Medicago hispida Gaertn.

PLANTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
COLLECTED ON THE ISLAND OAHU, IN AND ON THE
SLOPES OF MAKIKI,
By A. A. Heller, March 21, 1895.
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Medicago intertexta Mill.. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8. No. 4. 1768.
-Rathpr common about Honolulu, in yards, gardens, and grassy
placés along the streets, but not noticed at any distance from
cultiviated land. Flowers small, yellow. The creeping stems
are often three or four feet long. Not recorded as growing in
the Hawaiian Islands. The. Index Kewensis says that M. inter-
texta Willd. Sp. PI. 3:1411, is equal to M. ciliaris Crock., a
name which has been used four times in the genus. Whatever
the latter plant may be, M. intertexta of Willdenow is identical
with Miller’s plant, and was not published às a new species, as
can readily be seen by referring to the Species Plantarum,
where Willdenow says: “Medica leguminibus cochleatis spin-
osissimus, acnleis, ütrinque tendentibus, Mill. Diet. n. 4.”
March. 22.11982 ).
herbarium
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
new York.
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