154 LEGUMINOS. OXYTROPIS. 
GLYCYRRHIZA. 
12 OXYTROPIS DC. Astragal. 24 t, 2-6. 
Perennial, very rarely annual, herbaceous, or sometimes suf- 
frutescent, often acaulescent plants with unequally pinnate 
leaves and axillary or radical pedunculate spikes of various col- 
ored flowers. Calyy &-toothed. Keel with a subulate point. 
Pods partly 2-celled by the introflexion of the upper or placen- 
tal-suture. 
0. viscida Nutt, T. &. G. Fl. i, 341. ‘‘Stemless, cespitose, hairy and 
viscid ; leaflets numerous (16-29 pairs), oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute ; 
peduncles longer than the leaves, about i4 inches high; stipules pilose, 
membranaceous, with a long acumination: spikes subcylindrical; bracts as 
long as the calyx; teeth of the calyx subulate, about the length of the 
tube; legumes short, terete, pubescent, acuminate.’’ Eastern Oregon to 
the Rocky Mountains. 
138 GLYCYRRHIZA Tourn. L. Gen. n. 882. (Liquorice). 
Erect perennial herbs with unequally pinnate leaves decidu- 
ous stipules, the flowers in dense axillarv pedunculate spikes 
with caducous bracts. Calyx tubular, gibbous at base, 5-cleft, 
the two upper segments partly united. Upper petal ovate-lanceo- 
late, straight, the lateral ones acute, united at the tip, keel not 
pointed. Stamens diadelphous. Pod ovate or oblong, com- 
pressed, often echinate, 1-celled, few-seeded, scarcely dehiscent, 
sessile. Rootstock rather large, sweet. 
G. lepidota Nutt. Gen. ii, 106. Tallyand stout, 2-5 feet high, some- 
what glandular-puberulent or the youngér leaves slightly silky: leaflets 
punctate, 6-8 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, often acuminate, usual- 
ly 1-2 inches long; stipules linear-subulate: peduncles about equalling 
the leaves; spikes short; bracts lanceolate, acuminate; flowers ochrolea- 
cous, nearly 6 lines long; calyx half as long, the slender teeth much 
longer than the tube: pod thickly beset with hooked prickles, oblong, 6 — 
lines long, 2-6-seeded. On sandy plains and river banks, Brit. Columbia 
to California, Missouri and Arkansas. 
G. glutinosa Nutt. T.&G. Fl. i, 298. Stems rather stout, from long 
running »rootstocks, 2-4 feet high; glandular-pubescent leaflets oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, strigose with scaly glands: duncles much 
shorter than the leaves, very glandular: spikes short; bracts lanceolate 
with a long acuminate point ; caiyx very glandular, the teeth nearly equal: 
pods densely beset with hooked bristles, 2-6-seeded. On sandy river 
banks, Brit. Columbia to California. 
Tribe 7. Hedysarex, DC. Prodr. ii, 307. Herbs or shrubs with — 
1-many-foliolate or simple usually stipellate leaves and racemose, 
spicate or umbellate axillary or terminal inflorescence. Corolla 
paptlionaceous. Stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous.. Pods 
usually transversely divided into 1-seeded indehiscent joints. Coty- 
ledons plain, foliaceous after germination. Radicle incurved. 
14 HEDYSARUM Jeaum in Desy. Journ. Bot. iii, 61, L. gen. n. 887. 
Herbs with unequally pinnate leaves, scarious stipules, entire 
usually pellucid-punctate exstipellate leaflets and purple, white 
or yellow flowers in axillary pedunculate racemes with scarious 
or setaceous bracts. Calyx 5-toothed or -parted, the linear-sub- 
