. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh. Few-flowered Psoralea. Fig. 2492. Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 475- i8i4- Erect, finely appressed-canescent, especially when young, punctate, much branched, slender, 2°-4° high. Root not tuberous; leaves short-petioled, digitately 3-S-foliolate; stipules subulate, i"-2" long; leaflets very short-stalked, entire, oval, oblon
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh. Few-flowered Psoralea. Fig. 2492. Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 475- i8i4- Erect, finely appressed-canescent, especially when young, punctate, much branched, slender, 2°-4° high. Root not tuberous; leaves short-petioled, digitately 3-S-foliolate; stipules subulate, i"-2" long; leaflets very short-stalked, entire, oval, oblong or elliptic, 6"-io" long, i4"-3" wide, obtuse and mucronulate at the , narrowed or cuneate at the base; pedun- cles slender, longer than the leaves; racemes loosely 6-14-flowered, 1-3' long; bracts scale-like, persist- ent ; flowers purplish, 2" long; corolla about twice the length of the calyx; pod ovate, glabrous, punc- tate, 2"-3" long; seed ovoid, brown. Prairies. Illinois to South Dakota. Texas and Sonora, west to Colorado and Montana. Scurvy-pea. May-Oct. Psoralea obtusiloba T. & G., doubtfully recorded from Kansas in our first edition, is not definitely known 3. Psoralea floribunda Xutt. Many-flowered Psoralea. Fig. 2493. P. floribunda Xutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 3 P. tenuiflora floribunda Rydb. Fl. Neb. 21: 55- Stem i°-4° high, profusely branching, canescent, not glandular. Petioles 2j"-l5" long, mostly shorter than the leaflets; stipules ih"-3i" long, subulate, sometimes reflexed; leaves 3-5- sometimes 7-f olio- late; leaflets s"-i8" long, ii"-4" wide, oblong, glan- dular on both surfaces, rugose, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above, canescent with closely appressed white hairs beneath ; peduncles 2'-7' long; spikes oblong or cylindric, usually many-flowered, the flowers about 4" long, at length interrupted and appearing almost as if whorled; bracts i"-il&qu
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