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1-2 mm. long; bracteoles setaceous, 1-2 mm. long; calyx turn- 
ing brown, 5-6 mm. long, hirsute, scarious-margined, the lower 
teeth slender, acuminate, the upper one broader, minutely 2— 
toothed; vexillum round-ovate, retuse; legume linear-oblong, 
about 2 cm. long, hirsute; seeds about 6, June-August. 
Original locality, “ Carolinas.” 
Dry pine barrens, North Carolina to Florida, Alabama and 
Louisiana. 
Synonymy: Evvum erectum Walt. Fl. Car. 187. 1788. 
Glycine stricta Hook. & Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 22, 
1835. 
Galactia sessiliflora Torr. & Gray, Fl.N. Am. 1: 288; 687. 1838. 
3. Galactia Grayi. 
Decumbent, canescent-sericeous throughout ; stems slender, 
several from a large, thick, ligneous root, retrorsely strigose, 3-6 
dm. or more long, simple or branched; stipules minute, subulate ; 
petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, canescent-strigose; leaflets 7-16 mm. 
long, oblong, sub-cuneate or nearly linear, obtuse, retuse, mucron- 
ulate or acutish, emarginate, when 5-foliolate, the terminal leaflet 
short petioluled; the accessory ones affixed to the lateral pair; . 
Sessile or nearly so; racemes 1—4-flowered; peduncles 1-2.5 cm. 
long; bracteoles minute ; pedicels 5-7 mm. long; flowers 1.5-1.8 
cm. long; calyx 8-10 mm. long, the teeth slender, acuminate, the 
slightly broader, upper one minutely 2-toothed ; vexillum yellowish, 
oblong-ovate, retuse, acute at the base, the other petals rose-purple, 
the keel conspicuously longer than the narrow wings; anthers 
oblong ; legume about 8 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, phe eee 
acute; seeds 3-4 mm. long, oblong, apparently truncate at the 
ends. 
Original locality, on the Llano River, Texas. 
Type, Lindheimer No. 591 in Herb. Columbia College. 
Texas, Llano River; San Diego (Miss Croft) ; Pena and Che- 
nate Mts. (Nealley). , 
Synonymy: Galactia heterophylla A. Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
6: 171. 1850. Not G. heterophylla (Gillies.) ° 
4. Galactia brachypoda Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 288. 
1838. 
Erect, stems slender, branched, at length decumbent, some- 
: led and chan- 
_ what puberulous, or nearly glabrous, slightly ang : A 
Saale A pein 4-6 dm. long; stipules 2-4 mm. long ; leaflets 2 
