296 LEGUMINOSJS. Tephrosia. 



mucronate, silky-villous beneath, minutely silky-pubescent above ; raceme 

 oblong, sessile; calyx very villous, the segments acuminate-cuff idate, about 

 the length of the tube.— Pers. syn. 2. p. 329 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 245 ; Nutt. ! 

 gen. 2. p. 119; DC. 1. c. ; Hook. f. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 139. Galega Virginia 

 ana, Linn.; Mlch.x.! fl. 2. p. 67. 



0. glabra (Nutt. mss.): •'leaflets nearly glabrous when old." 

 y.holosericea: stem and raceme densely villous; leaflets very silky-pubes- 

 cent on both sides, often sublanceolate and rather acute.— T. holosericea, 

 Nutt. in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 105. 



Dry sandy soil, Canada! to Florida! and the western part of Louisiana! 

 ^.Georgia, Nuttall. j'. Arkansas, Nuttall, Dr. Pitcher! Illinois, Mr. 

 Buckley! June-July. Stems simple, 1-2 feet high, growing in patches, 

 clothed with a whitish villous pubescence. Flowers large. Corolla dull yel- 

 low tinged with purple: keel-petals very broad. Legumes 2 inches long, 

 somewhat falcate, villous. — Mr. Nuttall remarks that the wings are calcaiate 

 at the base as in Indigofera ; but we do not observe this.— Our Arkansan 

 specimen of Avhat is doubtless T. holosericea, Nutt. has a somewhat diiferent 

 aspect, and the leaflets are mostly inclining to lanceolate; but the specimen 

 from Illinois manifestly connects it with the ordinary form of T. Virginiana. 



§ 2. Peduncles (few) terminal or opposite to the leaves. 



2. T. onohryclioides (Nutt.): pilose with someAvhat rusty hairs; stem 

 mostly erect and simple; leaves subsessile ; leaflets 8-12 pairs, cuneate-ob- 

 long, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, silky-hirsute beneath with brownish 

 hairs, at length smoothish above ; raceme very long, many-flowered (com- 

 monly only terminal) ; teeth of the calyx triangular, shorter than the tube, 

 the lowest subulate and longer than the others ; legumes puberulent. — Nidt! 

 in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 104. 



Plains uf Arkansas, Nuttall! Dr. Pitcher! Red River, Louisiana, Dr. 

 Hale !—Qtem 2-3 feet high, stout. Leaflets often U inch or more in length, 

 and half an inch Avide. Stipules subulate, caducous. Raceme 1-2 leet 

 long, bearing flowers for the greater part of its length: pedicels 2-4 together 

 on alternate nodes, very short. Calyx villous-hispid. Corolla red mixed 

 with white. — Very nearly allied to the succeeding species. The pubescence 

 is sometimes rusty-colored, and sometimes whitish. 



3. T.spicata: pilose-hispid with rusty hairs ; stem decumbent ornearly 

 erect, scarcely branched ; leaves subsessile ; leaflet* 4-7 pairs, oval or oblong^ 

 often slightly cuneale at the base, obtuse or slightly tmarginate, mucronate, 

 silky-villous beneath, minutely silky-pubescent above ; peduncles long, few- 

 flowered ; segments of the calyx lanceolate-subulate, longer than the tube ; 

 legumes minutely hispid.— T. paucifolia, Nutt. ! gen. 2. p. 119 ; Ell. sk. 2. 

 p. 246; DC. I. c. T. hispida, DC. I.e.? Galega spicata, Walt. Car. p. 

 188. G. villosa, Michx.! f. 2. p. 67. G. paucilolia, Curtis, in Bost.jour. 

 nat. Jiist. 1. p. 121. 



Dry soils, Virginia! to Florida! west to the Mississippi! June-Aug. — 

 Stem about 2 feet long, rather slender. Leaves often few and remote, 4-5 

 or often more, on each stem : leaflets an inch long. Stipules lanceolate, rather 

 persistent. Peduncles 8-12 or 18 inches long. 3-6- (rarely 8 or 10-) flower- 

 ed: pedicels sohtary or in pairs, shorter than the flowers. Calyx hispid; the 

 lower segment a little longest. Corolla purplish-red. Legume 2 inches 

 long, slightly falcate. — A very common plant in the Southern States ; and 

 doubtless the Galega spicata of Walter. 



4. T. hispidula (Pursh) : stem erect or procumbent, slender, dichotomous, 

 slightly pubescent; leaflets 5-9 pairs, elliptical-oblong or linear-oblong, gla^ 

 brous above, hirsute beneath, usually more or less acute, often retuse, con-- 



