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HosACKiA Heermanni, Dur. & Hilg. Grayh 8yn., I. c, p. 348. Peren- 

 nial, finely villous-pubescent, diffusely much branched, very leafy; leaflets 

 3-5, obovate, roundish, or oval-oblong, 2-5" long, upon a short petiole; 

 umbels numerous, 4-9-flowered, with a simple bract, the peduncle often 

 equaling the leaf; teeth of the loosely villous calyx considerably shorter than 

 the campanulate tube; flowers 2/ long, yellow turning purphsh, the keel 

 with a broad and very obtuse summit ; legume pubescent, the body but little 

 exceeding the calyx, with a subulate incurved beak, 1-^2-seeded. Southern 

 Cahfornia, and also collected by Dr. Anderson near Carson City, Nevada. 



HoSACKiA PuESHiANA, Beuth. Gi-mjs 8yn., p. 352. Annual, erect or 

 ascending, much branched, pubescent or softly villous, sometimes glabrous ; 

 leaves nearly sessile ; leaflets 3, (or 1, rarely 4,) varying from ovate to lance- 

 olate, rather acute; stipules minute, blackish; peduncles exceeding the 

 leaves, 1-flowered ; bract simple ; corolla scarcely longer than the deeply, cleft 

 calyx; keel attenuated upward, falcate; vexillum on a short claw approxi-, 

 mating the others ; legume linear, straight, not attenuate above. — Stem 6-2° 

 high ; branches usually distichous.. In North Carolina, and from Arkansas to 

 the Upper Missouri and westward, in Oregon, California and Sonora. Found 

 on the banks of the Truckee River, Nevada ; July, August. (249.) 



HoSACKiA SUBPINNATA, T. & Gr. Chay's Syn., I. c, p. 352. Annual, pro- 

 cumbent, (3-6' high,) branched from the base, villous-hirsute or glabrate ; 

 leaflets 3-5, obovate, obtuse, ^' long; lower ones scattered on the dilated rachis; 

 stipules minute ; flowers small, yellow, solitary, subsessile, ebracteate ; calyx- 

 teeth about equaling the tube, shorter than the corolla ; keel rostrate, falcate ; 

 the short claw of the banner not distant from the others; legume hnear-oblong, 

 straight, subcompressed, not rostrately attenuate, 4^7-seeded, much exceed- 

 ing the calyx. California and Oregon. Collected by Stretch in Western 

 Nevada. 



PsoKALEA LANCEOLATA, Pursh. Nearly glabrous, with a few scattered 

 hairs and numerous dark-colored glands; erect, 1° high, much branched; leaves 

 palmately 3-foHolate ; leaflets (i-1' long) linear-lanceolate or cuneate-obovate, 

 acute or obtuse, or the lower retuse, mucronate, shortly petiolulate ; pedun- 

 cles longer than the leaves ; racemes short, 6-15-flowered; calyx-teeth minute, 

 obtuse, hairy ; corolla 3" long, light blue ; legume globose, hirsute. — From 

 the Platte to the Saskatchewan and west to the Eocky Mountains ; Oregon, 

 (Douglas ;) Northern Arizona, (Ives.) Found at the foot of the Pah-Ute 



