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slightly curved prickles about 6 mm. long, solitary below the 
axils of the leaves ; leaves trifoliolate ; petioles 6 to 8 em. long, 
canescent when young and usually bearing 1 to 5 small recurved 
prickles ; leaflets firm and thickish, 4cm. to 6 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. 
wide, usually broader than long, flabelliform or deltoid-ovate, 
rounded at apex, truncate or cuneate at base, the terminal ona 
petiolule 35 to 45 mm. long, the lateral on petiolules 5 to 8 mm. 
long, upper surface smooth, lower surface minutely pubescent, 
veins reticulated, conspicuous on both surfaces ; flowers crowded 
in short terminal racemes, numerous, borne on short, velvety- 
canescent pedicels ; calyx 8 to 9 cm. long, campanulate, truncate, 
usually somewhat oblique, white-tomentose ; corolla bright scarlet, 
the vexillum alone projecting beyond the calyx, about 4 cm. long, 
linear-oblong, narrowed at both ends, straight or more usually 
somewhat falecate ; stamens ten, filaments united the greater part 
of their length ; legume linear, torose, narrowed at both ends, 
borne on a stipe about 3 em. long, tipped with the persistent style 
for about the same length, minutely and densely tomentose ; seeds 
oval, 10 to 15 mm. long, bright scarlet with a large whitish hilum. 
Referred with hesitation to #. coralloides DC.* by Dr. Gray and by 
Torrey.+ It differs, however, from the destription in the Pro- 
dromus and from Mocino’s figure (fora tracing of which we are 
indebted to the kindness of M. Casimir DeCandolle) in the pres- 
ence of prickles on the petiole; in the shape and size of the 
leaflets, those of #. coralloides being ovate, rounded at base and 
acutish at apex, smaller and the ’petiolule of the terminal one 
shorter ; in the much larger calyx; in the legume which is de- 
scribed by DeCandolle as smooth and which the figure represents 
with a shorter stipe and beak; and in the hilum of the seed, the 
margin of which is hardly black. 
Galactia Wrightti A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 44 (1852). 
G. tephrodes A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 34 (1853). 
A careful comparison of the types and original descriptions of these 
two forms has led to the conclusion that they are not specifically 
distinct. 
Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 480 (1814). Mrs. Hoyt, Ft. 
Apache. 
Hoffmanseggia Falcaria stricta (Benth.) Fisher, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 
1: 144 (1892). 
KUHNISTERA OCCIDENTALIS A. A. Heller. 
Petalostemon candidus occidentalis A. Gray, ined. 
**Perennial, from a stout branching root; stem erect, branching, 1-2 
ft. high, smooth ; leaflets usually two pairs, oblong-linear, usu- 
aliy a half-inch or less in length, very narrow, thickly dotted be- 
neath ; heads short-peduncled, narrowly cylindrical, usually from 
two to four times as long as broad; bracts early deciduous, but 
rachis covered with filament-like bractlets ; calyx tube smooth, 
the short triangular lanceolate green lobes ciliate ; flowers white ; 
ovary smooth, strongly keeled on the back. 
* Prodr. 2: 413 (1825); Moc. & Sessé, Ic. Fl. Mex. ¢. 253, ined. 
+ Bot. Mex. Bound. Sury. 50 (1859). 
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