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3-20 mm. long; rachis villous-hirsute; leaflets 5-15, broadly oblong to oval or obovate, obtuse, 

 mucronate, often reflexed, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, sparingly silky or glabrate above, 

 densely villous or pilose beneath; racemes elongate, lax, opposite the leaves, including the 

 peduncle 1-3 dm. long; bracts 5-10 mm. long, subulate, persistent; flowers 1-3 at each node, 

 mostly near the end of the peduncle; calyx silky-hirsute, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 

 3-4 mm. long; corolla white or purple, 12-15 mm, long; banner strigose without, suborbicular, 

 short-clawed; wings oblanceolate, longer than the keel, pod 3—5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, 

 acute, straight, S-12-seeded; seeds brown. 



Type locality: Carolina. 



Distribution: Sandy pine lands from Delaware and Virginia to Tennessee, Mississippi, and 

 Florida. 



Illustration: Mem. Accad. Bologna 2: pi. 13, f. 2; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 21 IS; ed. 2. /. 

 2522. 



44. Cracca intermedia Small, Bull Torrey Club 21 : 30.3 1894. 



Cracca Smallii Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: M. 1895. 

 Cracca fluridana Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 35. 1895. 

 Tephrosia Smallii B. L. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899. 



A perennial, with a long woody root; stem prostrate to adsurgent, 2-6 dm. long, branched 

 and flexuose, angled above, finely short-pilose, somewhat viscid; leaves 4-10 cm. long; stipules 

 3-5 mm. long, subulate, deciduous or persistent; petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 5-13, elliptic 

 or oblong-obovate, obtuse, rounded or truncate at the apex, apiculate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 5-14 

 mm. wide, glabrous atid yellowish-green above, grayish-stiigose beneath, the veins strong, 

 turning reddish; racemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the peduncle 1-2 dm. long; 

 bracts subulate, 5-7 mm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; calyx strigose-pilose, the tube 

 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate' 3 mm. long; corolla white turning reddish-puiple, about 

 15 mm. long; banner rounded-obovate, strigose on the back; wings obliquely broadly oblanceo- 

 late, with a rather large basal auricle; pod 3-4 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, erect, straight, strigose, 

 6-10-seeded; seeds ovoid, grayish or brownish variegated with black. 



Type locality: Near Jacksonville, Florida. 



Distribution: Pinelands from Georgia to Florida and Louisiana. 



45. Cracca flexuosa (Chapm ) A. Heller, Cat N. Am PI ed. 2. 7. 

 1900. 



Tephrosia hispidula 7 T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 297. 1838. 



Tephrosia flexuvsa Chapm.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 297, as synonym. 1838. 



Tephrosia villosa flexuosa B. I,. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 200. 1899. 



A perennial, from a woody root; stem slender, 2-6 dm. high, flexuose, sparingly hirsute; 

 leaves 6-12 dm. long; stipules subulate, 8-10 mm. long, hirsute, persistent; petiole 1-3 cm. 

 long; rachis hirsute; leaflets 3-15, linear or lance-linear, long-acute, glabrous or puberulent 

 above, hirsute and with stiong reddish veins beneath, the lateral ones spreading or reflexed, 

 1-3 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, the terminal one larger, 1.5-4.5 cm. long; racemes lax, few- 

 flowered, 8-18 cm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; bracts subulate; calyx hirsute, the tube 

 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3.5-4 mm. long; corolla 12 mm. long; banner suborbicular, 

 short-clawed, strigose without; wings obliquely oblanceolate, round at the apex, with an 

 acute basal auricle. 



Type locality: Florida. 



Distribution: Florida and Alabama. 



46. Cracca hispidula (Michx ) Kuntze, Rev C.en 175. 1891. 



Catena hispidula Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 68. 1803. 

 Tephrosia hispidula Pers. Svn. PI. 2: 329. L807. 

 Tephrosia gracilis Nutt. Gen. 2: 119. 1818. 

 Tephrosia elegans Null. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7: 105. 1834. 



A perennial, with a fusiform woody root; stem somewhat ligneous at the base, 1-4 dm. 

 long, decumbent, flexuose, branching, angled, sparingly strigose or glabrate; leaves 3-6 cm. 

 long; stipules 2-5 mm. long, subulate, sometimes persistent; petiole 5-15 cm. long; rachis 



