OATALOGIJE. - ^3 
HosACKiA Heermanni, Bur. & Hilg. Graifs Bijn., I p. 348. Peren- 
nial, finely villous-pubescent, diffusely much branched, very leafy; leaflets 
3-5, obovate, .roundish, or oval-oblong, 2-5" long, upon a short petiole; 
umbels numerous, 4-9-flowered, with a simide bract, the peduncle often 
ecpiahng the leaf; teeth of the loosely villous calyx considerably shorter than 
the campamdate tube; flowers 2/' long, yellow turning purj^hsh, the keel 
with a broad and very obtuse summit ; legume pubescent, the body but little 
exceeding the calyx, with a subulate incurved beak, 1-2-seeded. Southern 
Cahfornia, and also collected by Dr. Anderson near Carson City, Nevada. 
HoSACKiA PuESHiANA, Bcuth. Gvai/s Sijn,, p. 352. Annual, erect or 
ascending, much branched, pubescent or softly villous, sonidimes glabrous; 
leaves nearly sessile; leaflets 3, (or 1, rarely 4,) varying from ovate U> huice- 
olate, rather acute; stijjules minute, blackish; peduncles exceeding the 
leaves, 1-flowered ; bract simple; corolla scarcely longer than the deeply cleft 
calyx ; keel attenuated upward, falcate ; vexillum on a short claw approxi- 
mating the others ; legume linear, straight, not attenuate above. — Stem 6'-2° 
high ; branches usually distichous. In North Carolina, and from Arkansas to 
the Upper Missouri and westward, in Oregon, Californiii and Sonora. Found 
on the banks of the Truckee River, Nevada ; July, August. (249.) 
HoSACKIA SUBPINNATA, T. & Gr. Gray's Syn.^ I. p. 352. Annual, pro- 
cumbent, (3-6' high,) branched from the base, villous-hirsute or glabrate ; 
leaflets 3—5, obovate, obtuse, ^ long; lower ones scattered on the dilated rachis; 
stipules minute ; flowers small, yellow, solitary, subsessile,. ebractcate ; calyx- 
teeth about equaling the tube, shorter than the corolla ; keel rostrate, falcate ; 
the short claw of the banner not distant from the others; legume linear-oblong, 
straight, subcompressed, not rostrately attenuate, 4-7-iscc(h'(l, much exceed- 
ing the calyx. California and Oregon. Collected by Stretch in Western 
Nevada. 
PsoEALEA LANCEOLATA, Pursh. Nearly glabrous, M itii a few scat <r red 
hairs and numerous dark-colored glands; erect, 1"^ high, much brauclird : !r;ivrs 
palmately 3-foliolate; leaflets (i-1' long) linear-lanceolate or cunratc-ciboviite, 
acute or obtuse, or the lower retuse, mucronate, shortly pctiohdate; pedun- 
cles longer than the leaves; racemes short, G-15-flowercd; calyx-teeth minute, 
obtuse, hairy ; corolla 3" long, light Idue ; legume globose, hirsute. — From 
the Platte to the Saskatchewan and ^vest to the Rocky Mountains; Oregon, 
(Douglas ;) Northern Arizona, (Ives.) Found at the foot of the Pah-Ute 
