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PEA FAMILY. 



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Cracca Virginiana holosericea (Nutt.) Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 27. 1895. 

 Tephrosia holosericea Nutt. Joum. Acad. Phila. 7: 105: 1834. 



Densely woolly-pubescent 4 ; leaflets acutish. Illinois to Wisconsin, Louisiana and Arkansas. 



Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze. Loosely-flowered Goat's Rue. 



(Fig. 2118.) 



Galega spicata Walt. Fl. Car. 188. 1788. 



Tephrosia spicata T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 296. 

 1838. 



Cracca spicata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 175. 

 1891. 



Villous-pubescent with long brown hairs, 

 decumbent or straggling, much branched, 

 i-2 long. Leaves few and distant, short- 

 petioled; leaflets 9-15, short-stalked, oval, 

 oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, nar- 

 rowed, cuneate or rounded at the base, ob- 

 tuse and mucronate at the apex, g // -i5 // 

 long, 3 // -6 // wide; peduncles lateral and 

 terminal, slender, 4 / -io / long; inflorescence 

 interrupted, very loose, 2 / -5 / long; flowers 

 purplish, 6" -8" long; pod linear, finely 

 pubescent, about 2' long, 2^" wide. 



In dry soil, Delaware to Florida, west to 

 Alabama and Mississippi. June-Aug. 



3. .Cracca hispidula (Michx.) Kuntze. 



Few-flowered Goat's Rue. 



(Fig. 2119.) 



Galega hispidula Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. a: 68. 1803. 

 Tephrosia hispidula Pers. Syn. 2: 329. "1807. 

 Cracca hispidula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 175. 1891. 



More or less pubescent, procumbent or straggling, 

 much branched, slender, i-2 long. Leaves petioled; 

 leaflets 5-19, short-stalked, oval, oblong, oblanceolate 

 or obovate, narrowed, rounded or cuneate at the base, 

 obtuse, emarginate or acute at the apex; peduncles lat- 

 eral or terminal, slender, 2 / -4 / long; flowers red-purple, 

 few, terminal, about 6" long; pod linear, I'-i^' long, 

 2 X/ wide, minutely pubescent. 



Dry sandy soil, Virginia to Florida, west to Alabama. 

 May-Aug. 



20. KRAUNHIA Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. 

 [WISTERIA Nutt. Gen. 2: 125. 1818.] 



High-climbing woody vines, with odd-pinnate leaves, and showy blue or purplish flowers 

 in large terminal racemes. Calyx somewhat 2-lipped, the 2 upper teeth slightly shorter than 

 the 3 lower. Standard large, reflexed, clawed, with 2 small appendages at the base of the 

 blade; wings oblong, falcate, auriculate at the base; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens dia- 

 delphous; anthers all alike. Ovary stalked; ovules oo. Pod elongated, torulose, 2-valved, 

 coriaceous, not septate between the seeds. [Named for Kraunh.] 



Four known species, the following of southeastern North America, the others Asiatic. 



