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slender glabroas glaucous species, the minute and pale 

 flowers (1 or 2) at the end of a filiform peduncle. The pods, 

 manifestly constricted between the seeds, are less promptly 

 dehiscent than in any other of our annual species. Common 

 throughout western California and reaches the British 

 boundary. Nuttall's type of Hosachia microphylla in the 

 Torrey herbarium is of this species plainly enough. I know 



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7. L. SALsuGixuoUS. Hosacl 



& Gray Fl. i. 326 (1838). Ascending or depressed, sparsely 

 strigose, somewhat succulent, the branches 8 to 18 inches 

 long : peduncles an inch long, 1- to 3-flowered, naked or with 

 a conspicuous 1- to 3-foliolate bract : corolla yellow, 3 lines 

 long, banner and wings fully equalling the straight keel ; pod 

 little compressed : seeds obliquely oval, compressed, smooth- 

 Common from Monterey southward throughout California, 

 chiefly in clayey soils toward the sea, but also on subsaline 

 flats of the interior. 



8. L. HUMiLis. Hosaclda marifima, Greene, Pitt. i. 288, 

 not of Nuttall. Habit and texture of the last, but every way 

 smaller, the branches apparently prostrate : leaflets 4 or 5, 

 obovate, obtuse : peduncles shorter than the leaves, 1- to 3- 

 flowered, iiakefl or bracted : corolla 2 lines long, reddish, 

 the banner and wings notably shorter than the broad obtuse 

 abruptly inflexed keel : pod nearly terete, less than an inch 

 long, 6- to 8-seeded : seeds very small, almost spherical, 

 smooth. This well marked species is of the Lower Cali- 

 fornian Peninsula ; San Bartolome Bay, Lieut. Pond. 



9. L. TOMEXTELLus. Prostrate, much branched, quies- 

 cently tomentulose : leaflets 5 or 7, cuneate-obovate or 

 -oblong, obtuse : peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, 

 the lowest bractless and 1-flowered, the later often bracted 

 and 2-flowered : corolla yellow, 3 lines long, twice the length 

 of the calyx : pod narrow, compressed, an inch or more iu 



