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I. PSORALEA LANCEOLATA Pursh. 
Psoralea lanceolata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 475 (1814). Type in 
Herb. Acad. Phila. : 
Psoralea elliptica Pursh, Fl. Am. SFr 7 at (1S ee 
Herb Acad. Phila. 
Psoralva areraria Nutt. Gen. 2: 103 (1818). : 
Psoralea laxiflora Nutt.; Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 299 
(1838). 
Psoralea scabra Nutt.; Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 300 
(1838). . 
Erect or assurgent, 15-40 cm. or more high, aromatic seater 
lar throughout; stems glabrous or with a minute pubescence : 
often a few scattered scarious scales at the base ; ie ae ; 
mm. long, linear-lanceolate or setaceous; petioles 1-2 cm. ~~ 
leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 1 Y%—4 cm. long, linear-lanceolate sy h 
asal ones obovate, acute or obtuse, mucronate, -hastiaear a : 
few hairs; peduncles longer than the leaves, (214-5 cm.) . ae ; 
cence capitate, small; bracts minute; flowers near y ena A 
Calyx minutely hairy ; lobes nearly equal, obtuse ; pole cae 
mm. long, light with conspicuous large raised brown g : 
nearly glabrous; beak small and erect; seed globose, brown. 
In O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 193, P. ellipiicum under Lotodes is 
claimed to be on Pp. 471, of Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., and ses 
Preceding the description of P. danceolata, whereas in reality ve 
description of Bradbury’s plant under that name occurs in the 
Supplement on Pp. 741. 
Saskatchewan—Macoun, No. 110 (1879). 
North Wese 7 érr.—Nicollet; River that Turns, Macoun (187 9). 
Montana—_l,. F. Ward (1883); Coues; Yellowstone Park, Chas. 
H. Hall (1888); above Glendive, L. F. Ward. 
‘daho—Camass Creek, W. H. Forwood, No. 41 (1880). : . 
Oregon—Kelloge and Harford, No. 167 (1868-9); E. Hall, No. | 
*05 (1871); Lyall (1860); Geyer, No. 653. ; 
Dakota_Stevens. Pac. R. R. Exp. ; a 
Nebraska Valentine, J. M. Bates, No. 10; Keith ; as re is 
Swezey; Fort Kearney, Fendler (1849); Fort P pala ae ee 
(18534), 7 | one ee 
fowa—Sioux City, A. s. Hitchcock (1888). 
