. 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. Botany. 18. Meibomia canadensis (L.) Kuntze. Canadian or Showy Tick-trefoil. Sain- foin. Fig. 2593. Hedysarum canadense L. Sp. PI. 748. 1753. Desmodium canadense DC. Prodr. 2: 328. 1825. M. canadensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 195. 1891. Erect, stout, pubescent, 2°-8° high. Stipules linear-lanceolate, persistent, or at length decidu- ous; lower petioles V-l' long, the upper leave
. 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. Botany. 18. Meibomia canadensis (L.) Kuntze. Canadian or Showy Tick-trefoil. Sain- foin. Fig. 2593. Hedysarum canadense L. Sp. PI. 748. 1753. Desmodium canadense DC. Prodr. 2: 328. 1825. M. canadensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 195. 1891. Erect, stout, pubescent, 2°-8° high. Stipules linear-lanceolate, persistent, or at length decidu- ous; lower petioles V-l' long, the upper leaves nearly sessile; leaflets oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or roughish above, appressed- pubescent beneath; racemes terminal, densely panicled; flowers large, 5"-8" long, conspicuous, purple or bluish-purple; bracts ovate-lanceolate, large, acute, ciliate, at length deciduous; calyx- lobes attenuate, the upper 2-toothed, the lower ones elongated; loment nearly sessile in the calyx, about l' long, 3-5-jointed; joints triangular, straight or convex on back, uncinate-pubescent. Thickets and river-banks. Nova Scotia to Mani- toba, North Carolina, Missouri. Nebraska and Okla- homa. Our most showy-flowered species. July-Sept. Beggars'-lice. 19. Meibomia rigida (Ell.) Kuntze. Rigid Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2594. Hedysarum rigid 1824. Desmodium rigidum DC. Prodr. 2 Meibomia rigida Kuntze, Rev. Ge Ell. Eot. S. C. and Ga 30. 18 PI. 198 Erect or ascending, rather rigid, finely uncinate- pubescent, 2°-3° high. Stipules small, lanceolate, deciduous; leaves petioled; leaflets ovate, oblong or oval, obtuse, thickish. scabrous above, pubes- cent, especially along the veins beneath, 1-2' long; racemes terminal, compound; flowers very small, l"-2" long, purplish; upper lobe of the calyx entire or minutely 2-toothed, the 3 lower ones slender; loment sessile in the calyx. 1-3- jointed, the joints obliquely ovate, rounded on the back, uncinate-pubescent, about i*&quo
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