326 LEGUMINOSiE. Hosacku. 



v\:ite. —Benth. in. hot. recr. .^nh t. 1257; Hook.! Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 135. 

 Lotus micrantlms, Benth. in Linn, trans. I. c. 



Oregon, Scolder ! Null all ! California, A/e??5:ies. June.— (l) Stem 4-12 

 inches high. Leaflets pale and somewhat glaucous beneath. Peduncles 

 longer tha^n the petioles. Bracts rarely 1-foliolate. Flowers pale rose-color. 

 Legume about ? of an inch long, nearly glabrous, 4-6-seeded. 



19. H. microphylla (Nutt. ! mss.) : " nearly prostrate and much branched, 

 somewhat strigosely pubescent; leaflets 4-5, obovate, or oval-oblong, alter- 

 nate ; peduncles shorter or a Uttle longer than the leaves ; bract usually tn- 

 foliolale. 



" With the preceding, but rare : biennial ; the leaves fewer and much 

 smaller: petioles very short. Peduncles occasionally 2-flowered." Nuttall. 



20. H. nudiflora (Nutt.! mss.): "somewhat pubescent with appressed 

 hairs, diffusely branched from the base ; leaflets 5-7, alternate, oblong- 

 hnear, acute; peduncles with a minute glandular scale in the place of the 

 bract ; legume pubescent, straight, curved at the point, somewhat terete. 



GravelTy hills near Monterey. March.— (ij A minute species. Leaves 

 2-3 lines long. Flowers large in proportion to the size of the plant. Corolla 

 twice as long as the calyx. "Legume half an inch in length." Nuttall. 



21. H. stris-osa (Natt.l mss.): "strigosely pubescent, decumbent, much 

 branched ; leaiiets 6-9, alternate, lanceolate-l'inear, acute ; peduncles naked, 

 or with a bract of 1-3 minute leaflets ; corolla nearly twice as long as the ca- 

 lyx; legume pubescent, nearly straight." 



Dry gravelly hills near Monterey. March.— 711 A small plant like the 

 following. Bracts sometimes wanting on the lowest flowers, 1-3-foliolate on 

 the uppeT ones. Flowers yellow. Legume about an inch long, 7-10-seed- 

 ed." Nuttall. 



22. H. rubella (Nutt. ! mss.) : "strigosely pubescent, much branched : leaf- 

 lets 6-10, alternate, linear, rather obtuse; peduncles 1-3-flowered, naked, or 

 with a bract of a single leaflet ; legume pubescent, nearly straight. 



" With the preceding, to which it is closely allied, but with smaller and red- 

 dish flowers.— Ij: Legume an inch long, 7-10-seeded. Seeds yellowish- 

 brown, truncate at each end." Nuttall. 



23. H. marilima. (Nutt. ! mss.) : " rather succulent, somewhat strigose, 

 prostrate, much branched ; leaflets 4-5, alternate, obovate, obtuse ; peduncles 

 1-3-tlowered, naked or with a trifoliolate bract; legume glabrous, subterete, 



straight. . o -r. i. 



"Clayey soils and on broken declivuies near the sea, ht. Barbara. 

 March.—®? Flowers numerous, yellow and rather conspicuous, the early 

 ones solitary and without a bract.— In this and the 2 preceding species the 

 petioles are unusually broad, so as to appear somewhat winged." Nuttall. 



24. H. subpinnata : canescently villous, branched from the base; leaflets 

 about 5, obovate, obtuse ; flowers solitary, nearly sessile ; bracts none ; teeth 

 of the calyx subulate, as long as the tube ; legume pubescent.— Lotus subpin- 

 natu% Lagas. gen. ^ sp. 23 ; Hook. * Am. hot. Beechey, p. 17, t. 8 ; Benth. 

 in Linn, trans. I. c. Anthyllis Chilensis, DC. prodr. 2. p. 171. 



California, Douglas! Nuttall .'—(i) Stem 3-6 inches high, apparently 

 procumbent. Leaflets one-third of an inch long. Stipules extremely minute, 

 deciduous. Legume about S lines long, nearly obtuse, tipped with the very 

 short recurved base of the .style. — This species occurs likewise in Chili. 



25. H. Wrangeliana : diffuse, sparsely hirsute; leaflets 4, oblong, some- 

 what a-laucou5 ; peduncles axillary, very short, 1-flowered ;bracts none ;legume 

 pubescent. Fisch. ^ Meyer. Lotus Wrangelianus, Fisch. ^ Meye.; ind. 

 sen. St. Petenh. 1S25. L. Macrsei, Benth. I. c. ? 



