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covered with brown glands, strongly gibbous-saccate at the upper 
side, lobes lanceolate, the upper ones the longest. Fruit riot seen. 
Yexas—Lindheimer, Nos. 30, 593 (1847), also No. 44 (1849-50); 
Ch. Wright, No. 114 (1849); Bandera, Reverchon, No. 1512; 
Reverchon, No. 813; South of Fort Belknap, Buckley (1861). 
The last specimen has very broad leaves, over 15 cm. long, 
foliaceous stipules and broad scarious scales at the base of the 
stem. ; 
14. PSORALEA CANESCENS Michx. ; 
Psoralea canescens Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 5 7 (1803). Typein 
Herb. Michx. 
Erect from a long, (rarely I m.) fusiform, somewhat farina- 
ccous root, branching, canescent ; stipules lanceolate, subulate, less 
than 1 cm. long; basal leaves 3-foliolate, upper ones often 1-foliolate, 
sessile or short petioled; leaflets orbicular-obovate narrowed to 
the petiole, 2-5 cm. or more long, minutely glandular, glabrous 
above except the somewhat hairy midvein, appressed canescent 
beneath ; peduncles about twice as long as the leaves; flowers in 
small clusters or scattered in loose spikes ; bracts 4-6 mm. long, : 
ovate, acuminate ; calyx gibbous on the upper side, covered 
rown glands, the lobes triangular, ovate, the two upper ones muc 
shorter than the lower; pod 1 cm. long, glandular, with a straight 
eak that is somewhat longer than the calyx; seed nearly orbicular, 
lattish, brown, 7 
North Carelina—M. A. Curtis (1842). 
South Carolina—Aikin, Ravenel. 
Georgia__Beyrich : Baldwin ; Leconte; Buckley; Neisler. 
Hor tda—Buckley ; Torrey; between Tallahassee and St. Marks, 
Rugel (1843); Rosewood, Garber (1876); Chapman; ‘Bur- 
FOWs ; pine barrens, Mary Reynolds (1876) ; near Braidentown, 
J. H. Simpson (1891); near Jacksonville, Curtiss, N. Am. Pl. 
No. 557. 7 , 
Alabama ch, Mohr (p!ants with abnormally large fruit). 
15. PsSORALEA CUSPIDATA Pursh. oe 
Psoralea cuspidata Pursh, F]. Am. Sept. 741 (1814). Typein _ 
Herb, Acad. Phila. ; eee fe 
oralea macrorhiza Fras. Cat. (1813), name only. — ee 
Soralea cryptocarpa Torr. and Gray, FI. N, Am.1: -30r ( 1838) 
Psevalea Remeriana Scheele, Linnza, ar ‘ 463 (1848) 
