PEA FAMILY. 



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spike-like raceme, to 2 in. long; peduncle longer than raceme; 

 corolla 5 to 6 lines long; pods crowded, retrorsely imbricated, ovate, 

 narrowed at apex into the persistent and prominent style, somewhat 

 flattened laterally and margined by the prominent sutures, 1 -celled, 

 the wall thin and reticulated; body of pod 3 to 4 lines long; seeds 

 1 to 3. 



Salt marshes or about springy places in open canons in Marin Co. 

 near the sea: Bolinas Bay, Bolander, 1868; Miss M. E. Parsons, 1890; 

 Drake's Bay, Jepson, 1900; Point Keyes. June. 



11. A. Clevelandi Greene. Herbage yellowish green and nearly 

 glabrous; stems slender, erect, 2 to 3 ft. high; leaflets 15 to 21, 8 to 7 

 lines long, narrowly oblong, broadest below the middle; peduncles 

 very long, much exceeding the leaves, bearing a loose spike-like 

 raceme 4 to 6 in. long; corolla white; pod coriaceous, oblong, acute, 

 finely nerved on the sides, 2J lines long, deflexed, 2-celled. 



Local in the hilly region between the Mayaeamas and inner Coast 

 Kanges: Indian Valley, Lake Co., Daniel Cleveland, 1882; Butt - 

 Canon, northern Napa Co., Jepson, 1897. June- July. 



5. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Liquorice. 



Perennial herbs with glandular-viscid herbage, odd-pinnate leaves 

 and minute stipules. Flowers yellowish white, in axillary peduncled 

 spikes. Calyx 5-cleft, with the 2 upper lobes shorter or partly united. 

 Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous, the alternate anthers smaller. 

 Ovary 2 to many-ovuled; style short and rigid, curved at the tip. 

 Pod short, flattened, prickly, few-seeded, indehiscent. (Greek 

 glukus, sweet, and rhiza, root.) 



1. G. lepidota Nutt. var. glutinosa Wats. More or less viseid- 

 puberulent, or the peduncles with spreading glandular hairs; stems 

 erect. 2 ft. high, sometimes scurfy or with minute scales; leaflets 11 

 to 15, oblong- to ovate-lanceolate, 1 to \\ in. long; stipules persistent; 

 spikes broadly oblong, exceeding 1 in., the peduncles shorter, or more 

 commonly longer and as much as 2J in. long; flowers yellowish white; 

 calyx very glandular; pod oblong, \ in. long, reddish-brown, bur- 

 like, beset with hooked prickles, 2 to 6-seeded. 



Kich soil of low or moist lands in the valleys or on the plains: 

 Solano and Sonoma Cos. to Alameda Co. and southward to Southern 

 California. June. 



6. AMORPHA L. 



Deciduous shrubs with pellucid-glandular heavy-scented herbage. 

 Leaves odd-pinnate, with caducous stipules and stipels. Flowers 

 small, violet or purple, in long and narrow terminal spikes, which 

 are either solitary or clustered. Calyx obconic, 5-toothed, persistent. 

 Petals wanting except the banner, this erect, concave, unguiculate. 

 Stamens 10, monadelphous at the very base, otherwise distinct. Pod 

 short, but exceeding the calyx, 1 or 2-seeded, tardily dehiscent. 

 (Greek amorphos, deformed, alluding to the corolla.) 



1. A. hispidula Greene. Four to 7 ft. high; leaflets 11 to 27, 



