. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Stylosanthes riparia Kearney. Decumbent Pencil- flower. Fig. 2574. Stylosanthes riparia Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 565. 1897. Stems decumbent, or ascending, 3-12' long, usually with a tomentose line on the elongated internodes. Stipules sheath- ing, subulate above; petioles pubescent; leaflets elliptic to obovate-cuneate, the terminal one 5"-9" long, the late
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Stylosanthes riparia Kearney. Decumbent Pencil- flower. Fig. 2574. Stylosanthes riparia Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 565. 1897. Stems decumbent, or ascending, 3-12' long, usually with a tomentose line on the elongated internodes. Stipules sheath- ing, subulate above; petioles pubescent; leaflets elliptic to obovate-cuneate, the terminal one 5"-9" long, the lateral ones somewhat smaller; spikes terminal, about 6-flowered, with only I or 2 perfect flowers; calyx-tube conspicuously veined, about 2" long; vexillum proportionately longer than in 5. biflora; floral bracts usually deeply cleft to the middle, or beyond, 2-nerved; upper (perfect) segment of the pod nearly twice as broad as in 6". biflora. In dry woods, Pennsylvania and Delawa Alabama and Tennessee. May-Aug. West Virgin!: 37. ZORNIA Gmel. Syst. 2: 1096. 1791. Herbs, with digitately 4-foliolate or 2-foliolate petioled leaves, the leaflets not stipellate, the stipules small or foliaceous, sagittate. Flowers yellow in our species, small, interruptedly spicate. large-bracted. sessile, rarely solitary, the spikes axillary and terminal, peduncled. Bracts 2 together, nearly enclosing the flower. Calyx 2-lipped, 5-lobed, its tube short. Standard nearly orbicular, clawed; wings oblique; keel incurved. Stamens monadelphous; anthers alternately longer and shorter. Ovary sessile; ovules several; style very slender. Loment flat, several-jointed. [In honor of Johann Zorn, a German apothecary.] About 12 species, all natives of America, 2 of them naturalized in the warmer regions of the Old World, the following typical. Besides the following, another occurs in the southwestern states. I. Zornia bracteata (Walt.) Gmel. Zornia. Fig. 2575. Aiionynios bracteata Walt. Fl. Car. 181, Zorni
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