l > :;i > LEGUMINOSAE. 



long. — (Hosackia tomcntosa and H. hecrmannii Brew. & Wats., Bot. Cal. as to 

 S.i 11 Francisco Co.) * 



San Francisco and southward along the coast. Apr.-Sept. Stems pilose, in 

 the next comparatively glabrous. 



15. L. glaber (Vogel) Greene. Deer-weed. Stems woody at base, tufted 

 and reed-like on account of the sparse foliage, 2 to 5 ft. high, erect with 

 straggling branches or sometimes decumbent; herbage very nearly glabrous, the 

 calyx and young leaves often somewhat appressed-silky ; leaflets mostly 3, 

 on young shoots 4 to 6, oblong to linear-oblong, 3 to 6 lines long, obtuse or 

 acute; umbels numerous, sessile; flowers yellow, turning red, 3 or 4 lines long; 

 calyx about 2 lines long, its teeth subulate, erect, about % as long as the tube. 



I Hosackia glabra Torr.) 



Common everywhere in the hill country of the Coast Eanges and southward 

 to Southern California. Esteemed as a bee-plant in the southern part of the 

 State and also called Deer-clover, Wild Broom and Wild Alfalfa. While 

 abundant in most seasons and blooming from June to Sept., in some years it 

 ■ lies out as the plants are said to live only two or three years. 



16. L. benthamii Greene. Similar to the preceding; umbels on peduncles 

 equaling or exceeding the leaves, usually 1 to 3-foliolate bracted; calyx-teeth 

 subulate, sometimes recurved.— (Hosackia eytisoid.es Benth.) 



San Francisco and southward to Monterey and the Salinas Valley. 



17. L. biolettii Greene. Herbage ashy or whitish with short appressed 

 hairs; branches slender, wiry and prostrate, 1 to 2 ft. long; leaflets usually 4, 

 euneate-obovate, obtuse, 2 to 5 lines long; peduncles scarcely surpassing the 

 Leaves, the umbel 6 to 10-flowered and 1-foliolate bracted; calyx a line long 

 or less, the triangular blunt teeth erect; corolla 2 lines long, yellow, changing 

 to dark red; pod strongly arcuate, slender beaked. 



Dry ridges, Marin Co. 



9. AMORPHA L. 



Deciduous shrubs with pellucid-glandular heavy-scented herbage. Leaves 

 odd-pinnate, with caducous stipules and stipels. Flowers small, violet or pur- 

 ple, in long and narrow terminal spikes. Calyx obconic, 5-toothed, persistent. 

 Petals wanting except the banner, this erect, concave, clawed. Stamens 10, 

 monadelphous at the very base, otherwise distinct. Pod short, but exceeding 

 the calyx, 1 or 2-seeded, tardily dehiscent. (Greek amorphos, deformed, al- 

 luding to the corolla.) 



1. A. californica Nutt. Four to 7 ft. high; leaflets 11 to 27, oblong-ellip- 

 tical, mucronulate at the retuse apex, shortly petioled, 7 to 12 lines long; 

 rachis pubescent and with prickle-like glands scattered among the sessile ones, 

 often becoming glabrous late in the season; stipules and bracts lanceolate, 

 deciduous; racemes - to 4 in. Long; dowers about 3 lines long; calyx with short 

 teeth; banner dark purple, truncatish or notched; stamens longer than banner; 

 pod 2 J ._. lines Long, with many low circular glands which are depressed or 

 Bomewhal excavated in the center. — (A. hispidula Greene.) 



Wooded canons: Pope and Napa valleys to Mt. Tamalpais and southward 

 near the coasl to Southern California. May. 



10. PSORALEA L. 



Ours perennial herbs. Eerbage heavy-scented, punctate with dark dots. 

 Leaves 3 or 5-foliolate; stipules tree from the petiole. Flowers purple or 



whitish in spikes or racemes. Calyx 5-cleft, its lobes nearly equal. Keel 



