. 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. Botany. 386 3. Phaca longifolia (PurshJ Nutt. Long-leaved IMilk Vetch. Fig. 2555. Psoralca longifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 741. 1814. Phaca longifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 346. 1838. Astragalus pictus var. filifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 21$. 1864. A, filifolius Smyth, Trans. Kans. Acad. 15: 61. 1895. Erect, very slender, branching, finely canescent, 6'-iS'
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 386 3. Phaca longifolia (PurshJ Nutt. Long-leaved IMilk Vetch. Fig. 2555. Psoralca longifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 741. 1814. Phaca longifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 346. 1838. Astragalus pictus var. filifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 21$. 1864. A, filifolius Smyth, Trans. Kans. Acad. 15: 61. 1895. Erect, very slender, branching, finely canescent, 6'-iS' high. Stipules subulate, rigid, those of the lower part of the stem connate; leaflet usually I, narrowly linear, nearly terete, 1-4' long, *"-i" wide, sometimes 3 or 5; leaves persistent; flowers few, pink, 3"-5" long, in short loose racemes; peduncles much shorter than the leaves; pod l-celled, short-stalked, much-inflated, membranous, spotted, glabrous, ovoid, short-pointed, not furrowed, about i' long, i' thick. In sandy soil. South Dakota to Nebraskai, Wyoming. Idaho and New Mexico. Bird-egg pea. May-June. Phaca Bodini (Sheldon) a decumbent species with small blackish pubescent pods and purple flowers, common in Wyoming and Colorado, enters our area in western Nebraska. 28. HOMALOBUS Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 352. 1838. Perennial herbs, with pinnate simple or pinnately 3-5-foliolate leaves, and racemose mostly small flowers, the peduncles short, or elongated. Keel of the corolla obtuse. Pod flat, glabrous or pubescent, completely i-celled, few-several-seeded, the sutures both prominent externally. [Greek, regular-lobes.] Besides the following species, some 30 others occur in western North .-America. Type species : Homalobus caespitosus Nutt. Plants leafy-stemmed; leaves pinnate; leaflets 9-23, thin. i. H. Icncllus. Plants scapose ; leaves simple, or pinnately 3-. -foliolate. the leaflets very narrow H. caespitosus. I. Homalobus tenellus (Pur
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