Tephrosia hispidula (Michx.) Pers.

i o. Cracca híSpidula (Michx.) Kuntze.
Galega hispidula Michx. FT, Bor. Am. 2: 68 (1803).
Tephrosia hispidula Pers. Syn. 2 : 329 (1807).
, Tephrosia gracilis Nutt. Gen. 2:119(1818).
Tephrosia elegans Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 105 (1834).
Cracca hispidula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 174 (1891).
Perennial from a slender, woody base, minutely appressed-
hispid or glabrate. .Stems 1—3 dm* or more long, decumbent or
assurgent, dichotomously branching, straggling, angled; stipules
2-5 mm. long, subulate, sometimes persisting; leaves 3-6 cm.
long, linear-oblong in outline, short-petioled, (5-10 mm.) the
upper Ones often sessile; leaflets 7-13, elliptical, oval-oblong, or
linear-olblong, 8 mm-2' cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, acutish, some-
times obtuse, apicülate, reflexed, glabrous above, appressed hirsute
with whitish hairs and the veins often turning purplish beneath;
peduncles terminal and axillary, ancipital, 5-10 cm. long; flowers
solitary or geminate, scattered at the summit of the peduncle, 10-
12 mm. long; bracts 2-5, mm. long, setaceous; calyx-teeth acute
. as long as the tube; vexillum minutely pubescent; legume about
4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, straightish or slightly falcate, minutely
hispid; seeds 8-12, ovoid or nearly orbicular,,brownish.
Low pine lands, sandy soil, stems ascending, rarely prostrate
or trailing, feaves and peduncles erect, leaflets reflexed, smaller
and more acute than the other species in this section.
Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, westward to Louisiana.
Original localities’: Virginia, Carolina and Georgia.
Type in Herb. Michaux.
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Carroll E. Wood
.Jr.
Examined for
NORTH AMERICAN FLORA
NTRAL PENINSULAR FLORIDA,
VICINITY OF EU3TI8, LAKE COUNTY,
By Geo. V. Nash. May 16*31, 1894.
804. Cracca hispidula (rers.) Kuntze.
LEAVES ERECT. FLOWERS WHITE, TURNING RED AT NIGHT.
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