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Florida—N uttall; Buckley; between Tallahassee and St. Mark’s, 
Rugel (1843); South Florida, Rugel, No. 163 (1845); Chap- 
man, No. 44 in Herb. Torrey; Tampa, Garber, No. 34; Cur- 
tiss (1875); near Jacksonville, Curtiss, N. Am. Pl., No. 558; 
East Florida, Mary Reynolds. 
5- PSORALEA BRACTEATA L. 
Psoralea bracteata L.. Mant. 264 (1771), fide M. K. Curran, 
Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 135 (1885). ; 
Psoralea fruticosa Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 7: Qt (1876). 
A low spreading sub-shrub, more or less canescent-pubescent 
throughout; stipules nearly 1 cm. long, lanceolate-subulate ; leaves 
3-foliolate, sessile or very short-pedicelled (becoming elongated 
when old), crowded; leaflets I-2¥% cm. long, oblong-obovate, 
cuneate, mucronate with a recurved rigid spine, very glandular; 
spikes sessile at the ends of the branches, the lower flowers in the 
axils of the leaves; bracts lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, nearly as 
long as the flowers ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, glandular, the lower 
lobe the longest; “pod glabrous, ovate-oblong, acute, wrinkled 
and roughened.” 
California—Streams of Mt. Tamalpais, F. P. McLein (1873). AP 
parently not since collected. I have not seen mature fruit of - 
this species. 
6. PSORALEA TENUIFLORA Pursh. 
Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 475 (1814). Type in 
Herb. Acad. Phila. 
Erect, 2-6 dm. or more high, often from a long subterranean 
root, stems branching, glabrous or minutely canescent, especially — 
above, glands black, scattered; petioles mostly shorter than the 
leaflets ; leaves 3-foliolate, the basal ones rarely 4-5 foliolate; SU 
pules minute, setaceous; leaflets 5 mm.—4 cm. long, 3-8 ee : 
wide, oblong elliptical, obtuse or mucronulate, glandular on bot : 
surfaces, glabrous above, sparingly canescent beneath; peduncles — 
2-8 cm. long; bracts minute, ovate, acuminate; flowers 3 oy 
gether, scattered on slender racemes, calyx very small, with oo 
few hairs, closely covered with dark reddish or brown glands, ths i 
lobes acute ; pod 8 mm. long, ovoid, glabrous, covered with re 
dish or brown glands; beak short, stout, somewhat recurved; S€°° 
5 mm. long, ovoid, brown. ae 
Differing from P. floribunda in its more slender habit, smalle 
leaves, smaller, fewer and more scattered flowers and genet 
