. 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. Kraunhia frutescens (L.) Greene. Ameriean or Woody Wisteria. Fig. 2524. Glycine frutescens L. Sp. PI. 753. 1753. Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2; 116. 1818. Wisteria frutescens Poir. in Lam. 111. 3 : 674, Krauhnia frutescens Greene, Pittonia 2: 17; Bradleia frutescens Britton, Man. 549. 1901 Climbing over trees and bushes to a length of 30°-40° or more, forming a stem
. 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. Kraunhia frutescens (L.) Greene. Ameriean or Woody Wisteria. Fig. 2524. Glycine frutescens L. Sp. PI. 753. 1753. Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2; 116. 1818. Wisteria frutescens Poir. in Lam. 111. 3 : 674, Krauhnia frutescens Greene, Pittonia 2: 17; Bradleia frutescens Britton, Man. 549. 1901 Climbing over trees and bushes to a length of 30°-40° or more, forming a stem several inches in diameter. Leaves petioled; rachis and short stalks of the leaflets often pubescent; leaflets 9-15, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate but blunt at the apex, rounded at the base, entire, l'-2' long, glabrous and dark-green above, pale and sometimes slightly pube.'icent beneath; ra- cemes dense, 2'-y' long; pedicels 2"-3" long; calyx finely pubescent, sometimes with club- shaped glands; corolla lilac-purple, 6"-g" long; auricles of the wings one short and one slender; pod linear, 2-3' long. In low grounds, Virginia to Florida, Arkansas and Texas. Kidney-bean tree. Virgin's-bower. April- 2. Kraunhia macrostachys (T. &G.) Small. Long-clustered Wisteria. Fig. 2525. Wistaria frutescens var. macrostachys T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 283. 1838. Wistaria macrostachys Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 283. As synonym. 1838. K. macrostachys Small, Bull. Torr. Club 25: 134. 1898. A vine, sometimes 20°-25° long. Stem becoming li' thick, branching; leaves 4'-8' long; leaflets usually 9, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, i'-23' long, acuminate, or acute, rounded or cordate at the base; racemes 8'-i2' long, loosely-flowered, drooping; rachis and pedicels densely hirsute and glandular, with club-shaped glands: calyx pubescent like the pedicels, the tube campanulate, the segments lanceolate, lateral ones about as long as the tube, lower one longer
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