. 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. 4o6. Vol. II. 9. Lespedeza frutescens ( L.) Brit- ton. Wand-like Bush-clover. Fig. 2605. Hedysarum 1753. 10. Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton. Slender Bush-clover. Fig. 2606. Medicago virginica L. Sp. PI. 778. I753- L. sessilifiora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 70. 1803. Lespedeca violacea van angtistifolia T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 367. 1840. Lespcde
. 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. 4o6. Vol. II. 9. Lespedeza frutescens ( L.) Brit- ton. Wand-like Bush-clover. Fig. 2605. Hedysarum 1753. 10. Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton. Slender Bush-clover. Fig. 2606. Medicago virginica L. Sp. PI. 778. I753- L. sessilifiora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 70. 1803. Lespedeca violacea van angtistifolia T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 367. 1840. Lespcdeca virginica Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 12: 64 1893. Erect, slender, simple and wand-like or branch- ed, resembling the preceding species. Leatlets linear or oblong-linear, 6"-i8" long, i"-2*" wide, truncate, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, finely pubescent beneath, or glabrate on both surfaces; clusters of both kinds of flowers ses- sile, or nearly so, crowded in the upper axils; flowers violet-purple, 2"-3" long; pod ovate, or oval-orbicular, acute, or obtuse, 2" long; pu- bescent, or nearly glabrous, much longer than the calyx. Dry soil. New Hampshire to Ontario. Mi Arkansas, Florida and Texas. Lespedeza reticulata S. Wats. Bibliog. dex i: 233. 1878. Not Pers. 1807. Lespedeza Sitivei var. intermedia S. Wats, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 147. 1890. Lespedeza frutescens Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 205. 1894- Erect, simple or branched, finely ap- pressed-pubcscent or glabrate,^ i°-3° high. Stipules subulate, 2"-3" long; petioles equalling or shorter than the leaves; leaflets oval, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, truncate or retuse at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 6"-l8" long, glabrous and dark green above, paler and pubescent beneath; flowers of both kinds in short-stalked or nearly sessile axillary clusters, gen- erally crowded toward the summit of the stem; corolla violet-purple, 2"-3&qu
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