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Original locality : Sandy woods near Wilmington, North Caro- 
lina. 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
10, CRACCA HISPIDULA (Michx.) Kuntze. 
Galega hispidula Michx, F1. Bor. Am. 2: 68 (1803). 
Tephrosia hispidula Pers. Syn. 2: 329 (1807). 
Lephrosia gracilis Nutt. Gen. 2: 119 (1818). 
Lephrosia elegans Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7; 105 (1834). 
Cracca hispidula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 174 (1891). 
Perennial from a slender, woody base, minutely appressed- 
hispid or glabrate. Stems 1-3 dm. or more long, decumbent or 
assurgent, dichotomously branching, straggling, angled; stipules 
2-5 mm. long, subulate, sometimes persisting; leaves 3-6 cm. 
long, linear-oblong in outline, short-petioled, (5-10 mm.) the 
upper ones often sessile; leaflets 7-13, elliptical, oval-oblong, or 
linear-oblong, 8 mm.—2 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, acutish, some- 
times obtuse, apiculate, reflexed, glabrous above, appressed hirsute 
with whitish hairs and the veins often turning purplish beneath ; 
peduncles terminal and axillary, ancipital, 5-1o cm. long; flowers 
solitary or geminate, scattered at the summit of the peduncle, 10- 
12 mm. long; bracts 2-5 mm. long, setaceous; calyx-teeth acute 
as long as the tube; vexillum minutely pubescent; legume about 
4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, straightish or slightly falcate, minutely 
hispid ; seeds 8-12, ovoid or nearly orbicular, brownish. 
Low pine lands, sandy soil, stems ascending, rarely prostrate 
or trailing, leaves and peduncles erect, leaflets reflexed, smaller 
and more acute than the other species in this section. 
Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, westward to Louisiana. 
Original localities: Virginia, Carolina and Georgia. 
Type in Herb. Michaux. 
11. CrRaccA SMALLII. 
Cracca intermedia Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 303 (1894), not 
Tephrosia intermedia Graham; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 2: 112 (1879). 
Perennial from a woody base, pubescent throughout and some- 
what viscid. Stems 4-6 dm. long, branched from the base, spread- 
ing, assurgent, flexuous, more or less angled; stipules subulate, 
caducous; leaves oblong-obovate in outline,6-12cm. long; petioles 
I-cm. long; leaflets 3-11, oblong-obovate, I-3 cm. long, 6-14 mm. 
wide, glabrous and yellowish-green above, strigose with whitish 
