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cronulate, glandular, glabrous or with a few a ve ee 
peduncles varying in length, rarely longer than - tite heads; 
scattered in slender spikes or crowded in nearly Nae nad 
bracts minute; calyx-lobes about equal, sparing rd Se is ne: 
globose, over 5 mm. long, with a short erect beak, lig whe silky 
tered brown glands, and more or less densely villous wi 
white hairs; seed globose, 5 mm. long, light ee a 
Washington—On a sand hill near the Columbia River, ee orl, 
No. 963 (1890); near Columbus, Suksdorf, No. 851 cepa 
Nevada—Grass Valley, Watson, No. 250 (1868) ; Empire City, 
E. Jones, No. 3825. 
Idaho—Nez Percé Co., Sandberg. 1 
The specimens here cited have passed as P. malas ee : 
aS several that are put under P. micrantha. The type st mee 
ceolata is an intermediate form from the plains of wigs Pr shth 
there is no fruit description. The broad leaved form, a pin | 
has a conspicously villous pod, and it will be eae 
Whether that character remains constant in Pubs € . hee 
The extremes are so marked that it is deemed mnie “s PI 
them Separate, though it will be difficult to distinguish the 
Out the fruit, . ; 
4. PsoRALEA LuPINELLUS Michx. : : 
i € 
Psoralea Lupinellus Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. 2: 58 (1803). Typ 
in Herb. Michx., fide Torrey and Gray. ae 9 
Psoralea Floridana Shuttleworth in Distrib. Pl. Rugel (1843), 
name only. 
; t 
Erect, 3-6 dm. high, slender, branching, glabrous, somewha 
glandular ; stipules 2-5 mm. long, setaceous; petioles mostly 
: ; 2 . long, 
shorter than the leaflets; leaves 5—7-foliolate ; Ngee: ee ae 
liform-linear, with a few scattered glands, the low 
tclnting® eee 
strowly oblong-cuneate; peduncles longer than ae grr, 
racemes slender; flowers few, scattered ; ee one a nearly 
cuspidate ; calyx sparingly pubescent, the lo . ate, oblinuelyy 
equal; pod 1 cm. long, glandular, somewhat lunate, obli 2 
twisted, oe 
void, brown. pre ae 
» Dp : a tay 
North Carolina—« Fields of Carolina, Pursh ;_ Cumber =] oe 6 
Curtiss (1845). | eee 
Ge orgia— Baldwin ; Boykin; Dr. Grant; me cand lalate 
os Savannah, Mrs. Say. ee ee 
: ak; seed 2. 
transversely wrinkled, with a short curved be Sewn 
