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small awn, slightly twisted, & on a short footstalk, Flowers terminating the little branches, in pairs, threes, or several together, forming a little umbel. Standard and wings yellow, claws white, the former with a red obscure semicircular ring. Keel greenish white. Legumen covered with small hairs Style ending in a hook. Seeds 2. It differs from parvifolia in growing erect, & of a darker color. The leaves being longer and not so much twisted. Its flowers being on a slender thread like peduncle, Leaves solitary, in pairs threes, or scattered, younger part of the branches & teeth of the calyx sometimes slightly pubescent, Floral leaves a few small minute scales on the general & partial fruit-stalks.
Oct 1801
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Ogdenia
Flowers solitary, in the axilla of the leaves, nearly sessile, with 2 small opposite leaves at the base of the calyx - The filament when handled gives a soft touch, & yields an elasticity
July 1801