18 LEGUMINOS^. 



5. L. inicranthns, Beuth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 367 (1837). Ilosackia 

 parvifora, Benth. Bot. Reg, i;nder t. 1257 (1829) ; H. microphylla, Nutt. 

 in T.' & a Fl. i. 326 (1838). Erect, slender, 4—10 in. high, glabrous, 

 glaucous : x^eduncle filiform, bracted, 1-flowered : fi. minute, i)ale salmon, 

 turning red : pod 1 in. long or less, compressed, constricted between the 

 seeds ; these oval or roundish, little compressed, smooth, — Prom Monte- 

 rey northward. Apr, May, 



6. L. salsuginosus, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 140 (1890), Hosackia mari- 

 lima, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 326 (1838). Ascending or depressed, slightly 

 strigose, somewhat succulent, the branches 8 — 18 in. long : leaflets 4 — 6, 

 obovate, obtuse \ peduncles 1 in. long, 1 — 4-flowered, naked or with a 

 conspicuous 1 — 3-foliolate bract : corolla yellow, 3 lines long, the banner 

 and wings equalling the straight keel : pod scarcely compressed, 10 — 12- 

 seeded : seeds obliquely oval, smooth, — From Monterey southward, either 

 toward the sea, or on subsaline flats of the interior. Mar. — June. 



7. L. rubellus, Greene, 1. c. 141 ; Nutt. in T. & G. Fl, i. 326 (1838). 

 under Hosackia. Prostrate, slender, not succulent, strigose-pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous : leaflets 6 ~ 10, linear-oblong, mostly acutish : early 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, bractless, 1-flowered, the later longer, 

 bracted, 2-flowered : corolla reddish, scarcely twice as long as the calyx : 

 pod slender, straight, 7 — 10-seeded : seeds quadrate, minutely granu- 

 late. — Plentiful in sandy soils, San Francisco, Alameda and far south- 

 ward, but apparently only along the seaboard. Apr, —July. 



8. L. nudiftorus, Greene, 1. c, ; Nutt, 1. c, under Hosackia. Near the 

 last, but leaflets smaller and broader : fl. thrice as large : pod broader, more 

 flattened, slightly curved upward at apex : seeds larger, quadrate, faintly 

 tuberculate. — Eastern base of Mt. Diablo Range, near Byron, etc., on 

 gravelly hill-tops ; thence sottthward throughout the State. Mar, — May. 



9. L. strig'osus, Greene, 1. c. Nutt, 1. c, under Hosackia. Strigose- 

 pubescent, decvimbent or prostrate : peduncles long, commonly 1 — 2- 

 flowered and 3-foliolate-bracted : fl. 4 — 5 lines long, yellow : pod pubes- 

 cent, slightly curved upwards : seeds quadrate, but somewhat cruciform, 

 being deeply notched at each end and at the hilum, the surface closely 

 sinuate-rugose. — Same range as the last, and readily distinguished by its 

 seeds which have something of the outline of a Maltese cross. But this 

 and the two preceding excellent species, were confused in the " Botany of 

 California," as elsewhere by the same eastern authors, under the name 

 of Hosackia strigosa. Mar, — June. 



10. L. llirtellns, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 142 ( 1890 ). Stoutish, depressed, 

 canescently hirsutulous, not at all strigose : leaflets 5—7, cuneate-oblong 

 or -obovate, obtuse : peduncles stoutish, bracted, surpassing, the leavesr 

 2-flowered: pod 1 in. long, subterete. straight, 7 — 10-seeded; seeds 



