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22. PSORALEA VIRGATA Nutt. 
Psoralea virgata Nutt. Gen. 2: 104 (1818). Type in Herb. 
Columbia College. 
Psoralea simplicifolia Baldw.; Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 303 
(1838.) Type in Herb. Acad. Phila. 
Root small, tuberous; stem erect, 2-6 dm. high, angled, sim- 
ple or branching from the base, nearly glabrous or the upper part 
pubescent; stipules setaceous, 5-8 mm. long; leaves remote, I- 
foliolate or the radical ones 3-foliolate ; petioles shorter than the leaf 
lets ; leaflets 3-10 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, linear, the basal ones 
rarely ovate or ovate-lanceolate, glandular, sparingly pubescent on 
the veins and margins ; flowers crowded in short spikes 2—3 is 
long; bracts subulate, nearly twice as long as the calyx-lobes; 
calyx very small, hirsute, the lower lobe the longest; pod 5 mm. 
long, obliquely orbicular, compressed, transversely wrinkled, with a 
minute recurved beak; seed flattish, brown. 
Georgia—Near St. Mary’s, Baldwin (type). 
Florida—Between St. John’s and St. Augustine, Rugel, No. 164 e 
(1848). Chapman, no locality ; near Jacksonville, Curtiss, No. 
553; C. T. Powell (1872); St. Augustine, Mary Reynolds. . 
Also specimens in Herb. Acad. Phila. from Herb. Baldwin, 
labelled “ Psoralea angustifolia U.S. 228. Leaves rarely ternate. 
23. PSORALEA SIMPLEX Nutt. 
Psoralea simplex Nutt.; Torr. and Gray Fl. N. Am. 1: 303 
(1803). Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
Erect, simple or one or two stems from the same root, 3-6 dm. 
high, more or less pubescent throughout; stipules 1 cm. io oe 
setaceous ; leaves 3-foliolate, sessile or very short-petioled; lea = 
lets 2-6 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, lanceolate, acute, mucromate, — 
glandular; peduncles 2-3 times the length of the leaves; flowe!S — 
in oblong spikes; bracts very small, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, : 
hirsute with white hairs ; calyx hirsute, the lobes somewhat obtuse — 
the lower one the longest; pod 4-5 mm. long, obliquely orbicular, : 
transversely reticulate; beak somewhat oblique; seed flat, veg 
small, brownish. e 
Arkansas—Cedar Prairies, Red River, Nuttall (type); Dr. EA: 
wards (1854); Engelmann (1835). : 
Louisiana—Pointe A la Mache, Langlois (1886); Hale; Parois 
des Rapides, Steinhauer (1839). | 
“ South Mississippi” —E. H. Gard. (1859). 
