Tephrosia spicata (Walter) Torr. & A.Gray

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Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze.
Galega spicata, Walt: FI. Car. 188 (1788).
Galega villosa Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2: 67 (1803).
Tephrosia hillosa Pers. Syn. 2: 329 (1807).
Tephrosiapaucifolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 119(1818).
Tephrosia hispida DC. Prodr. 2: 250 (1825)»
Galega paucifolia Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1: 122 (1-837).
Tephrosia spicata Torr. & Gray, Fh N. Am. 1: 296 (1838).
Tephrosia mollissima Bertol. Bot. Misc. 9: 10, t> j, (Bot. Zeit.
9 : 902) fide A. Gfay, Am. Journ. Sri. (2) 14: n$ (1852).
Vracca spicata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 175 (1891).
Perennial from a long, stout root, more.or less rusty-hirsute, or
villous throughout. Stems decumbent or ascending, simple or
diffusely branching, flexuous, spreading, somewhat angled above,
clothed with mostly spreading or reflexed rusty hairs and a shorter,
retrose, appressed pubescence, often becoming glabrate with age
below; stipules 5-10 mm. long, sometimes persisting; leaves£
cm.-i.5 dm. long, oblong Or linear-oblong in outline, the upper
ones subsessile, the lower short petioled (i-3 cm;); leaflets 5—15,
1-2.5 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide, Oval, oblong or cuneate-
loblong (the terminal ones often obovate), obtuse, mucronate, often
reflexed, minutely pubescent, silky-villous or glabrous above, rusty-
villous beneath, often reflexed; racemes terminal and axillary;
peduncles ancipital, 1-3 dm. long : bracts 5-10 mm. long, subulate,
mostly persisting; flowers 1-1.5 cm. long, remote, few or several
together at the summit of the peduncle; calyx-teeth subulate,
hispid, slightly longer than the tube; corolla white, turning
purple; vexillum pubescent; legumes 3-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm.
wide, linear, acute, straightish ; seeds 8-12, ovoid, brown.
Differing from C. onobrychoides in its more slender and de-
j cumbent habit, fewer flowers and less silky pubescence. Growing
in low sandy pine lands mostly among grasses, notable for its
ascending stems and erect peduncles. Depauperate specimens
with the. flowers in the axils of the upper leaves have been
collected in Florida. Virginia to Florida, westward to Tennessee
and Mississippi.	,
Original locality not given. *
J Type in Herb. Walter.
Examined for
NORTH AMERICAN FLOftX
PLANTS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA,
COLLECTED on the slopes and summit of stone mountain,
DE KALB COUNTY,
BY John K. Small. September 6-12. 1894.
£ .....
Altitude, 1000-1686 Feet.
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