D1ADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
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2 — 4 inches long. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, small. Racemes or rather 
panicles, 1 — 3 in each axil but not of the same age, 4 — 8 inches long. 
Two small hairy bracteas at the base of each calyx. Calyx 2 lipped? the 
upper lip nearly truncate and emarginate, the lower 3 cleft, the segments 
broad, short, acute. Corolla purple, vexillum large, reflected, the keel 
compressed, spiral. Legumen broad, falcate, mucronate. Seeds nume- 
rous, attached alternately to each valve. 
Grows in damp rich land. Along the margins of swamps. 
Flowers July — September. 
STROPHOSTYLES. E. 
Carina cum stami- 
nibus styloque spiral 
iter torta. Legumen 
teres, subbiloculare. 
Semina cylindrico-re- 
niformia. 
1 Angulqsa. 
S. foliis ternatis, 
foliolis angulatis, bilo- 
bis trilobisque ; pe- 
dunculo foliis longiore; 
floribus capitatis. 
Glycine angulosa. Sp. pi. 3. p. 
Phaseolus trilobus. Mich, 2. p. 
Keel with the sta- 
mens and style spiral- 
ly twisted. Legumen 
terete, somewhat bi- 
locular. Seed reni- 
form, nearly cylindri- 
cal. 
.. 
Leaves ternate, leaf- 
lets angular 2 — 3 lo- 
bed; peduncles longer 
than the leaves; flow- 
ers in heads. 
1056. Muhl. Cat. p. 64. 
60. Pursh. 2. p. 470. 
Annual. Stem prostrate, a little scabrous and hairy. Leajlets a little 
hairy particularly along the veins and margin, sometimes distinctly 3 lo- 
bed, sometimes only angled, with one lateral lobe entire and the other 
wanting. Common Petioles about 2 inches long. Flowers (8 — 14) 
clustered at the summit of peduncles 4 to 6 inches long. Stipules small, 
acute, membranaceous. Calyx 4-cleft, the upper segment oval, slightly 
2-cleft. Corolla purple ; the vexillum reflected ; wings short, erect ; keel 
acuminate, spirally twisted, depressing the vexillum. Stamens diadelphous, 
long, and with the style included in the carina and bending with it. Le- 
gume terete, slender, pubescent. Seeds many, reniform, somewhat cylin- 
drical. 
On the sea coast of Carolina the leaves of this plant vary as I have de- 
scribed them. Dr. Baldwin sent me, from the neighbourhood of St. Ma- 
ry’s, specimens much more distinctly 3-lobed and resembling very strong- 
