708 FABACEAE 
plish, pale when opening; standard 9—12 cm. long: pod about 4 mm. wide.— 
Sand ridges, eastern coast, Fla. 
angustissima (Shuttlw.) n Stem glabrous: d B E 
blades of the lateral ones narrowly linear or very narrowly linear, 13—45 
leng: calyx 4-5 mm. long; lobes of the ad lip lanceolate; i iR? bue 
late, much longer than the lateral ones: corolla usually pale, nu reddish- 
] 
di 
purple; standard 9-11 mm. long: pod about 3 mm. wide. —Pinelands, Ever- 
glade Keys, Fla. 
19. C. purpurea L. Stem diffuse or vine-like, uda id cres leaflets 
ea blades et ps: lateral ones Eris to linear-eun 9-25 lo 
bout 6 m on 
ointed: 
E. corolla white or a ; ended 9-10 mm. oe pod 3.5-4 mm 
wide, usually curved.—Prairie, Big Cypress Swamp, S pen. Fla.—(W. I., Mez., 
C. A., S. A.)—A decoction oi from this plant is used by the Seminoles as a 
specific for nose-blee di 
20. C. cinerea (L.) Morong. Stem lax, copiously strigose: leaflets 9-17; 
blades of the lateral inc linear to elliptic-oblanceolate, 19-50 mm. long; 
obtuse or acutish: calyx 5-6 mm. long; lobes of the upper SE subulate-tipped, 
those E the lower ip m corolla purplish; standard 10-15 mm. long: 
pod 4 m. wide.—Waste-places and cult. ground, ee Plain Ala. Nat 
of ae. A I., Mex., C. A., 8. A.) 
32. GEOPRUMNON Rydb. Perennial tufted herbs. Leaflets numerous; 
blades usually not notched. Corolla purple or white or rarely ochroleucous: 
ince : a^ 
lower suture bin. the upper suture.—Six species, natives of central North 
America.—Spr.-s 
Pod pubescent, obliquely ovoid, sometimes narrowly so, beaked. 
Calyx- lobes about J& as long as the tube: pod curved, over 2 em. long, coarsely 
wrinkled, gradually poi P . G. tennesseense. 
Calyx-lobes over % as lon s the tube: pod straight, less 
than 2 cm. long, finely” Erinkled, abruptly rate 2. G. plattense, 
Pod — globose or ellipsoid-globose, beakle 3. G. crassicarpum. 
€ (A. Gray) Rydb. Plant villous-hirsute: leaflets 15-33; 
blades elliptic rg oval, 12-14 mm . long: pe eduneles about as long as the ac- 
l ir 
p : 3—3.5 
em. long, gr adually orae [ Astragalus 
plattensis tennes A. Gray]—Rocky ga 
By interior Pods m Ala. to Mo. and 
Ten 
2. G. pi Mab Rydb. Plant hir- 
sute or somewhat strigose: leaflets 13-23; 
or eate, 5— 
ong: a 
ually eurved upward: ovary pubescent: pod 
1~1.5 em. long, abruptly beaked.—Prairies, 
various provinces, Ala. to Tex. and Ind. 
