Field notebook : New England
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7-17-38 appressed pubescent. Lfts about 25x12 mm ( some larger, some smaller) on slender petioles about 2cm (some less). Poduncles slender, from upper axils, now to 1cm long. In some cases longer than subtending petioles but not longer than no. Lfts rounded at tip or acuminate mucronate. St. branching [7-26-38 No flts.] in woods of glens by the "Blue Spruce". R.B.K. thinks it the same as 7-17. ?? with #937 9/638 7-17-38? Desmodium paniculatum DC G531 Walton 210: Meibonia — Kuntze BvBII 399 /No fls f2. Somewhere in same region as above. All signs point to Desmodium or Lespedeza. (See very lilac BvBII 417) Clitoria mariana L. but range seems to put this out of possibility). And none still pos. as to shape & hairiness here lfts large enough except this. St slender & stiff, somewhat grooved, looks glabrous but has a few scattered spreading hairs. Lfts thin, the largest 8.5x1.8 cm not a petiole of 4.5cm, scattered appressed hairs on both surfaces. General look if very like ill Walton) (20. BvB would be better if it showed petiole longer & stalk bet. lateral lfts & terminal lft long (1.8cm in lft* measured.) Stipules cunulate 2.5mm. Sepals sim- ilar & obvious to eye.