Glycyrrhiza. LEGUMINOS^. 143 



long, linear-oblong : flowers purple, 4 lines long, on short pedicels : calyx half as 

 long, the ovate acute teeth shorter than the tube. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 132. 



Known only from a scanty specimen collected by Parry in dry washes in the San Bernardino 

 Mountains, near Cajon Pass. 



8. D. Fremontii, Torr. Shrubby, much branched, silky-puberulent or pubes- 

 cent : leaflets 1 to 3 pairs, oblong-obovate, obtuse, 2 or 3 lines long : flowers purple, 4 

 lines long, very nearly sessile : calyx half as long, somewhat pubescent ; the teeth 

 triangular, acute, nearly equalling the tube : pod 4 to G lines long. — Gray, PI. 

 Thurb. 316; Watson, Bot. King Exp. 65. 



On rocks near Muddy River, S. Nevada {Fremont) ; also by Lieut. Wliccler in the same region. 



9. D. Kingii, Watson. Low, somewhat shrubby, diff'usely branched, sparingly 

 appressed silky, the lax spinulose branches and foliage yellowish-green : leaflets 1 to 

 4 pairs, oblong, obtuse, 2 or 3 lines long ; the terminal longer, linear-oblong : flowers 

 scattered upon the brancblets, nearly sessile, purple, 3 or 4 lines long : calyx flnely 

 pubescent ; the shortly acuminate teeth equalling the tube, shorter than the coroUa : 

 pod small, pubescent. — Bot. King Exp. 64, t. 10. 



On drifting sand in the Hot Spring Mountains, Northwestern Nevada, Watson. 



-{- -H Leaves simple. 



10. D. Schottii, Torr. Shrubby, slender, nearly glabrous, somewhat spinose, 

 the branches nearly glandless : leaves scattered, narrowly linear, an inch long : 

 flowers few, on short slender pedicels in an open raceme, sometimes solitary, purple, 

 4 lines long : calyx half as long, obscurely glandular ; the teeth very short, acutish : 

 ovary pubescent, 2-ovuled : pod 4 lines long, with a single large seed. — Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 53. 



Banks of the Colorado, near Fort Yuma {Scliott) ; Colorado Desert, Palmer. 



11. D. spinosa, Gray. A shrub, much branched and very spinose, 4 to 15 feet 

 high, hoary with a minute appressed pubescence : leaves scattered, cuneate-oblong 

 or nearly linear, obtuse, nearly sessile, 4 to 8 lines long, very deciduous : flowers 

 nearly sessile, in a loose spike, purple, 5 lines long : calyx half as long, marked by 

 a row of conspicuous glands, the broadly ovate obtusish teeth much shorter tlian the 

 tube: ovules 6: pod twice longer than the calyx, 1 -seeded. — PI. Thurb. 315; 

 Torrey, Pacif. E. Eep. vii. 9, t. 3. Asagrcea spinosa, Baillon, Adansonia, ix. 232. 



On Carico Creek (Antisell), in the Colorado Desert (Thurbcr), and eastward on the Gila. Made 

 a distinct genus by Baillon, mainly on the larger number of ovules and the sim]>le leaves. 



12. GLYCYRRHIZA, Linn. Liquorice. 



Flowers nearly as in Astragalus. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous : anther- 

 cells confluent at the top, the alternate anthers smaller. Ovary sessile, 2 - many- 

 ovuled : style short and rigid, curved at the tip. Pod ovate or oblong-linear, com- 

 pressed and often curved, scarcely dehiscent, few-seeded, glandular or somewhat 

 prickly. — Erect perennial herbs, glandular-viscid ; leaves unequally pinnate ; stip- 

 ules deciduous ; flowers in dense axillary pedunculate spikes, with caducous bracts ; 

 root large and sweet. 



About a dozen species, found in all quarters of the globe but Africa ; only one North American. 



1. G. lepidota, N"utt. Tall and stout (2 or 3 feet high), somewhat _ glandular- 

 puberulent, or the younger leaves slightly silky : leaflets punctate, 6 to 8 pairs, oblong- 

 lanceolate, mucronate and often acuminate, usually an inch or two long : spikes 

 short : flowers ochroleucous, nearly 6 lines long : calyx half as long ; the slender 

 teeth much longer than the tube : pod thickly beset witli liooked prickles, oblong, 

 6 lines long, 2 - 6-seeded. — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2150 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 298. 



