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 . outhern part of our area. 6. D. glabellum, (IVIichx.) DC. TRAn,iNo Tick-trefoil. Plant pro-cumbent, stems sometimes 8 ft. long, smooth or nearly so. Leatlets eg^-shaped or oval, the terminal one somewliat rhomboid. Flower clustersterminal or axillary, flowers purple. Pods 2 to 5 jointed, the jointssomewhat rough to the touch. Dry woods. 7. D. sessilifolium, (Torr.) T. and G. (Fig. 6, pi. 78.) Sess
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 . outhern part of our area. 6. D. glabellum, (IVIichx.) DC. TRAn,iNo Tick-trefoil. Plant pro-cumbent, stems sometimes 8 ft. long, smooth or nearly so. Leatlets eg^-shaped or oval, the terminal one somewliat rhomboid. Flower clustersterminal or axillary, flowers purple. Pods 2 to 5 jointed, the jointssomewhat rough to the touch. Dry woods. 7. D. sessilifolium, (Torr.) T. and G. (Fig. 6, pi. 78.) Sessile-leaved TicK-iKKi oil. Stems silky, 2 to 4 ft. high. Leaflets linear, ob-tuse at each end, almost irithout leafstalk. Lpper surface rough, lowersilky. Flowers small in long simple clusters. Dry soil ineastern part of our region. July-Sept. 8. D. strictum, (Pursh.) DC. Stiff Tick-trefoil. Erect, verystraight, 2 to 3 ft. high, silky. Leaflets narrow linear, 1 to 2 in. long,obtuse at base, strongly reticulated, not hairy, smooth, on leaf stalkswhich are i to ^ in. long. Joints of pod 1 to 3 (mostly 1). Flowerssmall on slender scapes. July-Sept. PEA FAMILY 351. Plate 781. Desmodium niulilloruin. 2. D. grandiflorum. 3. D. canescens. 4. D,rotundifolium. 5. D. marylandicum. G. D. sessilifolium. 352 PAPILIONACEAE 9. D. canescens, (L.) DC. (Fig. 3, pi. 78.) Hoaey branching, densely hairy with soft downy hairs, 3 to 5 ft. egg-shaped, on leaf stalks about as long as the terminal leaflets,rather rough above and below, the under side reticulated and small on long hairy scapes. Pods of about 4 joints. Mass., andsouthward. July-Sept. 10. D. bracteosum, (Michx.) DC. Large-bracted , straight, smooth below, somewhat silky on the flower stalk, 3 to6 ft. high. Leaflets 2 to 8 in. long, egg-shaped with long slender large, purple. Joints of pod 3 to 5. Thickets. Common. 11. D. paniculatum, (
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