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PSORALEA MACROSTACHYA DC. Prodr. 2: 220. 1825. 



No. 7926, collected May 31, on the banks of the Sacramento 

 near Middle Creek Station, Shasta county, growing in damp 

 places, the stems five or six feet high. There is little of the 

 black pubescence which is present in the inflorescence of some 

 specimens from other places, and the leaflets are comparatively 

 narrow. 



Glycyrrhiza glutinosa Nutt. T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 298. 

 1838. 

 Glycy7'-rhiza lepidota var. glutinosa S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 

 144. 1876. 



No. 7958, collected June 3, on the banks of the Sacramento 

 about a mile above Redding, Shasta county, growing in sand, 

 and is very abundant at this place, many plants being connected 

 by a system of creeping rootstocks. 



Vicia pumila 



Perennial: stems short, 2-3 dm. long, somewhat ascending 

 or decumbent, sparingly branched, more or less 4-angled, spar- 

 ingly pubescent with short hairs: stipules semisagittate, the 

 largest 7 mm. long, the base 3 mm, across, cut into several lan- 

 ceolate teeth: leaves 6 cm. long or less, the peduncles about 5 

 mm. long: leaflets 6-14, elliptical-oblong, maximum size 13 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. wide, the apex truncate, shortly apiculate, some- 

 what silky pubescent on both sides with short appressed hairs, 

 the under side a little paler than the upper, veins rather promi- 

 nent and regularly pinnate; petiolules very short, barely i mm. 

 long; the slender tendrils only 5 or 6 mm. long, 2 or 3 branched, 

 coiled: flowers scattered, light violet-purple, 1.5 cm. long on 

 peduncles of varying length, the longest about 2 cm.: calyx 7 

 mm. long, 3 or 4 mm. across, the three upper lobes linear-lan- 

 ceolate, the long middle lobe less than 3 mm. long, i mm. wide 

 at base, the two lower ones triangular-lanceolate, a little over 

 I mm. long and as wide: banner i.s cm. long obovate when 



