Glycyrrhiza. LEGUMINOS.T:. 297 



spicuously mucronate \ the lowest pair rather di^laiit from the base of the 

 petiole; racemes as lons^ as the leaves, at length elon-^ated, few-Howered ; 

 peduncles usually ancipilal; teeth of the calyx lriani,ailar-lanceolate, short ; 

 legume nearly straight or slightly falcate, minutely hispid.— 7-*'<r.sV(, fl. 2. p. 

 489; Ell. sk. 2. p. 245; DC. prodr. 2. p. 250. Galega hispidu a, Mich.v. ! 

 k. 2. p. 68 ; Curtis .' in Bost. jour. nat. hist. 1. p. 121. T. gracilis, Nutt. 

 gen. 2. p. 119; DC. I.e. 



0. hirsute with short spreading hairs; IcaHets large, cuneate-oblong; le- 

 gumes pubescent and whitish.— Galega ambigua, Curtis ! I. c. 



y. erect, very hirsute with rusty spreading hairs, scarcely branched ; leaf- 

 lets 6-8 pairs, linear or linear-lanceolate, reflexed ; the terminal one much the 

 longest, with a strong marginal vein ; peduncle much longer than the leaves. 

 — T. flexuosa. Chapman ! mss. 



<5. erect, nearly glabrous; leallets 2-3 pairs, linear-lanceolote, slightly hir- 

 sute beneath, the terminal one much the longest ; marginal veins very dis- 

 tinct. 



Dry sandy soils, Virginia to Florida! and Alabama! /?. North Carolma, 

 Curtis! y. Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman! i. Alabama, Dr. Gates! 

 May-August.— Stem 1-2 feet long, usually dichotomous. Leaflets 1-li 

 inch long (the ter ninal one in y. & -5. nearly 2 inches). Stipules linear-sub- 

 ulate. Peduncles 3-4-flowered ; 2 of the flowers usually at the summit, and 

 1-2 remote. Flowers about half an inch long, reddish-purple. Calyx i the 

 length of the corolla. Vexillinn nearly orbicular. Upper stamen quite free 

 to the base. Legume 6-12-seeded. Seeds roundish-reniform, dark brown.— 

 T. elegans, Nutt.* seems to be a form of this difficult and polymorphous 

 species. 



5. T. chrysophylla (Pursh): prostrate, dichotomous, pubescent ; leaves 

 nearly sessile ; leaflets 2-3 (rarely 4) pairs, cuneate-obovate, very obtuse, 

 ghbrous above, siluy-hirsute beneath ; peduncles longer than the leaves, usu- 

 ally 3-flowered ; legume minutely hispid. — Pursh., fl. 2. p. 489; Ell. sk. 2. 

 p. '247. T. prostrata, Nutt. gen. 2. p. 120 (excl. syn. Michx.) ; DC. prodr. 

 2. p. 250. 



' Sandy soils, near Savannah, Nuttall, Mr. Forbes ! Milledgeville, Geor- 

 gia, Dr. Hnykin! Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman! May-Aug.— Stems 

 dichotomous, about a foot long ; pubescence spreading or appressed. Leaves 

 2-3 inches long; leaflets 6-10 lines long, coriaceous ; the lowest pair close to 

 the base of thiT petiole. Peduncle a little compressed. Flowers as in the 

 preceding species. Legume 8-10-seeded. — The whole plant has a yellowish 

 hue. T.'chrysophylla may be best distinguished from the preceding species 

 by its nearly sessile leaves and broader and fewer leaflets; but even these 

 characters appear to be not entirely constant; and we have some forms of 

 which we are in doubt to which species they should be referred. 



23. GLYCYRRHIZA. Tourii. ; Linn. ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 247. 



Calyx without bracteoles, tubular, gibbous at the base, 5-cleft, bilabiate ; 

 the 2 upper segments partly united. Vexillum ovate-lanceolate, straight : 

 keel-petals and wings straight, acute, the former united above. Stamens 

 diadelphous. Style filiform. Legume ovate or oblong, compressed, often 



* T^. elegans ("S ml): decumbent; slightly pubescent ; leaves subsessile ; leaflets 

 (15-17) oblong-elliptical, rather acute; peduncles filiform, few-flowered, longer than 

 the leaf; segments of the calyx acuminate. Nutt. in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. lf)5. — 

 Alabama.— Peduncles produciug a few reddish-purple flowers toward their extremity. 

 Legume villous. 



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