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9. L. strigosus (Nutt.), Greene. Strigose-pubescent, decumbent or 

 prostrate: peduncles long, commonly 1 2-flowered and 3-foliolate- 

 bracted: fl. 45 lines long, yellow: pod pubescent, slightly curved 

 upwards: seeds quadrate: but somewhat cruciform, being deeply notched 

 at each end and at the hilum, the surface closely sinuate-rugose. Same 

 range as the last, and readily distinguished by its seeds which have 

 something of the outline of a Maltese cross. March June. 



10. L. hirtellus, Greene. Stoutish, depressed, canescently hirsutulous, 

 not at all strigose: leaflets 57, cuneate-oblong or -obovate, obtuse: 

 peduncles stoutish, bracted, surpassing the leaves, 2-flowered: pod ] in. 

 long, subterete, straight, 7 10-seeded; seeds quadrate, notched at the 

 hilum only, faintly rugose and coarsely granulate. The Mt. Diablo Eange 

 near Livermore. 



M--M- Perennials ; flowers capitate-umbellate. 



11. L. leucophaens, Greene. Low; ascending, less than a foot high, 

 internodes short, leaves ample, herbage velvety-pubescent: leaflets 57, 

 obovate, 69 lines long, acute: peduncles equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves; umbel 1-foliolate-bracted, 5 8-flowered: fl. more than % in. 

 long, ochroleucous, becoming red-purple. Dry ridges of the inner Coast 

 and Mt. Diablo Ranges. May. 



12. L. grandiflorns, (Benth.), Greene. Tall, slender with few leaves 

 and long internodes, nearly glabrous: peduncles slender, elongated, 

 small-bracted, 5 8-flowered: fl. nearly 1 in. long, deep yellow, the petals 

 broader than in the last, turning orange. Same range as the last; but 

 less frequent. 



* * # Perennials with true stipules; leaflets never inequilaterally dis- 

 tributed; flowers in bracted umbels; pods long, straight. 



13. L. formosissimns, Greene. Slender, glabrous, the decumbent 

 stems several, 1 ft. long: leaflets 5 7, from broadly obovate to obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, the lowest truncate or retuse; stipules thin, ovate: 

 umbels equalling the leaves, or shorter, the bract 3-foliolate; calyx-teeth 

 unequal, triangular, acute or acuminate, shorter than the campanulate 

 tube: corolla 7 lines long, the wide-spread wings and much shorter keel 

 rose-red, the banner yellow. In moist ground along the seaboard. May. 



14. L. pinnatns, Hook. Sloulish, glabrous, the erect stems 2ft. high: 

 leaflets 5 9, obovate or oblong, acutish: stipules scarious, triangular: 

 peduncles longer than the leaves, 3 7-flowered, naked or with a small 

 scarious 1 3-foliolate bract: calyx- teeth triangular, half as long as the 

 tube: corolla as in the last, but keel and wings white, banner yelloiv. 

 Said to inhabit the seaboard districts from San Francisco northward. 



15. L. Torreyi (Gray), Greene. Habit of the last, but slender, more 

 or less silky-pubescent; leaflets narrower, acute or obtuse: bract of the 



