364 CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



1. Psoralea physodes Dougl.: Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 136. 1830. 



Type locality: "From the Great Falls of the Columbia to the Rocky Mountains." 

 Collected by Douglas. 



Range: British Columbia to Idaho and north California. 



Specimens examined: San Juan Island, Lyall in 1858; Coupeville, Gardner 89; Seattle, 

 Piper 58; between Olympia and Gate City, HeUer 4049; White Bluff Ferrj\ LaTce d' Hull 

 AuTust, 1892; %vithout locality, Cooper. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



Through an unquestionable error Piper no. 58 was referred to P. pedunculata Mill, in the 

 Torrey Bulletin. a The latter species is not known west of the Rocky Mountains. 



The type locality as above given is verj' likely the result of an error. This species is at 

 present known from east of the Cascade Mountains at but a single station — near Troy, 

 Idaho. 



2. Psoralea lanceolata scabra (Xutt.). 

 Pmralea scabra Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 300. 1838. 

 Psoralea pursUi Vail, Bull. Torr. Club 21 : 94. 1889. 



Type locality: "On the Walla-Wallah."' Collected In' Townsend. 



Range: Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Egbert Springs, Sandlerg & Leiherg 384; Morgans Ferry, Suks- 

 dorf 27b; White Bluffs, Dunn 206; White Bluff Ferry, Lake & IMl 664; Columbia River, 

 latitude 46° to 49°, Lyall in 1860; west Klickitat County, Sulcsdorf 663; Moses Lake, 

 Sandherg & Leiherg, July, 1893; Almota, Piper 1851; Wawawai, Lake cfc Hull 429; Elmer 

 748; Pasco, Henderson, June, 1892; Sentinel Blufl's, Cotton 1364; Craips Ferry, Cotton. 



ZoN.AL distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



This plant as to type specimen differs from P. lanceolata Pursh only in its white villous 

 pods, and all intergrades as to the amount of this pubescence occur. 



GLYCYRRHIZA. 



1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Xutt. Gen. 2: 106. 1818. Wild licorice 



Type locality: "St. Louis, " Missouri. 



Range: Washington to Hudson Bay, Arkansa.s, and New Mexico. 



Specimens examined: Egbert Springs, Sandherg & Leiherg 342; west Klickitat Ccjunty, 

 SuksdorfXSQ'd; Almota, Piper 1582; Wawawai, Piper 1482; Spokane, Kreager 539. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



This species has been reported as a bad weed in Washington, but there is no recent evi- 

 dence to this effect. 



la. Glycyrrhiza lepidota glutinosa (Xutt.) S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 144. 1876. 

 Glycyrrhiza glutinosa Xutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 298. 1838. 



Ty'pe locality: "Banks of Lewis's River" in South Idaho. Collected l)y Xuttall. 

 Range: Washington and Idaho to California. 

 Specimens examined: Columbia River, latitude 46° to 49°, Lyall. 



HOSACKIA. 



Perennials; flowers in umbels. 



Pods linear, glabrous, many-seeded. 



Leaflets 5 to 9, glabrous or nearly so. 



Peduncles usually naked; corolla with yellow standard and 



white wings 1 . //. hicolor. 



Peduncles with a bract at the umbel; corolla with yellow 



- standard and purple wings 2. //. gracilis. 



Leaflets 9 to 15; flowers purple 3. H. crassifolia. 



a Bull. Torr. Club 21 : 114. 1894. 



