1899] NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF TEPHROSIA 199 
pubescent or glabrate ; hairs sometimes spreading but usually 
appressed: leaflets 11 to 17, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 
thinnish, usually deflexed, appressed-pubescent or glabrous 
above, slightly paler appressed-villous beneath, usually rounded 
md mucronulate at the apex: petals at. maturity purple, 
sometimes 1.6™ in length: pods 8-10 seeded, covered with short 
appressed or more often spreading hairs.—Pursh, Fl. 2: 489; 
Ell. Sk. 2:245; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 296, excl. vars.; Chapm. 
fl 93. T. gracilis Nutt. Gen. 2: I1g. 1818. TZ. elegans Nutt. 
Jour. Acad. Philad. 7: 105. Galega hispidula Michx. Fl. 2:68. 
Cracca hispidula Kuntze, l. c. 175 ; Vail, l. c. 33—-Sandy barrens, 
Virginia and N. Carolina, Curtis, to Florida and Louisiana, Hale. 
=== Stems rather stout, covered with a copious coarse tawny spreading 
pubescence; leaflets sparingly villous along the midnerve above or 
*ppressed-pubescent over the entire upper surface. 
T. vitLosa Pers. l.c.% Stem 3 to 9 long, sprawling, tawny- 
site: leaflets 3 to 17, elliptic or obovate, rounded and apicu- 
at the end, villous beneath, more or less appressed-pubes- 
» sotapla upper surface, about 2.5°™ long, a third to half 
ancpital - one tawny-pubescent: peduncles long, somewhat 
talyx Likes e | ted few-flowered raceme surpassing the leaves: 
(at least j with long filiform tips: petals pale or more often 
age) purple red.— 7. spicata Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 296; 
bm. Fl. 95; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 133. 7. 
inn, 
—” originally described by Michaux (1803) as Galega villosa, with 
is plant = Floridam.” There is absolutely no evidence that Mic aux 
2S hed neat of the Asiatic G. villosa L. The name 7% ern 
American eg Persoon in his Synopsis (1807) and is there used exclusively 
Poted 
4 C nam he plant of the Old World, although possessing an 
: Sod that ae ‘a not brought under Tephrosia until later and, it is believed, 
ve receive another Specific designation. 
