GENUS 31. 



PEA FAMILY. 



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7. Oxytropis Belli (Britton) Palibine. Bell's 

 Oxytrope. Fig. 2568. 



Spiesia Belli Britton ; J. M. Macoun, Can. Rec. Sci. 



1894: 148. 1894. 



Aragallus Belli Greene, Pittonia 3: 212. 1897. 

 O. Belli Palibine, Bull. Soc. Bot. Geneve 2: 19. 1910. 



Acaulescent, tufted, loosely villous with white 

 hairs. Stipules membranous, ovate or oblong, acute 

 or acuminate, imbricated, villous or glabrate, 5" -7" 

 long; leaves 3'-6' long; leaflets oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, 

 3 "-4" long, i "-2" wide, in verticils of 3 or 4; pedun- 

 cles about equalling the leaves ; inflorescence capi- 

 tate ; pod oblong, erect-spreading, densely pubescent 

 with black hairs or some longer whitish ones inter- 

 mixed, about 9" long and 3" thick, 2-3 times as long 

 as the black-pubescent calyx, very nearly or quite 

 2-celled by the intrusion of the ventral suture, the tip 

 erect ; corolla not seen. 



Hudson Bay. Summer. 



32. GLYCYRRHIZA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 741. 1753. 



Perennial herbs, with thick sweet roots, odd-pinnate leaves, and blue or white flowers in 

 axillary spikes or heads. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, the two upper sometimes partly united. 

 Standard narrowly ovate or oblong, short-clawed ; wings oblong, acutish ; keel acute or obtuse, 

 shorter than the wings. Stamens mainly diadelphous; anthers alternately smaller and longer. 

 Pod sessile, covered with prickles or glands, nearly indehiscent, continuous between the seeds. 

 [Greek, sweet-root.] 



About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone, southern South America and Australia. 

 Besides the following, another occurs in California. Type species : Glycyrrhiza echinata L. 



i. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh. Wild or 

 American Licorice. Fig. 2569. 



Liquivitia lepidota Nutt. in Eraser's Cat. Hyponym. 1813. 

 Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 480. 1814. 



Erect, branching, i-3 high, the foliage with 

 minute scales or glands. Stipules lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 2"-3" long, deciduous; leaves pe- 

 tioled; leaflets 11-19, lanceolate, or oblong, acute or 

 obtuse and mucronate at the apex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, entire, very short-stalked, io"-i8" 

 long, 3"-6" wide; peduncles much shorter than the 

 leaves ; spikes dense, many-flowered, i'-2' long, about 

 9" thick; flowers yellowish-white, 6" long; calyx- 

 teeth slender, longer than the tube ; pod about 6" 

 long, few-seeded, oblong, densely covered with 

 hooked prickles. 



Hudson Bay to Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Washington, 

 Iowa), Missouri, Chihuahua and Arizona. Locally in 

 waste grounds farther east. May-Aug. Licorice-root. 



33. CORONILLA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 742. 1753- 



Herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and purple purplish or yellow flowers, in axillary pedun- 

 cled heads or umbels. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, the 2 upper more or less united. Petals 

 clawed ; standard nearly orbicular ; wings oblong or obliquely obovate ; keel incurved, beaked 

 Stamens diadelphous (9 and i) ; anthers all alike. Pod terete, angled or compressed, curved 

 or straight, jointed. [Diminutive of corona, crown.] 



About 25 species, natives of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. Type species: Coronilla 

 valentina L. 



