PEA FAMILY. 



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than the leaves, 2 to 6 in. long; umbels 7 to 9-flovvered, the 1-folio- 

 late bract 3 to 6 lines long; flowers nearly \ in. long; claws of the 

 petals exscrted from the calyx (as also in the next); keel and wings 

 white; keel obliquely incurved at apex; calyx-tube a line long, the 

 subulate teeth nearly as long; pod slender, 1 to \\ in. long. — 

 (Hosackia Torreyi Gray.) 



Along streamlets and in low moist meadows of the Coast Ranges: 

 Howell Mountain. Also in the Sierras. June. 



4. L. formosissimus Greene. Herbage glabrous and light 

 green; stems several from a soft and much thickened taproot, 

 decumbent, 5 to 12 in. long; leaflets 5 to 7 (or 8), the lower deltoid- 

 obovate and truncate or retuse, the upper obovate-oblong, 4 to 6 lines 

 long; peduncles 1 to \\ in. long; umbels 4 to 6-flowered, the bract 

 3-foliolate and petioled; flowers exceeding \ in. long; calyx 3 lines 

 long, its teeth triangular-acuminate, \ as long as the tube; banner 

 yellow, with an obvious upturned thickened process at base of blade 

 on each side; wings pink-tinged or rose-red; keel yellow, purple- 

 tipped; pod straight, \\ in. long, scarcely more than 1 line broad. — 

 (Hosackia gracilis Benth.) 



Common in moist ground along the seaboard: Monterey, Brewer; 

 Lake San Andreas, Davy; Crystal Springs, Eastwood; Bolinas, Chen- 

 nut and Drew; Mendocino, Bolander. A beautiful species, flowering 

 in Apr. First collected by Menzies in California. 



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 rachis, 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; flowers 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 with a whitish or callous line. — 

 (Hosackia grandiflora Benth.) 



Coast Range ridges from Mendocino Co. to Santa Monica. First 

 collected by Douglas. 



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

 velvety herbage, the stems from a woody subterranean base, diffusely 

 spreading or ascending, 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-lanceolate, 

 nearly as long as the tube; pod 1 in. long and 1 line wide. 



High dry ridges: Mt. Diablo Range acc. to Greene; inner North 

 Coast Range (Vaca Mountains), Jepsou. June. Seemingly of no 

 more than varietal value. 



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

 ascending or prostrate, somewhat succulent, commonly much branched, 



