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-  PSORALEA melilotoides. 
Melilot Psoralea. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LecuMInos®. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea. Leg. 1-loc. 2-valy.==PAPILIONACER. Brown in append. to 
#lind. voy. 2. 
PSORALEA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 223. 
Div. Foliis ternatis. 
P. melilotoides, foliis omnibus ternatis, foliolis lanceolatis, peguncwlp folio 
longioribus spicatis: spicis lineari-lanceolatis, bracteis calyce !ongioribus. 
Solander MSS; (sub. P. Asphaltite). 
Psoralea melilotoides. Michaux bor. amer. 2. 58. Pursh amer, sept. 2. 475. 
Ventenat malm..94._ Curtis’s magaz. 2063. 
Psoralea Melilotus. . Persoon syn. 2. 347. 
Psoralea Asphaltites. Solander in Herb. & Sched, banksianis. Specimine 
spontaneo sicco assumpta. 
Melilotus psoraloides. Nuttall gen. 2. 104. 
Trifolium psoralioides. Walt. carol. 184. 
Hedysarum leguminibus monospermis, foliis ternatis foliolis lanceolatis. 
Gron. virg. ed. 1, 87; (affirmante specimine archetypo Claytoni in Herb. 
Gronov. in Mus. banks. Hoc malé a Linnwo HEDYSARO violaceo, nunc 
LESPEDEZE violacee, pro synonymo adjunctum est.) 
Melilotus flore violaceo, odore remisso. Clayton n. 103. (ex specim. arche- 
typo). 
Ono ey chis (forte) Asphaltites angustiori folio triphyllo floribus purpureis 
spicatis ex terra mariana. Pluk. mant. 140; (affirmante specimine Herbar. 
Pluknetiani pag. 133; fide Solandri). 
Caulis angulatus, erectus, ramis caule brevioribus. Fol. alterna, ternata, 
petiolata: petiolo communi unciali: foliola lanceolata, obtusiuscula, sub- 
glabra sed punctis callosis utrinque adspersa, equalia: impar longius a reli- 
quis remotum quam illa a basi (in superioribus, inferiora non vidi).  Sti- 
pul Jineares, lanceolate, punctis adsperse. Pedunculi é supremis alis, 
undé subterminales, foliis duplo v. triplo longiores. Flores subsessiles spicati: 
spica lineari-lanceolata. alyces punctis glandulosis adspersi. Bractex 
punctis magis callosis adsperse, ovate, acuminate, floribus 3-plo longiores, 
eosque arcté includunt ante explicationem dum bractee cadunt; valdé enim 
caduce sunt. Soland. |. c.=Perennis, herbacea, pubescens. Racemus longis- 
simé pedunculatus. Cal. varicoso-venosus. Cor. violaceo-pallens. Ale du- 
plo longiores carinad v. ultra. Legumen monospermum, nudum, longitudine 
calycis, gibbosum, transverse rugosum, stylo persistente resupinato termina- 
tum. Nuttall loc. cit. (ex anglico.) 
By the inspection of the corresponding sample in the 
Claytonian Herbarium, from which the Flora Virginica was 
compiled by Gronovius, we are certain that our plant be-» 
longs to the species cited from the first edition of that work; 
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