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2. P. candidllS, Michx. Smooth ; leaflets 7-9, lanceolate or linear-ob- 

 long ; heads oblong, when old cylindrical ; bracts awned, longer than the nearly 

 glabrous calyx; corolla white. With n. 1. 



3. P. vi!16sus, Nutt. Soft-downy or silky all over ; leaflets 13- 17, linear 

 or oblong, small (4 - 5" long) ; spikes cylindrical (1 - 5' long), short-peduncled, 

 soft-villous ; corolla rose-color. Wise, to Mo., west to the Rocky Mts. 



4. P. folibsus, Gray. Smooth, very leafy ; leaflets 15-29, linear-oblong; 

 spikes cylindrical, short-peduncled; bracts slender-awned from a lanceolate 

 base, exceeding the glabrous calyx ; petals rose-color. River-banks, 111. and 

 Tenn. 



5. P. multifldrus, Nutt. Glabrous throughout, erect, branching ; leaf- 

 lets 3-9, linear to oblong ; spikes globose, the subulate-setaceous bracts much 

 shorter than the acutely toothed calyx ; petals white. Kan. to Tex. 



17. TEPHROSIA, Pers. HOARY PEA. 



Calyx about equally 5-cleft. Standard roundish, usually silky outside, turned 

 back, scarcely longer than the coherent wings and keel. Stamens monadel- 

 phous or diadelphous. Pod linear, flat, several-seeded, 2-valved. Hoary per- 

 ennial herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and white or purplish racemed flowers. 

 Leaflets mucronate, veiny. (Name from Tempos, ash-colored or hoary.) 



1. T. Virginiana, Pers. (GOAT'S RUE. CATGUT.) Silky-villous with 

 whitish hairs when young; stem erect and simple (1 -2 high), leafy to the top ; 

 leaflets 17-29, linear-oblong; flowers large and numerous, clustered in a ter- 

 minal oblong dense raceme or panicle, yellowish-white marked with purple. 

 Dry sandy soil. June, July. Roots long and slender, very tough. 



2. T. spicata, Torr. & Gray. Villous with rusty hairs ; stems branched 

 below, straggling or ascending (2 long), few-leaved leaflets 9-15, obovate 

 or oblong-wedge-shaped, often notched; flowers few, in a loose and inter- 

 rupted very long-peduncled spike, reddish. Dry soil, from Del. and Va. to 

 Fla. and Miss. July. 



3. T. hispidula, Pers. Hairy with some long and rusty or only minute 

 and appressed pubescence ; stems slender (9 - 24' long), divergently branched, 

 straggling; leaflets 5-15, oblong, varying to obovate-wedge-shaped and ob- 

 lanceolate; peduncles longer than the leaves, 2 - 4-Jlowered ; flowers reddish- 

 purple. Dry sandy soil, Va. to Fla. and Ala. 



18. INDIGOPEBA, L. INDIGO. 



Calyx small, equally 5-cleft. Standard roundish, silky outside , wings co- 

 herent ; keel erect, gibbous or spurred at base. Stamens diadelphous ; con- 

 nective gland-like. Pod 1 - several-seeded, septate within between the seeds. 

 Herbs or shrubs, mostly canescent with appressed hairs fixed by the middle, 

 with odd-pinnate faintly-nerved leaves, and pink or purplish fldwers in naked 

 axillary spikes. (So named because some of the species yield the indigo of 

 commerce.) 



1. I. leptOS^pala, Nutt. A perennial herb, -2 high; leaflets 5-9, 

 oblanceolate; spikes very loose; pods linear, 6-9-seeded, obtusely 4-angled, 

 reflexed, V long. Kan. to Tex. and Fla. 



