, elliptic, but retuse 
and pointed at the summit, pubescent. Stipules 2-lobed, the lobes divar- 
icate, notched, pubescent, with a black spot at the base. Flowers axilla- 
ry, sessile, solitary or in pairs. Calyx 5-cleft, segments nearly equal, cy- 
lindrical. Seeds numerous, (about 10,) glabrous. 
; Grows about Charleston very abundantly. 
Flowers March — June. 
2. Mitchelli. Rafinesque. 
Y. pedunculis axil- 
lari bus, solitaries, mui- 
tifloris ; stipulis parvu- 
lis ; foliolis plurimis 
(10 — 14,) Iio,eari-ian- 
ceolatis, retusis, mu- 
cronatis ; leguminibus 
dispermis, pilosis. E. 
Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, many flower- 
ed; stipules small; leaf- 
lets numerous (10 — - 
14,) linear lanceolate, 
retuse, mucronate ; 
pods 2-seeded, hairy. 
Annual? humble. Stem very much branched and diffused over the 
small herbage in its neighbourhood. Leaves alternate, terminating in di- 
vided tendrils ; leaflets numerous, (8 — -14,) small, linear lanceolate, some- 
times cuneate, obtuse and emarginate at the summit, pointed by the pro- 
jecting midrib. Flowers 4 — 6 near the summit of the peduncles, rather 
more than an inch long, small, greyish white- Legumes small, very 
hairy, and I believe constantly ^ seeded. 
This species, which was first noticed at New- York, by Mr. Rafinesque 
as distinct from the Y. Pusilla, grows very abundantly on some farms in 
the vicinity of Charleston. 
Flowers March— April. 
Walt. 
3. Caroliniana. 
Y. pedunculis mul- 
tifloris, folia aequanti- 
bus, vel superantibus; 
stipulis lanceplatis, in- 
tegerrimis; foliolis 8 
— 10, eliiptico-lanceo- 
latis, pubescentibus. 
Peduncles many 
flowered, as long as 
or longer than the 
leaves ; stipules lance- 
olate, entire ; leaflets 
8 — 10, oblong lanceo- 
late, pubescent. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 1094. Walt. p. 182. Pursh. 2. p. 472. 
Y. Pamfiora? Mich. 2-p. Q9. 
