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8. CRACCA ANGUSTISSIMA (Shuttlw.) Kuntze. 
Tephrosia angustissima Shuttleworth ; Chapm. Fl. 96 (1860). 
Cracca angustissima Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 174 (1891). 
Perennial from a somewhat woody base, very slender, glabrate 
or minutely pubescent. Stems 3-6 dm. long, prostrate, diffusely 
branching, flexuous; stipules 3-7 mm. long, setaceous, persist- 
ing; petioles 3-9 cm. long; leaves linear-oblong in outline; 
leaflets 5-17, 1-3 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, linear, acute at 
each end, minutely pubescent beneath; racemes terminal or axil- 
lary ; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; flowers 8-12 mm. long, solitary 
or geminate; bracts setaceous, persisting; pedicels 7-10 mm. 
long; calyx-teeth subulate, about the length of the tube; vexillum 
pubescent; legume 3 cm. or more, 4 mm. wide, minutely hirsute, 
somewhat inflated at maturity; seeds 6-8, ovoid, truncate at the 
ends, black. ' 
Pine barrens, South Florida, near Eau Gallie, Indian River, 
A. H. Curtiss, N. Am. Pl. No. 584. 
Original locality: South Florida, Rugel. 
g. Cracca Ampicua (M. A. Curtis) Kuntze. 
Galega ambigua Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1: 121 (1837). 
Tephrosia hispidula pg. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Am. 1: 297 (1838). 
Liphrosia ambigua Chapm. F1. 96 (1860). 
Cracca ambigua Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 174 (1891). 
Perennial from a woody base, and long, ligneous root, hirsute 
with short spreading, somewhat viscid hairs. Stems 3-4 dm. or 
more high, trailing or assurgent, often purplish, dichotomously 
branching, straggling, angled; stipules 5-7 mm. long, lanceolate, 
persisting; petioles 3-8 cm. long; leaves 7 cm—1.5 dm. long, 
remote, linear-oblong in outline; leaflets 7-11, linear-oblong to 
cuneate-oblong or obovate, 2-14 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, acutish 
or mostly obtuse, apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous and yellowish- 
green above, appressed hirsute with whitish hairs and the veins 
often turning reddish or purplish beneath; peduncles 1-1.5 cm. 
long, ancipital; flowers few, 10-12 mm. long; bracts 5 mm. long, 
persisting; calyx-teeth subulate, as long as the tube; vexillum 
pubescent; legume 4 cm. or more long, 4 mm. wide, straightish ; 
seeds 8-13, ovoid, brown, variegated with black. 
High pine lands, dry sandy soil. Trailing, with ascending 
and almost erect leaves, leaflets and peduncles, or stems ascending — | 
with a somewhat bushy habit. 
North Carolina and Florida, westward to Mississippi. 
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