mucronate, silky-villous beneath, minutely silky-pubescent above; raceme
oblong, sessile; calyx very villous, the segments acuminate-cuspidate, about
the length of the tube.—Pers. syn. 2. p. 329 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 245; Nutt. !
gen. 2. p. 119; DC. 1. c .; Hook. Jl, Bor.-Am. 1. p. 139. Galega Virgini-
ana, Lin n .; Michx.! fl. 2. p. 67. 6 6
/?■ glabra (Nutt, mss.): 14leaflets nearly glabrous when old.1*
y. holosericea: stem and raceme densely villous; leaflets very silky-pubescent
on both sides, often sublanceolate and rather acute.—T. holosericea,
Nutt, m jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 105.
Dry sandy soil, Canada! to Florida! and the western part of Louisiana!
0. Georgia, Nuttall. y. Arkansas, Nuttall, Dr. Pitcher! Illinois, Mr.
Buckley! June-July. Stems simple, 1-2 feet high, growing in patches,
clothed with a whitish villous pubescence. Flowers large. Corolla dull yellow
tinged with purple: keel-petals very broad. Legumes 2 inches long,
somewhat falcate^ villous.—Mr. .Nuttall remarks that the wings are calcaiate
at the base as in Indigofera; but we do not observe this.—Our Arkansan
specimen of what is doubtless T . holosericea, Nutt, has a somewhat different
aspect, and the leaflets are mostly inclining to lanceolate; but the specimen
from Illinois manifestly connects it with the ordinary form of T. Virginiana.
§ 2. Peduncles (fere) terminal or opposite to the leaves.
2. T. onobrychoides (Nutt.): pilose with somewhat rusty hairs; stem
mostly erect and simple; leaves subsessile; leaflets 8-12 pairs, cuneate-ob-
long, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, silky-hirsute beneath with brownish
hairs, at length smoothish above; raceme very long, many-flowered (commonly
only terminal) ; teeth of the calyx triangular, shorter than the tube,
the lowest subulate and longer than the others; legumes puberulent.—Nutt!
m jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 104.
Plains of Arkansas, Nuttall! Dr. Pitcher! Red River, Louisiana, Dr.
Hale ! Stem 2—3 feet high, stout. Leaflets often 1J inch or more in length,
and half an inch wide. Stipules subulate, caducous. Raceme 1-2 feet
long, bearing flowers for the greater part of its length: pedicels 2-4 together
on alternate nodes, very short. Calyx villous-hispid. Corolla red mixed
with white.-^yery nearly allied to the succeeding species. The pubescence
is sometimes rusty-colored, and sometimes whitish.
3. T. spicata: pilose-hispid with rusty hairs ; stem decumbent or nearly
erect, scarcely branched; leaves subsessile,; leaflets 4-7 pairs,oval or oblong
often slightly cuneate at the base, obtuse or slightly emarginate, mucronate4 5
silky-villous beneath, minutely silky-pubescent above; peduncles long, few-
flowered ; segments of the calyx lanceolate-subulate, longer than the ’tube ;
legumes minutely hispid.—T. paucifolia, Nutt. ! gen. 2. p. 119 ; Ell. sk. 2.
p. 246; DC. 1. c. T. hispida, DC. l.c.? Galega spicata, Walt. Car. p.
188. G. vfllosa, Michx.! Jl. 2. p. 67. G. paucifolia, Curtis, in Bost. jour
not. hist. 1. p. 121. ’ J "■
Dry soils, Virginia! to Florida! west to the Mississippi! June-A ug .-
Stern about 2 feet long, rather slender. Leaves often few and remote, 4-5
or often more, on each stem: leaflets an inch long. Stipules lanceolate, rather
persistent. Peduncles 8-12 or 18 inches long, 3-6- (rarely 8 or 10-) flowered:
pedicels solitary or in pairs, shorter than the flowers. Calyx hispid; the
lower segment a little longest. Corolla purplish-red. Legume 2 inches
long, slightly falcate.—A very common plant in the Southern States : and
doubtless the Galega spicata of Walter.
4. T. hispidula (Pursh) : stem erect or procumbent, slender, dichotomous,
slightly pubescent; leaflets 5-9 pairs, elliptical-oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous
above, hirsute beneath, usually more or less acute, often retuse, conspicuously
mucronate ; the lowest pair rather distant from the base of the
petiole; racemes as long as the leaves, at length elongated, few-flowered;
peduncles usually ancipital; teeth of the calyx triangular-lanceolate, short;
legume nearly straight or slightly falcate, minutely hispid.—Pursh, n. 2. p.
489; Ell. sk.2. p. 245; DC. prodr. 2. p. 250. Galega hispidula, Michx. !
Jl. 2. p. 68 ; Curtis ! in Bost. jour. nat. hist. 1. p. 121. T. gracilis, Nutt,
gen. 2. p. 119; DC. 1. c.
0. hirsute with short spreading hairs ; leaflets large, cuneate-oblong; legumes
pubescent and whitish.—Galega ambigua, Curtis ! 1. c.
y . erect, very hirsute with rusty spreading hairs, scarcely branched; leaflets
6-8 pairs, linear or linear-lanceolate, reflexed; the terminal one much the
longest, with a strong marginal vein; peduncle much longer than the leaves.
—T. flexuosa, Chapman! mss.
4. erect, nearly glabrous; leaflets 2-3 pairs, linear-lanceolote, slightly hirsute
beneath, the terminal one much the longest; marginal veins very distinct.
Dry sandy soils, Virginia to Florida! and Alabama! p. North Carolina,
Curtis! y. Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman! S. Alabama, J )r. Gates!
May-August.—Stem 1-2 feet long, usually dichotomous. Leaflets 1-1J
inch long (the terminal one in y. & <5. nearly 2 inches). Stipules linear-subulate.
Peduncles 3-4-flowered; 2 of the flowers usually at the summit, and
1- 2 remote. Flowers about half an inch long, reddish-purple. Calyx i the
length of the corolla. Vexillum nearly orbicular. Upper stamen quite free
to the base. Legume 6-12-seeded. Seeds roundish-reniform, dark brown.—
T. elegans, Nutt.* seems to be a form of this difficult and polymorphous
species.
5. T. chrysophylla (Pursh): prostrate, dichotomous, pubescent; leaves
nearly sessile; leaflets 2-3 (rarely 4) pairs, cuneate-obovate, very obtuse,
glabrous above, silky-hirsute beneath ; peduncles longer than the leaves, usually
3-flowered; legume minutely hispid.—Pursh, Jl. 2. p. 489; Ell. sk. 2.
p. 247. T. prostrata, Nutt. gen. 2. p. 120 (excl. syn. Michx.) ; DC. prodr.
2. p. 250.
Sandy soils, near Savannah, Nuttall, Mr. Forbes ! Milledgeville, Georgia,
Dr. Boykin! Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman! May-Aug.—Stems
dichotomous, about a foot long ; pubescence spreading or appressed. Leaves
2 - 3 inches long; leaflets 6-10 lines long, coriaceous ; the lowest pair close to
the base of the petiole. Peduncle a little compressed. Flowers as in the
preceding species. Legume 8-10-seeded.—The whole plant has a yellowish
hue. T. chrysophylla may be best distinguished from the preceding species
by its nearly sessile leaves and broader and fewer leaflets; but even these
characters appear to be not entirely constant; and we have some forms of
which we are in doubt to which species they should be referred.
23. GLYCYRRHIZA. Tourn.; Linn. ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 247.
Calyx without bracteoles, tubular, gibbous at the base, 5-cleft, bilabiate;
the 2 upper segments partly united. Vexillum ovate-lanceolate, straight:
keel-petals and wings straight, acute, the former united above. Stamens
diadelphous. Style filiform. Legume ovate or oblong, compressed, often
* 71 elegans (Nutt.) : decumbent; slightly pubescent; leaves subsessile ; leaflets
(15-17) oblong-elliptical, rather acute ; peduncles filiform, few-flowered, longer than
the leaf; segments of the calyx acuminate. Nutt, in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 165._
Alabama.—Peduncles produciug a few reddish-purple flowers toward their extremity.
Legume villous.