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side; wings and keel pink-tinged, the keel yellow below ; pod straight, l\i in. 

 long, scarcely more than 1 line broad. — (Hosaekia gracilis Benth.) 



Common in moist ground along the seaboard: Monterey; Santa Cruz Mt8.; 

 Bolinas; Sonoma Co.; Mendocino. A beautiful species, flowering in Apr. 

 Wings and keel turn blue in drying. 



5. L. grandiflorus (Benth.) Greene. Tall and stout, 1 to 3 ft. high, 

 appressed silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous; Leaflets 5 to 7 or 8, on an 

 elongated raehis, obovate to oblanceolate, acute, 6 to 9 lines long; peduncles 

 elongated, bearing a 3 to 8-flowered umbel commonly subtended by a 1-foliolate 

 bract; (lowers nearly sessile, bright yellow, turning orange, 7 to 9 lines long; 

 banner 4 lines broad; calyx-teeth broadly subulate; pod slender, 1% in. long, 

 reddish brown, the margin of the valves vrith a whitish or callous line. — 

 (Hosaekia grandiflora Benth.) 



Coast Range ridges from Mendocino Co. to Santa Monica. 



6. L. leucophaeus Greene. Perennial, with pubescent or even velvety 

 herbage, the stems from a woody subterranean base, diffusely spreading or as- 

 cending, 10 to 15 or 18 in. long; internodes short; leaves ample; leaflets mostly 

 6, elliptic and obtuse or for the most part obovate and shortly acute, 6 to 8 

 lines Long; peduncles equaling or exceeding the leaves; umbel with a 1-foliolate 

 bract, 5 to 8-flowered; flowers exceeding % in., yellowish white, changing to 

 red -purple ; banner 3 lines broad; calyx 4 lines long, its lobes subulate-lanceo- 

 late, nearly as Long as the tube; pod I in. long and 1 line wide. 



High dry ridges: Mt. Diablo Range; Vaca Mts. June. Dubious species. 



7. L. salsuginosus Greene. Minutely strigose-pubescent ; stems ascending 

 or prostrate, somewhat succulent, commonly much branched, 9 to 16 or often 

 24 in. Long; leaflets 5 to mostly 7, elliptic- or more commonly oblong-obovate, 

 3 to 7 lines long; peduncles 1 in. long or less, 2 to 5-flowered, bractless or with 

 a conspicuous 1 to 3-foliolate bract; corolla yellow, 3 lines long, the banner 

 sometimes shorter than the wings and obliquely obtuse keel; calyx-tube V 2 to % 

 as long as the linear lanceolate teeth; pod 1 in. long, 10 to 12-seeded ; seeds 

 obliquely oval, smooth. — (Hosaekia maritima Benth.) 



Alkaline tints: San dose; Santa Cruz; Monterey and southward to Southern 

 ( ; 1 1 i fornia. Mai. May. 



8. L. strigosus (Nutt.) Greene. Appressed-hirsutulous ; stems branched at 

 the base and decumbent or prostrate; leaflets 7 to 10, oblong or narrowly 

 obovate, 2 to 5 lines Long; early peduncles shelter than the leaves, 1-flowered, 

 loan less; later peduncles often longer than the leaves, frequently 2-flowered 

 and bracted; flowers 3 or 4 lines long, yellow; calyx C, as long, its teeth 

 triangular-acuminate; pod 1 in. long or somewhat less, 9 to 14-seeded; seeds 

 quadrate, deeply notched al the hilum, minutely granulate, y 2 line long. — 

 (Hosaekia rubella Xutt.) 



A lame. la. San Krancisco ami southward. Apr.-Nov. Var. NUDIFLORUS 

 Jepson, with pods l'.j times as broad and sightly curved upward at apex 

 and flowers 5 lines Long, occurs in the Ml. Hiablo Range. 



9. L. micranthus Benth. Annual, glabrous and glaucous, the stems very 

 slender, 1 or 2 from the base and ored, or rarely with many diffuse or ascend- 

 in- branches, I to 7 in. high; leaflets 3 to 5, mostly 4 with one leaflet terminal 



and two on one side of the raehis ami one on the other, obovate to oblong;, 

 2 to 5 lines Long; peduncles filiform, shorter than the leaves, 1 flowered, bracted, 



1 to 6 lines Long, or ill fruit as much as 1 in. lone-; flowers minute, pale salmon. 



turning red; corolla twice as Long as the calyx, the teeth of the latter commonly 



