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Leaflets 5—13-oblong or oblong-obovate, strigose beneath. 
13. C. Floridana, 
Flowers few, in short-peduncled somewhat spicate racemes, exceeding the leaves. 
Stems prostrate or ascending; leaflets, 13-17, oblong or linear-oblong, cinereous- 
PuOercenh ce i aes a ee 14. C. cinerea, 
I. CRACCA VIRGINIANA L, 
Cracca Virginiana L. Sp. Pl. 752 (1753). 
Galega Virginiana L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2: 1062 (1763). 
Tephrosia Virginiana Pers. Syn. 2: 329 (1807). 
Perennial from a woody base and long, tough, ligneous root, 
villous-pubescent or canescent throughout. Stems growing in 
patches, simple, erect, 3-6 dm. high, angled and striate; leaves 
elliptical or linear-oblong in outline, 6-10 cm. or more long, sub- 
sessile; stipules caducous; leaflets 11-21, 1-3 cm. long, linear- 
oblong or elliptical, obtuse or acutish, apiculate, glabrous or nearly 
so above, silky-villous beneath, often becoming-glabrate with age; 
raceme terminal, oblong, sessile; pedicels 5-10 mm. long; calyx 
silky-villous, the teeth acuminate, cuspidate, mostly longer than 
the tube; corolla cream-colored, streaked with purple or pink; 
vexillum pubescent on the outer surface; legume 3-5 cm. long, 
4-5 mm. wide, straight or somewhat falcate, villous; seeds 4-8 
oblong-ovoid, rounded or truncate at the ends, brownish, mottled 
with black. ; 
Dry sandy soil, throughout the eastern half of the United 
States and Canada to North Mexico. 
Original locality: Virginia, Canada. 
Type in Herb. Linn. 
CRACCA VIRGINIANA HOLOSERICEA (Nutt). 
Tephrosia holosericea Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 105 (1834). 
Tephrosia Virginiana var. holosericea Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am.. 
I: 296 (1838 . 
Stems and racemes densely villous; leaflets sericeous on both 
sides, often sub-lanceolate and acute; legume densely villous or 
tomentose, 
Arkansas (Nuttall), Illinois (Pitcher), Wisconsin (Liders), 
Louisiana (Hale). 
Original locality: Plains of Arkansas. 
2. CRACCA LEUCANTHA (H. B. K.) Kuntze. 
Tephrosia leucantha H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 6: 460, 4 577 (182 3). 
Cracca leucantha Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 175 (1891). 
