DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
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Perennial 7 much branched, running over shrubs 8 — 10 feet high. 
Leaves terminating with a 3-cleft tendril ; leaflets 8 — 10, elliptic or ovate, 
generally obtuse. Floivers very numerous, on long peduncles. Calyx 
hairy, segments short and obtuse. Corolla white, the vexillum marked 
with a black spot. The Legume somewhat falcate, mucronate. Seed# 
numerous, small. 
Grows in damp rich soils, frequent along the margins of swamps. 
Flowers April. 
4. Acutifolia. E. 
Y. pedunculis pau- 
cifloris, folia superan- 
tibus ; stipulis lanceo- 
latis, integris; foliolis 
paucis (6) linearibus, 
utrinque acutis; caule 
glabro. 
Peduncles few flow- 
ered, longer than the 
leaves; stipules lance- 
olate, entire ; leaflets 
few (6) linear, acute 
at each end; stem gla- 
Perennial? Stem glabrous, somewhat angled, running over small 
shrubs 2 — 3 feet high. Leaves terminating in a tendril, generally undivi- 
ded 5 leaflets 3 pair, sessile, glabrous, 10 — 15 lines long, very acute. 
Floivers few in my specimens, not exceeding 5 on the long peduncles. 
Upper lip of the Calyx nearly truncate. Corolla white. Legume gla- 
brous, very slightly falcate, mucronate, many seeded. Seeds small. 
Grows in Scriven county, Georgia. 
Flowers April — May. 
PHACA. Gen. Pe. 1378. 
Carina obtusa. 
Stylus imherbis. 
Stigma capitatum. 
Legumen semibiiocu- 
Jare, inflatum. 
1. VlLLOSA. 
P. subacaulis, pilo- 
sissima; foliolis ovali- 
bus ; pedunculis folia 
subtequantibus; legu- 
VOL. IX. F 
Keel obtuse. Style 
unbearded. Stigma 
capitate. Pod infla- 
ted, semibilocular. 
Humble, very hairy; 
leaflets oval ; pedun- 
cles as long as the 
leaves ; pods hoary, 
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