. 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. 3. Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers. Bush- clover. Fig. 2599. Hedysarum violaceum L. Sp. PI. 749. 1753. Lespedeza violacea Pers. Syn. 2: 318. 1807. Erect or ascending, sparingly pubescent, usually much branched, i°-3° high. Stipules subulate, 2"-3" long; petioles shorter than or equalling the rather distant leaves; leaflets oval, elliptic or eUiptic-oblon
. 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. 3. Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers. Bush- clover. Fig. 2599. Hedysarum violaceum L. Sp. PI. 749. 1753. Lespedeza violacea Pers. Syn. 2: 318. 1807. Erect or ascending, sparingly pubescent, usually much branched, i°-3° high. Stipules subulate, 2"-3" long; petioles shorter than or equalling the rather distant leaves; leaflets oval, elliptic or eUiptic-oblong, thin, obtuse or retuse at the apex, rounded at the base, 6"-2' long, appressed-pubes- cent beneath; peduncles, at least the upper ones, longer than the leaves; inflorescence loose, few- flowered, paniculate; corolla violet-purple, 3"-S" long; pod ovate or oval, acute, finely and spar- ingly pubescent, or glabrate, 2"-3" long. In dry soil. New Hampshire to Florida, west to Minnesota, Kansas, Louisiana and northern Mexico. Lespedeza prairea (Mack. & Bush) Britton, of dry' soil from Illinois and Missouri to Arkansas and Texas, has smaller leaflets and shorter-pedicelled flowers. 4. Lespedeza Manniana Mackenzie & Bush. Mann's Bush-clover. Fig. 2600. Manniana Mackenzie & Bush, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 12: 15. 1902. Stems erect or ascenanig, slender, appressed- pubescent with rather long hairs or somewhat pilose, iJ°-2i° high. Leaflets oblong or linear- oblong, I J' long or less, obtuse and mucronate at the apex, sparingly appressed-pubescent above, densely so beneath; petaliferous flowers short- racemose on slender peduncles longer than the leaves; calyx z"-4," long, about two-thirds as long as the corolla and the oval acute somewhat pubescent pod. Prairies, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, corded from Michigan. Re-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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