Genus 31. 



PEA FAMILY. 



391 



7. Oxytropis Belli ( Britton) Palibine. Bell's 

 Uxytrope. Fig. 2568. 



M. Macoun, Can. Rec. Sci. 



Spiesia Belli Britton ; J, 



1894: 148. 1894. 

 AragalUis Belli Greene, Pittonia 3: 212. 1897. 

 O. Belli Palibine, Bull. Soc. Bot. Geneve 2: ig, 



1910. 



Acaulescent, tufted, loosely villous with white 

 hairs. Stipules membranous, ovate or oblong, acute 

 or acuminate, imbricated, villous or glabrate, s"-y" 

 long; leaves 3'-6' long; leaflets oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, subacute at the ape.x, rounded at the base, 

 3"-4" long, I "-2" wide, in verticils of 3 or 4; pedun- 

 cles about equalling the leaves ; inflorescence capi- 

 tate ; pod oblong, erect-spreading, densely pubescent 

 with black hairs or some longer whitish ones inter- 

 mixed, about 9" long and 3" thick, 2-3 times as long 

 as the black-pnbescent calyx, very nearly or quite 

 2-cened by the intrusion of the ventral suture, the tip 

 erect; corolla not seen. 



Hudson Bay. Summer. 



32. GLYCYRRHIZA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 741. 1753. 



Perennial herbs, with thick sweet roots, odd-pinnate leaves, and blue or white flowers in 

 axillary spikes or heads. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, the two upper sometimes partly united. 

 Standard narrowly ovate or oblong, short-clawed; wings oblong, acutish; keel acute or obtuse, 

 shorter than the wings. Stamens mainly diadelphous ; anthers alternately smaller and longer. 

 Pod sessile, covered with prickles or glands, nearly indehiscent, continuous between the seeds. 

 [Greek, sweet-root.] 



About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone, southern South .\merica and Australia. 

 Besides the following, another occurs in California. Type species : Glyeyrrhiza eehinaia L. 



I. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursli. Wild or 

 American Licorice. Fig. 2569. 



Li'ijHij'iVi'a /f/xdoM Nutt. in Fraser's Cat. Hyponym. 1813. 



Glycyrrlii.~a lepidota Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 480. 1814. 



Erect, branching, i-3' high, the foliage with 

 minute scales or glands. Stipules lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 2"-3" long, deciduous ; leaves pe- 

 tioled ; leaflets 11-19, lanceolate, or oblong, acute or 

 obtuse and mucronate at the apex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, entire, very short-stalked, io"-i8" 

 long, 3"-6" wide; peduncles much shorter than the 

 leaves; spikes dense, inany-flowered, i'-2' long, about 

 9" thick; flowers yellowish-white, 6" long; calyx- 

 teeth slender, longer than the tube; pod about 6" 

 long, few-seeded, oblong, densely covered with 

 hooked prickles. 



Hudson Bay to Minnesota. Saskatchewan. Washington, 

 lowai, Missouri, Chihuahua and Arizona. Locally in 

 waste grounds farther east. May-Aug. Licorice-root. 



33. CORONILLA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 742. i7S?,- 

 Herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and purple purplish or yellow flowers, in axillary pedun- 



cled heads or umbels. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, the 2 upper more or less united. Petals 



clawed; standard nearly orbicular; wings oblong or obliquely obovate ; keel incurved, beaked. 



Stamens diadelphous (g and i) ; anthers all alike. Pod terete, angled or compressed, curved 



or straight, jointed. [Diminutive of corona, crown.] 



About 25 species, natives of Europe. Asia and northern Africa. Type species : Coronilla 



Valentino L. 



