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40. A. Bre-weri, sp. nov., Gray in Proceed. Acad. Calif, ined. 

 Subspithamteus ; foliolis 4-5-jugis oblongo-obcordatis ; capitulo 5-7- 

 floro compactiore ; legumine immaturo globoso-ovato cano-sericeo in 

 calyce hand stipitato erecto 6-ovuIato uniloculari, sutura dorsali leviter 

 intrusa ; cajt. prtecedentis. — California, " in the Sonoma valley, com- 

 mon in fields : April 18." Dr. W. H. Bi-ewer, California Geological 

 Survey. — Closely resembling the foregoing in its whole appearance ; 

 but perhaps more branched from the annual root, and with broader 

 leaflets. Calyx and corolla similar ; the latter tinged with violet- 

 purple, and the summit of the keel deep violet But even the ovary 

 is sessile and ovate, and the half-grown legumes (which are very 

 white-hairy and only twice the length of the calyx) are erect, and 

 in a close head. 



♦ # * Austro-Orientales ; racemis spiciformibus sfepissime brevibus ; 

 calyce nunquam nigro-piloso. Legumina glaberrima, reticulata, 

 haud vixve stipitata, oblonga, pi. m. incurva. 



-!— E radice annua multicaulis, diffusus. 



41. A. LiXDHEiJiERi, Engelm. in Gray, PL Wright. 1, p. 52. Gla- 



bellus ; foliolis 6-8-jugis angusto-oblongis plerumque emarginatis ; 



racemo subcapitato ; calycis dentibus subulato-setaceis tubo subduplo 



longioribus ; corolla violacea ; carina majuscula alls et vexillo amplo 



vix emarginato paullo breviore ; leguminibus in pedicello patente adsur- 



gentibus oblongo-linearibus subfalcatis compressis transversim venuloso- 



reticulatis dorso bicarinatis sutura intrusa seraibilocellatis, sutura ven- 



trali costiformi acuta. — Texas. — Corolla half an inch long, showy. 



Legume an inch or more in length, substipitate, the ovary manifestly 



short-stipitate. 



-i— -1— E radice perenni. 



42. A. DiSTORTUS, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1, p. 332. Multicaulis, humilis, 

 diffusus, subglaber ; foliolis 8-12-jugis oblongis emai-ginatis ; floribus 

 breviter spicatis ; calycis dentibus lato-subulatis tubo (nigrescenti- 

 puberulo) dimidio brevioribus ; corolla pallide purpurea, vexillo alte 

 emarginato ; leguminibus ovato- seu lanceolato-oblongis arcuatis crasso- 

 coriaceis minutim reticulatis subteretibus ad suturas prtesertim dorsali 

 sulcatis unilocularibus. — Texas, Arkansas, and S. lUinois (Dr. Mead). 

 — Corolla narrow and small, scarcely over four lines long. Legumes 

 variable in thickness, delicately reticulated when mature, 6 to 9 lines 

 long, obscurely obcompressed; the ventral suture a little, but the dorsal 

 more conspicuously introflexed. 



