An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . clusters. Common. July-Sept. 10. D. rigidum, (Ell.) DC. (Fig. 10, pi. 79.) Rigid rigid, branched, somewhat whitish hairy, as is the lower surfaceof the leaves. Height 2 to 3 ft. Leaflets long egg-shaped, blunt at eachend, hairy underneatli and on edges. Flowers small, purplish, in com-pound clusters. Pods 1 to 3 jointed. Common. July-Oct. 17. D. marylandicum, (L.) DC. (Fig. 5, pi. 78.) Smooth Small-l
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . clusters. Common. July-Sept. 10. D. rigidum, (Ell.) DC. (Fig. 10, pi. 79.) Rigid rigid, branched, somewhat whitish hairy, as is the lower surfaceof the leaves. Height 2 to 3 ft. Leaflets long egg-shaped, blunt at eachend, hairy underneatli and on edges. Flowers small, purplish, in com-pound clusters. Pods 1 to 3 jointed. Common. July-Oct. 17. D. marylandicum, (L.) DC. (Fig. 5, pi. 78.) Smooth Small-leaved Erect, slender, nearly smooth, 2 to 3 ft. broad egg-shaped with rounded ends J to J in, long on a leaf-stalk about the length of the lateral ones. Flowers quite small, 1 to 3 jointed. Common. July-Sept. 18. D. obtusum, (Muhl.) DC. Hairy Small-leaved like the last, but covered with silky rather rough hairs. Leavescrowded on short leaf-stalks, leaflets broad egg-shaped or round. Com-mon. July-Oct. 19. LESPEDEZA, , with ;]-foliate leaves, with small stipules or without any. Flowers PEA FAMILY 353. Plate 791. Lespedeza angustifolia. 2. L. violacea. 3 L. Stuvei. 4. L. L. cajjitata. 0. L. virginica. 7 L. frutesccns. 8. L. hirta. 9. L. Nuttallii10. Desiuodium rigiduui. 11. D. canadense. 354 PAPILIONACEAE often of two kinds (staminate and pistillate, and pistillate only), theformer with purplish corolla, the latter without petals or with minuteones. Pods of a single, one-seeded joint, lens-shaped. Keel of the corollavery obtuse. All the flowers having stamens and pistils, corolla yellowish or whitish, flowersin dense spikes or heads. Leaflets broadly oval or nearly round L. hirta Leaflets oblong or narrowly oblong L. capitata Leaflets linear L. angustifolia Flowers purple, of 2 kinds, those which are perfect (stamens and pistils) butseldom fertile. The smaller, pistillate only, with very small
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