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length^ 5- to 7-seeded : seeds from orbicular to oval, com- 

 pressed, the surface covered with a minute and low tubercu- 

 latiou. 



At Los Angeles Bay, Lower California, 1887, Dr. Edward 

 Palmer, Xo. 602, distributed as '' Hosaclia sirigosaP 



10. L. EUBELLUS, Hosackia rtihcUa, Nuti, Torr. & Gray 

 n. i. 326 (1838). H. sfrigosa, Gray in part, not of Nuttall. 

 Prostrate, slender, branching freely, strigose-pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous : leaflets 6 to 10, linear-oblong, mostly 

 acutish ; peduncles usually shorter tlian the leaves, bract- 

 less and 1-tiowered, the later longer, bracted and 2-flowered : 

 corolla reddish, scarcely twice the length of the calyx : pod 

 slender, straight, 7- to 10-seeded ; seeds quadrate, minutely 



tuberculate. 



Plentiful in sandv soils, at San Francisco, Alameda and far 

 southward, but apparently only toward tlie sea ; not in the 

 interior. Readily distinguished from all its allies by the only 

 faintly tuberculate square seeds and small reddish corolla. 



11- L. NUDiFLOEUS. Hosuckia nudiflora, Nutt. 1. c. Much 

 like the preceding in habit, foliage, etc., but flowers thrice as 

 large, yellow : pod broader, more compressed, not straight 

 but curved upward at apex : seeds larger, simply quadrate, 



faintly tuberculate. 

 Of more southerly distribution than the last, and belonging 



equally to the seaboard and the interior. 



12. L. STEIGOSUS, Hosacl 



also of 



Gray, Brew. & Wats. excl. byu. H. microphylla, nudijiora 

 and rubella. Strigosely pubescent, much branched, decum- 

 bent or prostrate : peduncles elongated, usually 1- or 2- 

 flowered and 8-foliolate-bracted : corolla yellow, 4 or 5 lines 

 long : pod pubescent, slightly curved upwards at the apex : 

 see.ls quadrate but somewhat cruciform, being deeply notched 

 f^t each end and at the hilum, the surface closely sinuate- 

 rugose. 



