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in fruit growing wild, and that he cultivated it vainly for years. 
His collections of P. stipulata in the herbaria examined, cover a 
period of some twenty years. 
30. PSORALEA STROBILINA Hook. and Arn. 
Psoralea strobilina Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beechey 332 (1840). 
Psoralea macrostachya 8 Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 304 
(1838) not of D.C, 
Stems 6-9 dm. high, striate, tomentose and glandular through- 
out; stipules over 1 cm. long, ovate, cuspidate, ciliate, somewhat 
scarious; petioles 3-6 cm. or more long; leaves 3-foliolate; leaf- 
lets 3-7 cm. long, ovate or oval, the terminal one somewhat rhom- 
boid, acutish, sometimes obtuse, rarely mucronulate, pubescent 
above with black glands, tomentose beneath : peduncles exceeding 
the leaves; spikes 2-5 cm. long, oblong, densely hirsute ; bracts 
over 1/4 cm. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, hirsute, mostly en- 
closing the flower; calyx-lobes lanceolate, cuspidate, the lower 
lobes broader and longer than the attenuate upper ones; fruit not 
seen. 2 
California—Douglas (type) ; Roadsides to Santa Cruz, Bolander ; 
Oakland Hills, near San Francisco, Torrey, No. 113 bis. 
31. PSORALEA PEDUNCULATA (Mill.). ; 
Hedysarum pedunculatum Mill. Gardn. Dict. No. 17 (1768), not 7 
Psoralea pedunculata Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 228 (1817), which is P. ser 
cea Poir. (1804.) Type in Herb. Mus. Br. | 
Infolium psoralicides Walt. F\. Car. 184 (1788). Type app 
rently lost. ee 
Psoralea melilotoides Michx. F\. Bor. Am. 2: 58 (1803). Type 
in Herb. Michx. Ae Sac, ae 
Psoralea Melilotus Pers. Syn. 2: 347 (1807). 
Melilotus psoralioides Nutt. Gen. 2: 104 (1818). oN 
Psoralea eglandulosa Ell. Bot. N. C. and Ga. 2:198 (1824). 
Psoralea gracilis Chapm.; Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 303 
(1838). Type in Herb. Columbia College. an 
: Erect, 3-8 dm. high, from a long rootstock, simple or igi 
ing from the base; stipules 4-5 mm. long, setaceous; petioit? 
shorter than the leaflets: leaves remote,3-foliolate, rarely 
foliolate ; leaflets 4-7 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, lanceolate, acu! 
rarely ovate and obtuse, glabrous except the veins and marg 
which are very sparingly hirsute ; peduncles much exceeding 
