. 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. 9. Lespedeza frutescens (L.) Brit- ton. Wand-like Bush-clover. Fig. 2605. Hedysarum frutescens L. Sp. PI. 748. I753' Lespedeza reticulata S. Wats. Bibliog. In- dex i: 233. 1878. Not Pers. 1807. Lespedeza Stuvei 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, fine
. 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. 9. Lespedeza frutescens (L.) Brit- ton. Wand-like Bush-clover. Fig. 2605. Hedysarum frutescens L. Sp. PI. 748. I753' Lespedeza reticulata S. Wats. Bibliog. In- dex i: 233. 1878. Not Pers. 1807. Lespedeza Stuvei 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-pubescent 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"-i8" 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" long; pod ovate-oblong, acute, pubes- cent, about 2" long, much longer than the calyx. Dry soil, Maine to Ontario, Minnesota, Florida. Illinois and Texas. II. Lespedeza simulata Mackenzie & Bush. Intermediate Bush-clover. Fig. 2607. L. simulata Mackenzie and Bush, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 12 : 18. 1902. Erect, stems glabrate or short-pubescent, 3° high or less. Leaflets oblong-linear to oblong-elliptic, 4-2' long, 2"-6" wide, obtuse and mucronate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, appressed- pubescent and more or less silvery especially be- neath; spike sessile or short-peduncled, not longer than the leaves, rather densely several-flowered; petaliferous flowers purplish, 3"-4" long; calyx densely pubescent, 2i"-3" long, nearly as long as the corolla, and two-thirds as long to longer than the densely pubescent ovate acute pod.
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