Pulse Family 223 



** Perennials. 



+-Pods bladdery-inflated. 



-"Pods stipitate. 



4. A. leucopsis Torr. (RATTLE- WEED.) Stems erect, 3-5 dm. 

 high, tomentulose-canescent ; leaflets 10-15 pairs, oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, 1 cm . long or more ; spike-like racemes , 3-6 cm. long or some- 

 times more; flowers 12 mm. long; calyx-tube campanulate, the 

 teeth subulate, more than half as long as the tube; pod thin, 

 bladdery, oval, unequally sided, 2-3 cm. long, tapering to a stipe 

 12 mm. long or less. 



Frequent on the plains. March-May. 



+++* Pods sessile. 



5. A. Parishii Gray. Nascent parts sparsely pubescent, 

 becoming glabrous or nearly so ; stems somewhat fistulose, much 

 branched from the base and decumbent ; leaves about 1 dm. long,, 

 bearing about 32 leaflets ; leaflets 10-25 mm. long ; racemes 2-4 

 cm. long; flowers greenish-white-, 1 cm. long; pods sessile, 2-& 

 cm. long and nearly as thick. 



Chats-worth Park. 



** Pods not bladdery-inflated. . 



6. A. Antiselli Gray. Stems slender, erect, 3-5 dm. high, 

 cinereous-pubescent, leaflets 21-29, linear-oblong, crowded, 4-& 

 mm. long, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; raceme loosely 

 few-flowered ; flowers small, greenish- white ; calyx-teeth half the 

 length of the campanulate tube; pod thin, linear-oblong, com- 

 pressed, glabrous, 1-celled, 15 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, tapering to 

 a stipe of about half its length. 



On grassy hillsides in our interior valleys. April. 



7. A. pycnostachys Gray. Stout, erect, 6 dm. high, more 

 or less villous-hoary ; leaflets about 21, oblong, 12 mm. long; 

 flowers yellowish, in dense cylindric short-peduncled spikes; 

 pods crowded, retrorsely imbricated, ovate, acute, laterally flat- 

 tened, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, coarsely reticulate, 1-celled. 



In moist subsaline soil near the sea. July-September. 



8. A. Brauntonii Parish. Stems lignescent at base, 1-1.5 m. 

 long, erect or reclining; herbage canescent throughout with a 

 short soft pubescence ; leaflets 15-20 pairs, oblong, 2-5 cm. long ; 



