FABACEAE 611 



8. Cracca Lindheimeri (A. Gray) Kuntze. Root tuberous and woody. Foliage 

 cinereous-pubescent or sericeous : stems prostrate or ascending, 6-12 dm. long, rather stout, 

 flexous, branching, spreading, more or less strongly angled : leaves oblong, linear-oblong, 

 or obovate-oblong in outline ; stipules somewhat persisting ; leaflets 9-17, the blades of the 

 lateral ones obovate or suborbicular, 2-3 cm. long, apiculate, pubescent above, densely 

 sericeous or velvety-pubescent beneath : racemes loosely many-flowered : peduncle 1-2 

 dm. long : calyx sericeous ; lobes acuminate, about the length of the tube : corolla red- 

 purple, standard pubescent : pods 3-4 cm. long, undulate, densely velvety-pubescent, 

 tawny or yellowish. 



In dry soil, Texas and New Mexico to northern Mexico. 



9. Cracca onobrychoides (Nutt. ) Kuntze. Koot long. Foliage pilose with spread- 

 ing rusty hairs. Stems erect, several dm. long, rather stout, simple or branching, flexuous, 

 striate and angled above ; leaves oblong or linear-oblong in outline, 1-1.6 dm. long ; stipules 

 8-12 mm. long, often persisting ; petioles 1-3 cm. long ; leaflets 13-23, the blades of the 

 lateral ones often retuse, apiculate, pubescent or glabrate above, more or less closely silky- 

 pilose beneath : peduncles rusty-villous or rarely glabrate : bracts 5 mm. long, subulate, 

 mostly caducous : pedicels slightly longer than the bracts : flowers 2 or several t together, 

 often the whole length of the peduncles : calyx more or less pubescent ; the upper lobes 

 shorter than the tube, the lower one subulate, longer : corolla white turning to pale scarlet ; 

 standard pubescent on the outer surface, green toward the middle : pods 3-5 cm. long, 5 

 mm. wide, linear, acute, somewhat falcate, spreading, puberulent. 



In dry soil, Arkansas and the Indian Territory to Alabama and Texas. 



10. Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze. Root elongated. Foliage villous or villons- 

 hirsute : stems decumbent or ascending, 3-15 dm. long, simple or diffusely branched, 

 angled, spreading, flexuous, often glabrate in age : leaves oblong or linear-oblong in outline, 

 0.5-1.5 dm. long ; stipules more or less persistent, 5-10 mm. long ; leaflets 5-15, the blades 

 of the lateral ones oval, oblong or cuneate-oblong, (terminal one mostly obovate), 1-2.5 

 cm. long, often reflexed, mucronulate, more or less densely silky above : peduncles 2-edged, 

 1-3 dm. long : pedicels remote, few, or clustered near the top of the peduncle : bracts 

 subulate, 5-10 mm. long : calyx -lobes subulate, slightly longer than the tube, copiously 

 villous : corolla white, fading purple, 1-1.5 cm. long ; standard fully 1 cm. long : pods 

 linear, 3-5 cm. long, acute, rather straight. 



In dry soil, Virginia to Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi. 



11. Cracca flexuosa ( Chapm. ) Heller. Root relatively slender. Foliage pubescent 

 with somewhat spreading hairs or partially glabrate : stems slender, 2-6 dm. long, or longer, 

 zigzag, sometimes almost glabrous, more or less spreading: leaves few, 4-11 cm. long; 

 leaflets 3-17, the blades of the lateral ones linear or nearly so, spreading or deflexed, deli- 

 cately veined beneath, acute or short-acuminate, that of the terminal one conspicuously 

 longer than those of the lateral : calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, longer than the tube, 

 sparingly villous : corolla becoming purplish ; standard about 1 cm. long. 



In dry or sandy soil, Florida and Alabama. 



12. Cracca hispidula (Michx. ) Kuntze. Root more or less fusiform. Foliage 

 minutely appressed-pubescent or glabrate : stems 1-3 dm. long or longer, decumbent or as- 

 surgent, dichotomously branching, straggling, angled : leaves 3-6 cm. long, linear-oblong 

 in outline, with short petioles 5-10 mm. long or the upper ones often sessile ; leaflets 7-13, 

 the blades of the lateral ones elliptic, oval -oblong, or linear-oblong, 0.8-2 cm. long, acutish, 

 or sometimes obtuse, apiculate, reflexed, glabrous above, the nerves often turning purplish 

 beneath : peduncles ancipital, 5-10 cm. long : bracts 2-5 mm. long, setaceous : calyx-lobes 

 acute, as long as the tube : corolla white, turning pink, 10-12 mm. long ; standard 

 minutely pubescent : pods about 4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, straightish or slightly falcate, 

 minutely hispid. 



In sandy soil and low pine lands, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. 



13. Cracca Floridana Vail. Root relatively short, stout, woody. Foliage pubes- 

 cent and somewhat viscid : stems spreading, prostrate, 2-6 dm. long or longer, dichoto- 

 mously branching, angled above, clothed with a short appressed or spreading of ten 'some- 

 what viscid pubescence : leaves 4-10 cm. long, oblong or rarely linear-oblong in outline ; 

 stipules 3-5 mm. long, subulate, often persisting; petioles 1-2.5 cm. long ; leaflets 9-13, 

 the blades of the lateral ones oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse or truncate at the apex, 

 apiculate, 1.5-3 cm. long, glabrous and yellowish green above, lighter, strigose with 

 whitish hairs and the veins turning reddish beneath : peduncles 7-20 cm. long, appressed- 

 pubescent : pedicels 5-8 mm. long, solitary or geminate : corolla becoming purple, 1-1.5 cm. 

 long ; standard finely pubescent : pods 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, erect, straight, strigillose. 



In pine lands, Florida to Louisiana. 



