20 LEGUMINOS^. 



15. L. pinuatus, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2913 (1829). IlosacJcia hicolor, 

 Dongl. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1257 (1829j. Stoutish, glabrous, the erect stems 2 

 ft. high : leaflets 5-9, obovate or oblong, acutish : stipules scarious, 

 triangular : ijeduncles longer than the leaves, 3 — 7-flowered, naked or 

 with a small scarious 1 — 3-foliolate bract : calyx-teeth triangular, half as 

 long as the tube : corolla as in the last, but keel and wings white, banner 

 yellow. — Said to inhabit the seaboard districts from San Francisco north- 

 ward ; but not known to me as Oalifornian. 



16. L. Torreyi, Greene, 1. c. 146 (1890) ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 625 (1873), under Hosackia. Habit of the last, but slender, more or less 

 silky -pubescent ; leaflets narrower, acute or obtuse : bract of the umbel 

 sessile : fl. smaller, the keel and wings white, the latter not spread- 

 ing. — Very common along streamlets and brooks in the middle or higher 

 Sierra and the Coast Range. June —Aug. 



17. L. obloug'ifolius, Greene, 1. c. ; Benth. PI. Hartw. 305 (1849 1, under 

 Hosackia. Erect, slender, somewhat appressed-pilose : leaflets 7 — 11, 

 narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 1 in. long, acute : stipules small, acute : 

 peduncles exceeding the leaves, 5 —7-flowered ; bract subsessile 1 — 3- 

 foliolate : calyx-teeth subulate, about equalling the tube : corolla yellow, 

 turning i^urplish or brownish : pod slender, 2 in. long : seeds turgid. — 

 From Monterey, Coulter, soiithward in the mountains. 



18. L. lathyroides, Greene, 1. c. ; Dur. k Hilg. Pac. R Rep. v. 6. t. 3 

 (1853), under Hosackia. Slender, branching and flexuous, minutely 

 pubescent : leaflets 5 — 7, linear-lanceolate, acute at both ends : stipules 

 small, scarious, ovate-acuminate ; umbels 1 — 3-flowered, with or without 

 a linear-lanceolate bract : fl. 5 lines long : calyx-teeth linear, acute. — At 

 Fort Miller on the San Joaquin, Heermann, and southward. All the 

 specimens seen by me indicate an annual root. Biit the original figure 

 and description make it perennial. 



19. L. erassifoliiis, Greene, 1. c. 147 ; Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 365 (1837), under Hosackia ; H. siolonifera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1977 ; H. 

 plalycarpa, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 323 (1838). Erect, stout, 2—3 ft. high, 

 of a dull green hue, as if glaucous, but minutely piibescent : leaflets 

 9 — 15, thickish, obovate or oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, ig in. long or 

 more : peduncles nearly equalling the leaves ; umbel many-flowered, the 

 1 — 3-foliolate bract a little below it : calyx-teeth triangular, short ; corolla 

 purplish marked with green spots : pods thick, 2 in. long. — From Kern 

 Co. northward, in the mountain districts. 



20. L. stipiilaris, Greene, 1. c. ; Benth. 1. c, under Hosackia. Not as 

 tall as the last, more slender, villous with spreading hairs and often some- 

 what glandular : leaflets 15— 21, obovate-oblong, acute, mucronate, }4 — 1 

 in. long : stipules large, ovate : peduncles short, 4 — 8-flowered, the leaf- 



