This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... 11. CRACCA L. Sp. PI. 752. 1753. Tephiosia Pers. Syn. 58: 328. 1807. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, or the two upper united a little higher than the rest; standard nearly orbicular, generally silky outside and turned back, scarcely longer than the obovate wings; standard, wings, and keel more or less coherent; stamens ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... 11. CRACCA L. Sp. PI. 752. 1753. Tephiosia Pers. Syn. 58: 328. 1807. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, or the two upper united a little higher than the rest; standard nearly orbicular, generally silky outside and turned back, scarcely longer than the obovate wings; standard, wings, and keel more or less coherent; stamens monadelphous; legume linear, flat, severalseeded; flowers racemose; leaves odd-pinnate, in ours with many leaflets. Over 120 species, herbs, sometimes frutescent, inhabitants of the warmer regions of both hemispheres. Etymology: a Latin name used by Pliny for some species of wild vetch. Cracca virginiana L. Sp. PI. 752. 1753. Tephrosia virginiana Pers. Syn. X: 329. 1807. Perennial from a woody base, strict, erect, 3-6 dm. high, whitish silky-villose when young, striate; leaflets 4-14 pairs, linear-oblong, veiny, mucronute, 2-4 cm. long, glabrous above, silky beneath; flowers in terminal sessile or short-peduncled racemes or panicles; calyx silky-villose, teeth acuminate, longer than the tube; corolla cream-colored or streaked with purple or pink, about 2 cm. long; legume 3-5 cm. long, cinereous villose-pubescentRare: reported from near Fairbury. (Ontario--Minn.--Tex.--Fla., Mexico.) I. SPIESIA Neck. Elem. 3: 13. 1790. Oxytropis DC. Astr. 19. 1802. Calyx tubular or deeply campanulate; banner ovate or oblong, wings oblong, keel ending in a sharp point; pod sessile or stipitate, 2-valved, sub-biloc-ular by the intrusion of the ventral (upper) suture. Our species are low, acaulescent perennials with scape-like peduncles and tufts of pinnate leaves on a short caudex. About 150 species, inhabitants of temperate and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere. Etymology: dedicated to Spies. Spieia lambertii (porsh) Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 207. 189L Oxytropis ...
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