138 LEGUMINOSA-:. trifolium. 



LOTUS. 



T. fncatuiii Lindl. 1. c. t. 1883. Usually stout and fistulous, the de- 

 cumbent branches 1-2 feet long: herbage light green, glabrous and some- 

 what succulent: stipules large, membranaceous nearly or quite entire : 

 leaflets 6-1 8 lines long, broadlv obovate, obtuse or retuse, dentate or spinu- 

 lose-denticulate ; peduncles stout, far exceeding the leaves ; bracts of the 

 involucreovate-lanceotete, acuminate, scarious-margined, connate at base; 

 heads hemispherical, 1-2 inches broad: calyx thin^ campanulate, the 

 short teeth entire, unequal : corolla 6-12 lines long, ochroleucous, fading 

 with a red tinge : pods stipitate, 3-8-seeded : seeds roundish, nearly a line 

 broad, minutely granulate. Along the coast, Oregon and California. 



T. depauperatnm Desv. Jourri. Bot. iv, 69, t. 32. Smooth, low and 

 slender, decumbent or ascending : stipules small, lanceolate, acnminate, 

 entire ; leaflets obcordate to linear, obtuse, 6 lines long or less : heads 3-10- 

 flowered ; involucre reduced to a very smnll toothed or truncate, often 

 minute and scarious ring : calyx short, the narrowly subulate teeth but 

 little longer than the tube ; upper petal much inflated and enclosing the 

 others, pods l-2-8eeded, seeds little broader than long, rather angular, 

 tuberoulate-rugose. In wet places top of Table Rock, iSouthern Oregon to 

 California and South America. 



Tribe 4. Lotece B. is' H. Gen. 442 Herbs rarely shrubby, 

 with one to many-foliolate leaves, entire leaflets , foliaceous. scarious or 

 gland-like sHpules, and capitate, umbellate or solitary inflorescence. 

 Petals jree from the stamens. Stamens 10, diadelphous. Pod con- 

 tinuous, one-celled but often with spongy partitions between the seeds. 



8 LOTUS Tourn. 

 HOSACKIA Benth. and American authors. 



Herbaceous or suffrutescent ]ilants with jjinnately one to sev- 

 eral -foliolate leaves with gland-like, rarel\' scarious or foliaceous, 

 stipules and one to several-flpwei:ed axillary peduncles, the flower 

 often subtended by a 1-5-foliolate bract. Calyx 5-toothed or 

 -cleft, the teeth nearly equal, usually longer than the tube. 

 Petals free from the stamens, nearly equal, the upper one ovate 

 or roundish, lateral ones obovate or oblong, keel somewhat in- 

 curved, obtuse or acutely beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; the 

 alternate filaments dilated or thickened under the anthers. Pods 

 linear, compressed or terete, straight or arcuate, sessile, dehis- 

 cent or indehiscent, 1-several-seeded, with spongy partitions be- 

 tween the seeds. Seeds variously rounded or elongated, some- 

 times quadrate, smooth, tuberculate or rugose. 



§ 1 AcMisPON Raf.. New Fl. 53, as genus. Annuals with 1-5- 

 foliolate nearly sessile leaves M'ith small gland-like stipules and 

 small flowers on axillary peduncles. Petals but little exceeding 

 the calyx the claws equally approximate to each other, keel nar- 

 rowed above into a rather short, acute, ineurxed beak, equalling 

 or exceeding the wings : pods linear, straight or nearly so, some- 

 what compressed, readily dehiscent, several-seeded. 



L. Ainericanus Bisch. Hort. Heidelb. Hosackia Purshiana Benth. 

 More or less villous or glabrous: stems erect or assurgent, 6-18 inches 

 high, simple to diffusely branched : leaves nearly sessile or short-petioled ; 

 leaflets ovate to lanceolate or oblong, 3-9<lineS'long5often only the terminal 

 one pi*esent, the others when present scattered on a short slightly dilated 



