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33. A. Webberi, Gray, in B. & W. Bot. Calif, i. 154 (1876). Low, very 

 leafy, silvery-canescent : leaflets 11 — 21, oblong or obovate, 4 — 7 lines 

 long : peduncles exceeding the leaves ; spike densely 9 20-fiowered : 

 calyx-teeth subulate, half as long as the oblong-camijanulate tube : 

 corolla white or yellowish, }.2 in. long : pod glabrous, cartilaginous, 1 in. 

 long, oblong, obtuse, arcuate or nearly straight, somewhat comijressed, 

 sessile in the calyx, 1-celled. — Plumas Co., Mrs. Ames, Mr. Letnmon. 



34. A. Leininoui, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 626 (1873). Minutely 

 appressed-pubescent ; stems slender, diffuse, 1 ft. long or more : leaflets 

 9-11, linear-oblong, mucronate, 4 — 5 lines long : peduncles filiform, 1—2 

 in. long, having dense racemes of very small pale-purphsh flowers : calyx- 

 teeth subulate-setaceous, as long as the short-campanulate tube : pod 

 chartaceous, 2 lines long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, turgid, imperfectly 2-celled, 

 the cross section obcordate.- Plumas Co. and northward, Bolander, Lem- 

 mon, Greene. 



35. A. Clevelandi, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 121 (1882). Nearly 

 glabrous, slender, erect, 2 3 ft. high : leaflets 15 — 19, less than % ^■ 

 long ; peduncles exceeding the leaves, the loose spicate raceme of small 

 white flowers often 6 in. long : pod very small. — This plant, much 

 resembling MelUoias aiha, was first obtained by Mr. Cleveland in Indian 

 Valley, Lake Co., afterwards by the author, on the northern slope of Mt. 

 8t. Helena, where it is common along streams in open places. June, July. 



36. A. Austinse, Gray, in B. & W. Bot. CaHf. i. 156 (1876). Low, 

 densely tufted, silvery-silky : stipules scarious, mostly united into an 

 ovate body opposite the leaf : leaflets 9 — 17, oblong or oval-lanceolate, 

 acute or mucronate, 4 — 5 lines long : peduncle equalling or exceeding 

 the leaf : fl. capitate : calyx-teeth filifonn, longer than the campanulate 

 tube, and nearly as long as the pale corolla, of which the banner and 

 wings are pubescent externally : pod chartaceous, turgid-oval, hoary- 

 pubescent, 2 lines long and scarcely exceeding the calyx-teeth, imperfectly 

 2-celled. — High peaks of Nevada Co., Letnmon. 



5. GLYCYRRHIZA, Dioscorides (Licorice). Glandular-viscid per- 

 ennials with unequally pinnate leaves, and flowers in axillary peduncled 

 spikes ; calyx 5-cleft. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous ; the 

 alternate anthers smaller. Pod short, compressed, prickly, indehiscent, 

 few-seeded. 



1. G, glutinosa, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 298 (1838) ; G. lepidota, var. 

 gluHnosa, Wats. Two or three ft. high, erect or decumbent, either nearly 

 glabrous and viscid with minute sessile resinous dots, or more decidedly 

 glutinous by a villous or hirsute glandular pubescence, never scurfy : 

 leaflets 13 to 19, oblong-lanceolate, 1 or 2 in. long ; stipules ovate- 



