Hosachia. LEGUMINOS^. -lor 



obovate-oblong, acute and mucronate, a half to an inch long; stipules lar^e, ovate • 

 pediuices an inch or two long, 4-8-flowored: bract near the middle, leaf-lik.." 

 S - 9-loliolate : calyx two lines long ; teeth subulate, short : pod sfrai'dit 1 to ] '' 

 inches long. — Trans. Lmn. Soc. xvii. 365. H. macrojyhyUa, Kello-rcr Iw C'dif 

 Acad. ii. 123. i^. 6a/«am./em, Kellogg, 1. c. 125, hg. 40. «o' -^ roc. UilU. 



From tlie Contra Costa Hills to Monterey. Plant often more or less viscid with a fra-rant 

 glandular secretion. "aoidiii, 



-f- +- Stipules scarious, mostly small. 

 -i-i- Glahrons throughout or hecoming nearly so : bract petioled or loanting. 



3. H. crassifolia, Benth. 1. c. Stout, erect, often 2 or 3 feet high : leaflets 9 

 to 15, minutely pubescent or somewhat villous but soon glabrate, thickish, obovate 

 or oblong, usually obtuse and mucronulate, a half to an inch long: peduncles nearly 

 equalling the leaves, usually many-flowered : bract below the umbel, 1 - 3-foliolate • 

 flowers on slender pedicels, greenish yellow or purplish : calyx-teeth short, trian- 

 gular : pods thick, about 2 inches long. — //, stolomfera, Lindl. Bot. Re" t 1977 

 H. platycarpa, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 323. ° 



From the Columbia River to the Sacramento and common in tlie foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada 

 as far south as the Merced River. 



4. H. bicolor, Dough Glabrous throughout, erect, rather tall and usually stout : 

 leaflets 5 to 9, obovate or oblong, obtuse or acutish, a half to an inch long ; stipules 

 rather large : peduncles mostly longer than the leaves, 3 - 7-flowered, naked or 

 sometimes with a small scarious or 1 - 3-foliolate bract at the summit : flowers 

 nearly sessile, yellow, the wings often white : calyx-teeth triangular, only half as 

 long as the tube: pod slender, nearly 2 inches long.— Benth. in Lindl. Bot. lie", 

 t. 1257. Lotus pinnatus, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2913. ° 



A showy species, in low grounds, from Washington Territoiy to San Franciaco Bay. 



5. H. gracilis, Benth. Much like the last : usually low and slender, the weak 

 stems a span high or more : umbel with a petioled 1 - 3-foli()late bract : flowers 

 yellow, the keel and wings purplish : calyx-teeth nearly equalling the tube : pod 

 shorter.— Trans. Lmn. Soc. xvii. 365; Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 54, t. 15. 



From the Columbia River to Monterey. 



++ -!-+ Pubescent or puberulent : bract nearly sessile at tlie top of the peduncle. 



6. H. Oblongifolia, Benth. Bather slender, erect, minutely appressed-pubes- 

 cent or base of the stem glabrous : leaflets 7 to 11, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 

 about an inch long, acute : peduncles exceeding the leaves, 5 - 7-flowered ; bract 

 nearly sessile, 1 - 3-foliolate, subtending the umbel, usually of a single leaflet: 

 flowers yellow and purplish, the standard orange, turning brown : calyx-teeth subu- 

 late about equalling the tube : pod slender, about 2 inches long : seeds turgid. — 

 r\. Hartw. 305. 



Var. angustifoUa, Watson. Slender, a span higli : leaflets 5 to 7, linear-lance- 

 olate : umbels 1 - 5-flowered. — H. lathyroides, Durand & Hilgard, Pacif. II. Rep. 

 V. b, t. o. 



Mainly dn Southern California: Monterey {Coulter); Fort Tejon {Horn); mountains east of 

 ban Diego {Parry, Palmer) ; the variety at Fort Miller on the San Joaciuin (Hccrmann) and 

 Los Angeles, Wallace. Coulter's locality is very uncertain. 



7. H. Torreyi, Gray. Resembling the last : more or less silky-pubescent, often 

 glabrous below, slender, erect, a foot or two high: leaflets obovate to narrowly 

 oblanceolate, a half to an inch long, obtuse or acute : standard yellow ; wings anil 

 keel white. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 625. 



In the Sierra Nevada, along shaded stream-banks, from the head of Kern lliver to Donner 

 J^ake ; near Fort Tejon, RothrocJc. 



