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apiculate, glabrous above, appressed silky-hirsute beneath ; legume 
2 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, minutely hirsute, 4-7 seeded. 
St. Joseph’s, Florida, Chapman. 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
13. CRACCA FLORIDANA N. sp. 
Perennial from a short, somewhat creeping ligneous root. 
Stems prostrate, 2-6 dm. or more long, dichotomously branching, 
spreading, angled above, clothed with a short appressed or spreading 
often somewhat viscid pubescence ; stipules 3-5 mm. long, subulate, 
often persisting ; petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; leaves 4~10 cm. long, ob- 
long or rarely linear-oblong in outline; leaflets 9-13, oblong or 
oblong-obovate obtuse or truncate at the apex apiculate, 1.5—3 
cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, glabrous and yellowish-green above, 
lighter, strigose with whitish hairs and the veins turning reddish 
beneath ; peduncles terminal and axillary, 7 cm._2 dm. long; bracts 
subulate; pedicels 5-8 mm. long; flowers solitary or geminate, 
I-1I.5 cm. long ; legume 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, erect, straight, 
strigillose ; seeds 6-10, oblong, ovoid, grayish or brownish varie- 
gated with black. ; 
Differing from C. chrysophylla in its more numerous, narrower 
leaflets and the pubescence of the lower surface, which is that of 
C. Smallit. \t is very close to the latter, from which it differs 
however, in its truly prostrate and spreading habit, narrower and 
more numerous leaflets. 
Central Florida, G. V. Nash, Nos. 494%, 1198, 1263, 1334, 
1552, 1615. Louisiana, New Orleans, Dr. Ingalls. 
Types in Herb. Columbia College. 
14. CRACCA CINEREA (L.) Morong. 
Galega cinerea L.. Amcen. Acad. 5: 403 (1759). 
Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. 2: 528 (1807). 
Cracca cinerea Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 7: 79 (1 892). 
_ Perennial from a stout, ligneous root and woody base. Stems 
prostrate, diffuse, or ascending, 3-6 dm. or more long, appressed 
cinerous-pubescent, or with somewhat spreading rusty” hairs 
above, becoming glabrate with age, angled and channelled above ; 
Stipules 3-8 mm. long, subulate, acuminate, persisting ; petioles 5 
mm. to 1.5 cm. long; leaves oblong in outline, 4-10 cm. long ; 
leaflets 16-17 oblong, linear-oblong, 2-5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. 
broad, the basal and terminal ones often obovate-oblong, obtuse 
or acutish at the apex, acute at the base, glabrous above, — 
_ 0us-strigose or pubescent beneath, becoming often glabrate wi 
