Pulse Family 217 



villous, leafy ; leaflets usually 4, cuneate-obovate to oblong, 6-12 

 mm. long; calyx-teeth broadly subulate, equaling the tube; 

 corolla 6 mm. long, yellow; standard broadly ovate, erect; pod 

 pubescent, straight, 14-20 mm. long, 5-7-seeded. (H. subpinnata 

 T. & G.) 



Frequent on dry hillsides and plains. March-May. 



5. L. humistratus Greene. Much resembling depauperate 

 forms of the last but more diffuse ; herbage soft villous ; flowers 

 nearly sessile, yellow ; calyx-teeth linear, much longer than the 

 tube ; pod oblong, 1 cm. long, pilose, 2-3-seeded. (H. brachycarpa 

 Benth.) 



Habitat of the last and as generally distributed, but less common. 



= = Peduncles few-many- flowered; bracts usually present; standard 



rather remote from the other petals, more or less reflexed. 

 (a) Annuals. 



6. It. micrantlius Benth. Erect, slender, 5-20 cm. high, gla- 

 brous; leaflets 3-5, obovate and small to narrowly oblong and 

 12-16 mm. long; peduncles filiform; bracts 1-3-foliate; flowers 

 4 mm. long or less, yellow, turning reddish ; keel sharply incurved 

 at apex, about equaling the wings; blade of standard cordate; 

 pod 2.5 cm. long, compressed, constricted between the seeds; 

 seeds oval or roundish, slightly compressed, smooth. (H. parvi- 

 flora Benth.) 



Santa Monica and Santa Ana Mountains in open grassy places. Not 

 common. April-June. 



7. L. salsuginosus Greene. Ascending or decumbent, minute- 

 ly strigose or nearly glabrous, somewhat succulent, the branches 

 2-4 dm. long; leaflets 4-6, obovate, obtuse, 8-12 mm. long; ped- 

 uncles about equaling the leaves, 1-4-flowered ; bracts 1-3-foliate 

 or sometimes wanting; flowers yellow, 6-8 mm. long; calyx- 

 teeth linear-subulate, about equaling the tube; standard and 

 wings equaling the straight keel ; pod scarcely compressed, 2-3 

 cm. long, 1 0-20- seeded ; seeds obliquely oval, smooth. (H. mari- 

 tima Nutt.) 



In moist places on the plains and in the canyons of the foothills. March- 

 May. 



8. It. rubellus (Nutt.) Greene. Slender, prostrate, strigose- 

 pubescent, or nearly glabrous, not at all succulent ; leaflets 6-10, 

 linear-oblong, mostly acutish ; early peduncles shorter than the 



