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Eefs. — PsoRALEA CASTOREA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:291 (1879), type loc. "near Beaver 

 City, s. Utah, on sandy ridges". Palmer 96; Jones, Zoe 4:28 (1893) ; Jepson, Man. 561 (1925). 

 Pediomelum castoreum Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 24:22 (1919). 



P. GLANDULOSA L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1075 (1763) ; Greene, Fl. Fr. 16 (1891). Low shrub; leaf- 

 lets narrowly lanceolate; racemes elongated, lax; corolla pale. — "In an old field near Berkeley 

 where it may have been planted, July 10, 1881." — E. L. Greene in Gray Herb. 



21. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Liquorice 



Perennial herbs with glandular-viscid herbage. Leaves odd-pinnate, glandu- 

 lar-dotted. Flowers yellowish-white, in axillary peduncled spikes. Calyx 5-cleft, 

 with the 2 upper lobes shorter or partly united. Stamens mainly diadelphous, the 

 alternate anthers smaller. Ovary 2 to many-ovuled; style short and rigid, curved 

 at the tip. Pod bur-like, densely beset with hooked prickles, in ours oblong, few- 

 seeded, indehiscent. — Species about 12, all continents. (Greek glukus, sweet, and 

 rhiza, root.) 



1. G. lepidota Pursh. Stems erect, 2 feet high; herbage viscid-puberulent 

 and sometimes with minute scales; leaflets 11 to 15, oblong- to ovate-lanceolate, 

 1 to 2 inches long; stipules linear-subulate; spikes broadly oblong, 1 to l^/^ inches 

 long; peduncles shorter than the leaves, % to 3 inches long, with spreading glandu- 

 lar hairs; calyx very glandular; pod % to % inch long, reddish-brown, 2 to 6-seeded. 



Rich soil of low or moist lands in the valleys or on the plains, 10 to 7500 feet : 

 throughout California. North to British Columbia, east to Ontario, south to 

 Mexico. June. 



Logs.— Middle Creek sta., Shasta Co., Heller 7958; Larrabee Creek, Eel River, Tracy 4668; 

 Blue Lakes, Lake Co., Jepson; Vacaville, Jepson 10,572; Main Prairie, Solano Co., Jepson 13,600; 

 Andrus Isl., lower Sacramento River, Jepson 13,597 ; lone, Amador Co., Braunton 1086 ; Stockton, 

 Sanford; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 13,599; Milpitas, B. J. Smith; upper San Benito River near Lorenzo 

 Creek, Jepson 12,234; upper Cholame Creek, se. Monterey Co., Jepson 15,905; Pioneer Park, 

 Cuyama River, Jepson; Silver Canon, "White Mts., Jepson 7211; Lone Pine, Inyo Co., Jepson 

 5142; Tehachapi Mts., H. L. Bauer; Rock Creek, n. side San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 588; New- 

 berry; Victorville, Jepson 5611; Newhall (Proc. S. Cal. Acad. 1:7) ; Banning, Gilman 41; Elsi- 

 nore River, Alice King; Temecula Canon, Riverside Co., Munz 7132; San Diego Co. (Orcutt, Fl. 

 S. &L. Cal. check-list 4). 



Refs.— GLYCYRRHIZA LEPIDOTA Pursh, Fl. 480 (1814), type loc. "on the banks of the Mis- 

 souri"; Jepson, Man. 561, fig. 551 (1925). G. lepidota var. glutinosa Wats.; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 

 1:144 (1876); Jepson, Fl.W. Mid. Cal. 293 (1901), ed. 2, 234 (1911). C. glutinosa 'i^utt.; T. & G. 

 Fl. 1:298 (1838), type loc. Lewis River, Nuttall. 



22. KENTROPHYTA Nutt. 



Low tufted perennials with fine silky appressed pubescence and persistent 

 odd-pinnate leaves. Lower stipules searious, united on the side of stem opposite 

 the leaf; upper stipules and leaflets rigid and awn-pointed. Peduncles axillary, 

 bearing 1 to 3 small flowers. Cal>^ 5-cleft. Pod 1-celled, 1 to 2-seeded, included 

 in the calyx. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Seeds large for the size of the 

 pod. — Species 2. (Greek kentron, spur or prickle, and phytum, plant.) 



Peduncles almost as long as the leaves ; leaflets linear-oblanceolate, the midrib not prominent........ 



l.K. tegetana. 



Peduncles very short or almost none ; leaflets subulate, the corneous midrib very prominent 



2. E. montana. 



1. K. tegetaria Rydb. Stems closely branched and the leaves crowded, form- 

 ing dense mats 3 to 6 inches wide; herbage silky-canescent with ascending hairs; 

 leaflets 5 to 7, mostly 6, narrow-oblanceolate, acute, cuspidate, conduplicate, 11/2 

 to 2 lines long; peduncles (1 or) 2-flowered, 1 to 11/2 lines long; flowers 1% to 2 

 lines long; calyx-teeth subulate or acerose, equaling the tube; corolla-banner pale 

 purple, the white wings shorter, the whitish keel purple-tipped, shorter still; pods 

 compressed, 2 lines long. 



