. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Meibomia grandiflora (Walt.) Kuntze. Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2577. Hedysarum grandifiorum Walt. Fl. Car. 185. 1788. H. acuminatum Michx. Fl, Bor. Am. 2 : 72, 1803. Desmodiuni acuminatum DC. Prodr, 2: 329. 1825. Meibomia grandiflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 196. 1891. Erect, glabrous, or somewhat pubescent, i°-5° high. Leaves in a cl
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Meibomia grandiflora (Walt.) Kuntze. Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2577. Hedysarum grandifiorum Walt. Fl. Car. 185. 1788. H. acuminatum Michx. Fl, Bor. Am. 2 : 72, 1803. Desmodiuni acuminatum DC. Prodr, 2: 329. 1825. Meibomia grandiflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 196. 1891. Erect, glabrous, or somewhat pubescent, i°-5° high. Leaves in a cluster at the summit of the stem, from which rises the slender peduncle; petioles ^'-6' long; stipules subulate, generally persistent; leaf- lets ovate, acuminate, 2'-6' long, pubescent with scat- tered hairs on both surfaces; panicle ample; bracts deciduous; flowers large, purple ; loment 2-3-jointed; joints longer than wide, concave above, obhquely rounded below, uncinate-pubescent; stipe as long as the pedicel. In dry or rocky woods, Quebec to Ontario, South Da- kota, Florida, Alabama, Kansas and Oklahoma. June- Sept. Beggar-ticks. 3. Meibomia pauciflora (Nutt.) Kuntze. Few-flowered Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2578. Hedysarum paucifiorum Nutt. Gen. 2: 109. 1818. Desmodium paucifiorum DC. Prodr. 2 : 330. 1825. M. pauciflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 198. 1891. Decumbent or ascending, more or less pubes- cent with scattered hairs, i°-3° long. Stipules subulate, deciduous; leaves alternate, distant, pe- tioled; leaflets ovate, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, pubescent, i'-3' long, the terminal one rhomboid; racemes terminal or sometimes also axillary, sim- ple, few-flowered ; calyx-lobes acute, ciliate ; co- rolla white, about 3" long; loment 1-4-jointed, the joints concave or straight on the back, ob- liquely rounded below, larger than those of the preceding species, uncinate-pubescent; stipe slight- ly shorter than the pedicel. In woods. Ontario to western New York, southern Pennsylv
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