This has the largest and brightest coloured blossoms, perhaps, of any of the genus: the vexillum is about as
long as the carina. Raceme short and broad, obtuse, of from 7 to 10 spreading flowers. It is fully described
by Dr. Richardson, in the place above quoted, where it is observed that it is the Liquorice plant mentioned
by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, in his Voyage to the Arctic Sea.
18. LESPEDEZA. Mich.
Cal. basi bracteolatus 5-partitus, laciniis subaequalibus. Cor. papilionacea, carina
transverse obtusa. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1.) Legimen lenticulare compresso-planum
indehiscens monospermum inerme.—Caules herbacei aut suffruticosi. Folia 3 -foliolata,
foliolis integris medio petiolato. Stipulae caulince setacece. Spicae pedunculate aut sub-
racemose. Bracteas 3 -fide 2-flxyre. Flores violaceo-purpurei aut ochroleuci vexillo pur-
pureo-maculato aut rarius albi. DC.
1. L . reticulata ; erecta, simplex yel ramosa, foliolis linearibus obtusis lhucronatis
subtus strigoso-pubescentibus, racemis subumbellatis axillaribus subsessilibus, legumini-
bus reticulatis calyce majoribus. Pers. Syn. PI. v. 2. p. 318. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p.
348.—L. sessiliflora. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 70, (var.) Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p. 480. (non
Nutt.) Elliott, Carol, v. 2 . p. 204. Bigel. FI. Bost. ed. 2. p . 273.—Hedysarum reticulatum.
Muhl. in Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. p. 1194,
Hab. Canada. Dr. Holmes, (Herb. GreviUe.')
2. L . polystachya; erecta, ramosa, villosissima,.,petiolis brevissimis, foliolis rotundo-
ovalibus obtusis, spicis oblongis axillaribus folio' dupio longioribus pedunculitis, calyci-
bus coroilam aequantibus vix legumine siiblongioribus. DC.—Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 71.
t. 4,0. Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p . 480. Bigel. FI. Bost. ed. 2. p. 272. De Cand. Prodr v 2
p . 349.,
Hab. Upper Canada. Mr. Goldie. Common about Sandwich. Douglas.
3. L . prostrata; prostrata, gracilis, glabra, petiolis subabbreviatis, foliolis ellipticis
obtusis mucronatis subtus vix subpubescentibus, racemis axillaribus gracilibus dissiti-
floris folio longioribus, calycibus corolla brevioribus, leguminibus ovatis subpubescentibus.
DC.—Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p . 481. Nutt. Gen. v. 2. p. 108. Elliott, Carol, v. 2.
p . 208. Bigel. FI. Bost. ed. 2. p . 274. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p . 350.
Hab. Upper Canada. Douglas.—Tins appears tp me to be a nearly glabrous var. of L. procumbens
Mich. Am. t. 39. Of this genus, eight species are given as inhabitants mostly of the middle States of North
America; and six as growing in the vicinity of Boston. All the latter, it can scarcely be doubted, are
equally indigenous to the southern parts of Canada; never extending, perhaps, beyond the great lakes.
Hence it is that there is not a single species in Dr. Richardson’s or Mr. Drummond’s Collection; nor does any
one of them inhabit Western America. 3
T rib. IV. ViciejE. Brown. DC.
19. VICIA. Toum.
Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus aut 5-dentatus, dentibus 2 superioribus brevioribus. Cor.
papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus filiformis, angulum fere rectum cum ovario
conficiens, superne et infra apicem subtus villosus. Legumen oblongum, 1-loculare, poly-
spermum. Semina hilo laterali ovali aut lineari.-—Herbse sepius scandentes. Folia
abrupte pinnata pluri-juga, petiolo in cirrhum sepius ramosum producto, stipulis sepe
sagittatis. Pedunculi axillares aut elongati mulbiflori, aut \-Jlori breves.
* Floribus pedunculatis.
1. V. Caroliniana; glabriuscula, foliolis 8—10 elliptico-lanceolatis subalternis obtusis
mucronatis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis parvis, pedunculis multifloris, floribus
distantibus, dentibus calycinis brevibus, stylis apice villosis, leguminibus lanceolatis glabris
oblique reticulatis. DC.—“ Walt. FI. Carol, p. 182.” Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p. 472. Elliott,
Carol, v. 2. p. 224. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 355.—y. parviflora. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 69.
Hab. Upper Canada, near the Lakes. Douglas.
2. V. Americana; glabriuscula, foliolis 8—12 elliptico-lanceolatis obtusis vel retusis
nonnunquam denticulatis mucronatis, stipulis semisagittatis profunde dentatis, pedunculis
folio brevioribus'6—8-floris, leguminibus lineari-oblongis compressis reticulatis glabris;—
Muhl. in Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. p. 1096. Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p . 472. Rich, in Frankl. 1st
Joum. ed. 2. App. p. 28. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 355.—/3. minor; foliolis angustis lineari-
lanceolatis subrigidis, pedunculis 2—4-floris.
Hab. Woody country from the Falls of Niagara to Bear Lake, Dr. Richardson: to the Rocky
Mountains, Drummond. Near the source of the Columbia. Douglas, p. On the Saskatchawan about
Carlton-House, Drummond; and at Red River. Douglas.—Flowers large, handsome, purple-blue.
3. V. Cracca; caulibus ramosis, foliis apice cirrhosis, foliolis numerosis oblongis
alternis oppositisque puberulis mucronatis, nervis subparallelis simpliciusculis, stipulis
semisagittato-linearibus, pedunculis multifloris folium asquantibus vel superantibus, racemis
confertis secundis, dentibus calycinis inasqualibus, superioribus brevissimis inferioribus
tubo brevioribus, stylis apice pilosis, leguminibus oblongis coriaceis reticulatis compressis
glabris, seminibus globosis nigris. DC.-—Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1095. Mich. Am. v. 2. p. 69.
Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p. 472. Bigel. FI. Bost. ed. 2. p. 269. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p . 357.
Engl. Bot. t. 1168.
Hab. Canada. Mxchoux; Lady Dalhousie; Mrs. Perdval; Mr. Cleghom. Newfoundland. Mr.
Morrison.
4. V. gigantea; subpubescens, siccitate nigricans, caule sulcato, foliolis 20—26 oblongis
petiolulatis obtusis mucronatis, stipulis magnis semisagittatis basi profunde dentatis,
pedunculis folio multo brevioribus 5-10-floris, floribus congestis, stylo vix barbato, legu-
minibus lato-oblongis glabris obscure reticulatis.
Hab. Open woods on the Columbia. Dr. Scouler; Douglas.—This is a very remarkable plant, with
long, trailing, deeply sulcated stems, and one-third of an inch broad, hollow and herbaceous. The leaves are
eight or nine inches long, excluding the tendrils; leaflets full two inches, and stipules an inch and a half
in length. Flowers apparently purple when recent, about as large as those of V. Americana, consequently
small in proportion to the size of the plant. Style linear, downy, but scarcely bearded below the stigma.
Legumes three inches long, and three-fourths of an inch broad. The whole plant turns nearly black in drying,
like the V. nigricans, (Hook, and Arn. in Bot. o f Capt. Beecliey's Voy.'), from the western shores of
South America; and others, from the Cordillera of the same country.
# * Floribus subsessilibus.
5. V. saliva; foliis cirrhosis, foliolis 10-12 obovato-retusis vél oblongo-retusis mucronu