140 LEGUMINOSJE. loti'S. 



remote from the others ; kpel broad and obtuse above. The ma- 

 ture calyx deciduous with' the indehiscent, usually small, arcuate, 

 slender-pointed, few-seeded pod: 



L. Douglasii Greene 1. c. 149. HusacMa decumhens Benth. Villous- 

 pubescent and somewhat tomentose : steins slender, ascending or diffusely 

 procumbent, 6-18 inches long, from a thick very tough perennial root: 

 leaflets 5-7, cuneate-obovate to oblong, mostly acute, S^S^lines. long.: um- 

 bels of yellow flowers on short peduncles, subtended by a l-.S-foliolate' 

 bract : calyx silky, its slender teeth often as long as the campanulate tube: 

 pods pubescent, falcate, the beak longer than the seed-bearing portion, 

 about 2-seeded . Open plains and hillsides, Brit. Columbia to California. 



g 4. HosACKiA Benth. Bot. Reg. .xv, under t. 1257, as 

 Genus. Perennial herbs with pinnate leaves, true stipules, the 

 leaflets evenly distributed upon a linear rachis. Peduncles um- 

 bellately many-flowered, the flowers usually subtended by a 

 bract. Claw of the upper jDetal remote from the others, the lat- 

 eral ones partially cohering with the broad and mostly very ob- 

 tuse keel and spreading away from the claw of the upper one. 

 Pods acute above, linear, sti-aight or nearly so, -V^fl seeded, gla- 

 brous, terete or somewhat compressed, tardily dehiscent. 



* Glabrous throughout or becoming so : bracts petioled or wanting : 

 stipules scarious : leaflets 5-15: flowers rather large. 



L. crassifolius Greene 1. c. 147. Hosackia crassifolia Benth. Stout, 

 erect, often 2-4 feet high, widely branching: leaflets 9-15, minutely pubes- 

 cent or somewhat villous but soon glabrate, thickish obovate or oblong, 

 usually obtuse and mucronulate, 6-12 lines long, peduncles nearly equal- 

 ling the leaves, usually many-flowered : bract usually some distance be- 

 low the umbel, 1-3-foliolate: flowers on slender pedicels, 2-4 lines long : 

 tube of the calyx carhpanulate, 3 lines long, truncate, the very short tri- 

 angular teeth distant frona each other; petaLi much longer than' the calyx, 

 dull dark purple : pods thick, about 2 inches long by 3 lines in diameter: 

 seeds nearlj orbicular. In rich alh/vial soil, foothills of the Cascade 

 Moantains," Washington to California. 



L. pinnatus Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2913. ILisactia hicolor Dmigl. Glab- 

 rous throughout : stems numerous, from a thick perennial root, erect, 

 branched above, 1-2 feet high: leaflets 5-9 obovate or oblong, obtuse or 

 acutish, <')-12 lines long; stipules rather large, triangular, acuminate: ped- 

 uncles mostly longer than the leaves, 3-10-flowered, naked, or sometimes 

 with a small scarious or l-;!-foliolate bract at the summit: flowers nearly 

 sessile, 8-10 lines long; calyx campanulate, oblique, its triangular teeth 

 but half as long as the tube ; upper petal bright yellow, the lateral ones 

 usually white ; i^ods nearly terete, 2 inches long, tint little more than' a 

 line in diameter: seeds numerous, oblong. In springs and ditches, Brit. 

 Columbia to California. 



L. forniosissiiiius Greene 1. c. ITttsackia gracilix Benth. Low and 

 slender, the weak stems 0-12 inches long: leaflets 5-7, broadly obovate to 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, the lowest truncate or retuse ; stipules thin, ovate: 

 pedicels equalling or shorter than the leaves; bract petioled, 1-3-foliolate: 

 teeth of the calyx unequal, triangular, acute or acuminate, shorter than 

 the campanulate tube ; petals 7 lines long, the upper one yellow, the wide 

 spreading lateral ones and much shorter keel rose-color: pods short. In 

 moist ground along the seaboard, Oregon to California. 



* * Pubescent or pulierulent; braots nearly sessile, at the top of 

 the peduncles. 



