. 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 . 2. Meibomia grandiflora (Walt.) Kuntzc. Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2577. Hedysarum grandiflonim Walt. Fl. Car. 185. 1788. H. acuminatum Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 72. 1803. Besmodium 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, fr
. 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 . 2. Meibomia grandiflora (Walt.) Kuntzc. Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2577. Hedysarum grandiflonim Walt. Fl. Car. 185. 1788. H. acuminatum Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 72. 1803. Besmodium 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 i'-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-j ointed ; joints longer than wide, concave above, obliquely 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 (Xutt.) Kuntze. Few-flowered Tick-trefoil. Fig. 2578. Hedysarum pauciftorum Nutt. Gen. 2: 109. 1818. Desmodium pauciflorum DC. Prodr. 2: 330. 1825. M. pauciflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 198. 1891. Decumbent or ascending, more or less pubes- cent with scattered hairs, l°-3° long. Stipules subulate, ckciilniiMs; leaves alternate, distant, pe- tiolcd; kallrts <.\:iic. olituse or bluntly acuminate, pubescent. 1' ,?' l-m;-;. the terminal one rhomboid; racemes tcrniinal .ir snnietimes also axillary, sim- ple, few-flnwcred ; 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 Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio,
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