274 PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



of which cannot be characterized even as varieties. The bracts are 

 sometimes reduced to a single leaflet, or, more rarely, are wanting. 

 In specimens from Walla- Walla the lower leaves are 4-5-foliolate. 



6. HOSACKIA DECUMBENS, Bentll. 



Hab. Puget Sound and interior of Washington Territory ; rather 

 common. 



7. Hosackia tomentosa, Hook. & Am. 



Hab. Bay of San Francisco, California. — The specimens are without 

 flowers ; but there can be little doubt of the species. 



8. Hosackia micrantha, Torr. & Gray. 



Hab. Near San Francisco, California. — Leaflets 3 to 5, only 2 to 4 

 lines long. Umbels all on very short peduncles, 3-7-flowered; the 

 flowers less than one-third of an inch long. Teeth of the calyx 

 subulate, about as long as the tube, and a little shorter than the 

 corolla. Legumes hairy, about 2-seeded. Seeds oblong-cylindrical, 

 nearly black. 



9. Hosackia glabra. 



Syrmatium glabrwn, Vogel in L'innsea, 10, p. 591. 

 Hosackia scoparia, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1, p. 325. 



Hab. Near San Francisco, California: common in sandy soils. — 

 This plant has the habit of Genista. The stem throws off weak 

 straggling branches, which bear a profusion of yellow flowers. 

 Legumes pubescent with appressed hairs, 2-seeded. 



10. Hosackia juncea, Benih. 



Hab. Bay of San Francisco, California. This agrees w r ith speci- 

 mens received from Mr. Nuttall, except in the smaller and somewhat 

 narrower leaves. 



