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hairs and becoming somewhat purplish beneath, truncate at the 
apex, apiculate; peduncles 8 cm., 1-5 dm. long; bracts subulate, 5-7 
mm. long; flowers I cm. long, mostly solitary or geminate, remote; 
calyx-teeth lanceolate, acuminate; vexillum minutely pubescent; 
legume 3.5-4 cm. long, about 4 mm. wide, straightish, strigillose; 
seeds 5-9, oblong or oblong-ovoid, compressed, smooth, variegated 
with black. 
Dry and poor “ blackjack thickets.” Differing from C. chyy- 
sophylla in its assurgent habit, the greater number and shape of 
the leaflets, the smaller flowers and larger seeds, as well as the 
character of the pubescence on the under surface of the leaflets. 
Florida, Chapman, Curtiss; Georgia, Boykin. 
Original locality: near Jacksonville, Florida (Curtiss). 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
12. CRACCA CHRYSOPHYLLA (Pursh) Kuntze. 
Tephrosia chrysophylla Pursh, F\, Am. Sept. 489 (1814). 
Galega prostrata Nutt. Gen. 2: 120 (1818). 
Cracca chrysophylla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 174 (1891). 
Perennial from a long ligneous root. Stems prostrate, 3 dm.- 
1 m. long, dichotomously branching, clothed with a close, short, 
somewhat viscid and spreading silvery or tawny pubescence; sti-_ 
pules subulate, caducous; leaves 3—5 cm. long, oval in outline, ses- 
sile or very short petioled ; leaflets 3-9, (rarely 1-foliolate,) 1-3 cm. 
long, 7 mm.-—2 cm. wide, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, often retuse, 
sometimes apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous and yellowish-green 
above, silky hirsute and somewhat lighter or rusty beneath, the ter- 
‘minal one often conspicuously larger than the lateral ones; pe- 
duncles 4-6 cm. long, axillary, ancipital; flowers 1—-1.5 cm. long, 
few; bracts 5 mm. long, subulate, persisting ; calyx-teeth acumin- 
ate,as long as the tube ; vexillum minutely pubescent ; legume 3-4 
cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, minutely hispid, straightish, erect of 
spreading ; seeds 8—10, oblong, ovoid, or sub-orbicular; brownish or 
greenish, variegated with black. 
_ Pine lands. Truly prostrate, with prostrate leaves, widely 
spreading, forming broad mats. 
Georgia to Florida and westward. 
Original locality: In Georgia. 
CRACCA CHRYSOPHYLLA:‘CHAPMANNI n. var. 
A low prostrate slender plant with stems 2 dm. or more long; | 
aoe leaves 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 5-10 mm. long, oblong or obovate, 
