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6 Lotus. (Tourn.) L. 
Herbs with aiweemebe odd-pinnate leaves, with or without foliaceous 
stipules. Flowers solitary in the axils or in few flowered axilla 
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes subequal. Corolla yellow gar f 
tinged with rose. Uppermost stamen free, the remaining 9 united around the 
ovary. Pods straight or curved, dehiscent. 
0 Flowers vellow, in unbels; perennials 
2 Plant prostrate with trailing stems; foliage 
6 pubescent; pods curved : ze t.. Douglasii : a 
2, Plant erect; foliage glabrate; pods. straight @ Ie pinnatus’. 4 
Q Flowers white, tinged with rose; annuals 3 Le americanus © 
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le Le Douglasii Greene. A prostrate perennial with numerous trailing 
stems from a stout central rootstock, 30-40 cm, long, pubescent with 
short appressed hairs; leaves 1-5-2 cm. long, the stipules gland-like, 
the rachis villous, the leaflets 5, alternate, shortly stipitate, obovate 
1, mostly acutish at both ends, 8-18 mm, long, both surfaces 
or elliptica 
villous; umbels on slender peduncles which are mostly shorter than the 
ere neem 
leaves, the bractlet resembling a leaflet; calyx 5 mm, long, villous, 
the teeth and tube subequal, the former narrowly awl-shaped ; corolla 
yellow, 8-9 mm. long, the wings longer than the keel; pod canescent, 
strongly recurved, about 1 cme longs, including the attenuate style; seeds 
2-3, broadly reniform, 1.5 mm, wide. (Hosackia decumbens Benth.), 
On cravelly plains in the grassland intrusions; hardly proper to our 
Sandberg 551 is "very near the type of Hosackia decumbens Benth." 
regione 
as studied at Kew, fide Jepsone Kootenai Coe, Leiberg 55; Lake Coeur da! 
Alene, Sandberg 551; Chatcolet, Crozier; Granite Sta, Bplinge 
vare giaber (Nutt.) Swan. Less robust, more decumbent, the herbage pilose 
to nearly glabrouSe (Hosackia clata vare glabra Nutt.) ‘vith the speciese 
ives la ictal 
