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140 LEGUMINOSAE. Lotus. 
remote from the others; keel broad and obtuse above. The ma- 
ture calyx deciduous with the indehiscent, usually small, arcuate, 
slender-pointed, few-seeded pod. 
ye Douglasii Greene |. c. 149. Hesackia decumbens Benth. Villous- 
pubescent and somewhat tomentose: stems slender, ascending or diffusely 
procumbent, 6-18 inches long, from a thick very tough perennial root: 
leaflets 5-7, cuneate-oboyate to oblong, mostly acute, 3-6 lines long: um- 
bels of yellow flowers on short peduncles, subtended by a 1-3-foliolate 
bract :> ey its.slender,teeth often.as long as the campanulate tube: 
s pubescent, falcate, the beak longer than tlre seed-bearing portion, 
about 2-seeded. Open plains and_ hillsides, Brit. Columbia to California. 
s 4. Hosacxta Benth. Bot. Reg. xv, under t. 1257, as 
Genus. Perennial herbs with pinnate leaves, true stipules, the 
leaflets evenly distributed upon a linear rachis. | Peduncles um- 
bellately many-flowered, the flowers usually subtended by a 
bract. Claw of the upper petal remote from the others, the lat- 
eral ones partially cohering with the broad and mostly very ob- 
tuse keel and spreading away from the claw of the upper one. 
Pods acute above, linear, straight or nearly so, 5-20 seeded, gla- 
brous, terete or somewhat compressed, tardily dehiscent. 
* Glabrous throughont or becoming so: bracts petioled or wanting: 
stipules scarious : leaflets 5-15: flowers rather large. . 
L. erassifolius Greene |. c.147.  osackia crassifolia Benth. Stout, 
erect, often 2-+ feet high, widely branching: leaflets 9-15, minutely pubes- 
cent or somewhat villous but soon glabrate, thickish obovate or oblong, 
usually obtuse and mucronulate, 6-12 lines long. peduncies nearly equal- 
ling the leaves, usually many-flowered: bract usually some distance be- 
low the umbel, 1-3-foliolate: flowers on slender pedicels, 2-4 lines long: 
tube of the calyx campanulate, 3 lines long, truncate, the very short tri- 
angular teeth distant from each other; petals much longer than the calyx, 
dull dark purple: pods thick, about 2 inches long by 5 lines in diameter: 
seeds nearly orbicular. In_ rich alluvial soil, foothills of the Caseade 
Moantains, Washington to California. 
L. pinnatus Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2913. Hosackia bicolor Dougi. Glab- 
rous throughout: stems numerous, from a thick perennial root, . erect, 
branched above, 1-2 feet high: leaflets 5-9 obovate or oblong, obtuse or 
acutish, 6-12 lines long; stipules rather large, triangular, acuminate; ped- 
uncles mostly longer than the leaves, 53-10-flowered, naked, or sometimes 
with a small searious or 1-3-foliolate bract at the summit: flowers nearly 
sessile, 8-10 lines long; calyx campanulate, oblique, its triangular teeth 
but half as long as the tube; upper petal bright yellow, the laters] ones 
usually white: pods nearly terete, 2 inches long, but little more than'a 
line in diameter: seeds numerous, ob:ong. In springs and ditches, Brit. 
Columbia to California. 
L. formosissimus Greene 1]. ¢. Hosackia gracilis Benth. Low and 
slender, the weak stems 6-12 inches long: leaflets 5-7, broadly obovate to 
obovate-oblong, obtuse, the lowest truncate or retuse ; stipules thin, ovate: 
pedicels equalling or shorter than the leaves; bract petioled, 1-3-foliolate : 
teeth of the. calyx unequal, triangular, acute or acuminate, shorter than 
the campanulate tube ; petals 7 lines long, the upper one yellow, the wide 
spreading lateral ones and much _ shorter keel rose-color: pods short. In 
moist ground along the seaboard, Oregon to California. 
* * Pubescent or puberulent; bracts nearly sessile, at the top of 
the peduncles. 
