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6. Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze. 
Galega spicata, Walt. Fl. Car. 188 (1788). 
Galega villosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 67 (1803). 
Tephrosia villosa Pers. Syn. 2: 329 (1807). 
Tephrosia paucifolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 119 (1818). 
Tephrosia hispida DC. Prodr. 2: 250 (1825). 
Galega paucifolia Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1: 122 (1837): 
Tephrosia spicata Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 296 (1838). 
Tephrosia: mollissima Bertol. Bot. Misc. g: 10, z. 3. (Bot. Zeit. > 
g: 902) fide A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. (2) 14: 115 (1852). 
Cracca spicata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 175 (1891). 
Perennial from a long, stout root, more or less rusty-hirsute, of 
villous throughout. Stems decumbent or ascending, simple or 
diffusely branching, flexuous, spreading, somewhat angled above, 
clothed with mostly spreading or reflexed rusty hairs and a shorter, 
retrose, appressed pubescence, often becoming glabrate with age 
below; stipules 5-10 mm. long, sometimes persisting ; leaves 5 
_cm.—1.5 dm. long, oblong or linear-oblong in outline, the upper 
ones subsessile, the lower short petioled (1-3 cm.); leaflets 5-15, 
1-2.5 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide, oval, oblong or cuneate- 
oblong (the terminal ones often obovate), obtuse, mucronate, often 
reflexed, minutely pubescent, silky-villous or glabrous above, rusty- 
villous beneath, often reflexed; racemes terminal and axillary; 
peduncles ancipital, ;-3 dm. long: bracts 5-10 mm. long, subulate, 
mostly persisting; flowers I-1.5 cm. long, remote, few or several 
together at the summit of the peduncle; calyx-teeth subulate, 
hispid, slightly longer than the tube; corolla white, turning 
purple; vexillum pubescent; legumes 3-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. 
wide, linear, acute, straightish ; seeds 8-12, ovoid, brown. 
Differing from C. onobrychoides in its more slender and de- 
cumbent habit, fewer flowers and less silky pubescence. Growing 
in low sandy pine lands mostly among grasses, notable for its 
ascending stems and erect peduncles. Depauperate specimens 
with the flowers in the axils of the upper leaves have been 
collected in Florida. Virginia to Florida, westward to Tennessee 
and Mississippi. 
Original locality not given. 
Type in Herb. Walter. 
CRACCA SPICATA FLEXUOSA (Chapm.) 
«Tephrosia flexuosa Chapm.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 297 
(1838). : ; 
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