204 FABACEAE. 



3. A. strigosus (Kell.) Sheldon. Slender, sparsely and minutely 

 pubescent, 15-20 cm. high; leaflets 9-15, linear or cuneate, acute or 

 retuse; flowers many, capitate, on a slender peduncle, purple and 

 white; pod 15 mm. long, slender, incurved, 2-celled, 5-10-seeded. 



In low ground near the coast. March-May. 



4. A. leucopsis Torn (Rattle-weed.) Stems erect, 3-5 dm. 

 high, tomentulose-canescent; leaflets 10-15 pairs, oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, 1 cm. long or more; spike-like racemes, 3-6 cm. long or some- 

 times more; flowers 12 mm. long; calyx-tube campanulate, the teeth 

 subulate, more than half as long as the tube; pod thin, bladdery, 

 oval, unequally sided, 2-3 cm. long, tapering to a stipe 12 mm. 

 long or less. 



Frequent on the plains. March-May. 



5. A. parishii Gray. Nascent parts sparsely pubescent, be- 

 coming glabrous or nearly so; stems somewhat fistulose, much 

 branched from the base and decumbent; leaves about 1 dm. long, 

 bearing about 32 leaflets; leaflets 10-25 mm. long; racemes 2-4 cm. 

 long; flowers greenish-white, 1 cm. long; pods sessile, 2-3 cm. long 

 and nearly as thick. 



Chatsworth Park. 



6. A. antiselli Gray. Stems slender, erect, 3-5 dm. high, cinere- 

 ous-pubescent, leaflets 21-29, linear-oblong, crowded, 4-8 mm. long, 

 glabrous above, pubescent beneath; raceme loosely few-flowered; 

 flowers small, greenish-white; calyx-teeth half the length of the 

 campanulate tube; pod thin, linear-oblong, compressed, glabrous, 

 1-celled, 15 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, tapering to a stipe of about half 

 its length. 



On grassy hillsides in interior valleys. April. 



7. A. pycnostachys Gray. Stout, erect, 6 dm. high, more or 

 less villous-hoary; leaflets about 21, oblong, 12 mm. long; flowers 

 yellowish, in dense cylindric short-peduncled spikes; pods crowded, 

 retrorsely imbricated, ovate, acute, laterally flattened, thin-coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, coarsely reticulate, 1-celled. 



In moist subsaline soil near the sea. July- September. 



8. A. brauntonii Parish. Stems lignescent at base, 1-1.5 m. 

 long, erect or reclining; herbage canescent throughout with a short 

 soft pubescence; leaflets 15-20 pairs, oblong, 2-5 cm. long; flowers 

 and fruit reflexed in compact many-flowered spikes; calyx-teeth 

 slender, equaling the tube; corolla light purple; pod sessile, cori- 

 aceous, oblong, 1 cm, long, 2-celled by the nearly complete infolding 

 of the dorsal suture to near the apex; seeds 2-3. 



Occasional in dry places in the Santa Monica Mountains, Hasse, 

 Braunton. 



12. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Licorice. 



Glandular-viscid erect perennial herbs with unequally 

 pinnate leaves more or less persistent, and flowers In 

 dense axillary peduncled spikes. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 

 narrow. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous; the 



