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28. PsoRALEA PHYSODES Douglas. 
Psoralea physodes Douglas; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 136 (1830). 
Erect, simple, 3-5 dm. high, glabrous or with a few weak, 
mostly black hairs; stipules 4-6 mm. long, lanceolate, reflexed ; 
leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 2%-5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, broadly 
thomboid-ovate, acute, mucronate, glandular; peduncles 3-9 cm. 
long; flowers in capitate racemes ; bracts § mm. long, elliptical ; 
calyx 8-10 mm: long, inflated, lobes triangular, glabrous, the 
Margins ciliate with dark hairs; pod membranaceous, 5 mm. 
long, somewhat compressed (under a lens, with a few scattered 
black hairs), seed greyish. 
British Columbia—Near Victoria, Fletcher (1885). 
Oregon —Wahlamet, Nuttall; Portland, L. F. Henderson, No. 10; 
San Juan Island, Lyall (1858); Tolmie; E. Hall, No. 106 
(1871); Douglas; Brushlands, Howell (1880). 
Washington—Pugallup, Puget Sound, Engelmann (1880); J. M. 
Grant (1880) ; Port Townsend, Th. Meehan (1883). 
California—Near Monterey, Brewer, No. 673; Gavillari Peak, 
Brewer, No. 752; Walnut Creek, Brewer, No. 1032; New 
Almaden, Torrey, No. 111 bis (1865); Samuels; Douglas; 
East of Cascade Mountains, Wilkes, No. 454; near Auburn, 
Lemmon (1883); Oakland Hills, Bolander (1861); Mack 
West’s Creek, Bigelow ( 1853-4); Bridges, No. 75; Monterey, 
Parry ( 1850). 
29. PSORALEA STIPULATA Torr. and Gray. 
Psoralea stipulata Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 688 (1840). 
Type in Herb. Columbia College. 
Ascending, branching from the base, 3-5 dm. high, not glandu- oe 
lar, nearly glabrous; petioles 2-3 cm. long; leaves 3-foliolate ae 
Stipules 1-114 cm, long, foliaceous, lanceolate-ovate or elliptical ; 
leaflets 3-4% cm. long, ovate or elliptical, obtuse, mucronulate, 
reticulate beneath ; peduncles about as long as the leaves ; racemes 
Capitate ; bracts 5—IO mm. long, ovate, cuspidate, somewhat scari- 
us, deciduous; calyx slightly pubescent, the lower lobe the long- 
est. Fruit not seen. 
Ohio—Falls of the Ohio, Rock Island, Wm. Jones (June 8, 1839, 
type); Rock Island, Short (1840-60). : ig 
Indiana—_New Albany, A. Clapp. sag g fi 
a the collections of C. W. Short, preserved in the Herb. Acad. — 
Phila., there are notes to the effect that he never found this plant 
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