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Cracca chapmanii (Vail) .Small, Fl. SE. U. S 612, 1331. 1903.
Cracca chrysophylla Chapmanni Vail. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 34. 1895. Tephrosia chrysophylla Chapmanni B. L. Robinson. Bot. Gaz. 28: 198. 1899.
A perennial herb, with woody root; stem slender, 1-3 dm. long, pilose with ascending
or appressed hairs; leaves 1-3 cm. long, subsessile; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate;
rachis appressed-pilose; leaflets 3-7, obovate or elliptic, rounded to retuse at the apex, 5-15 cm. long, glabrous above, silky-strigose beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including the peduncle 2-4 cm. long, 2-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, 2 mm. long; corolla purple, about 8 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; pod about 2 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, straight, strigose, fr-8-seeded.
Typb locality: St. Joseph's, Florida.
Distribution: Type locality and vicinity. »
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Cracca chrysophylla (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 174 1891
Tephrosia chrvsnphvlla Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 489. 1814.
l.alega florida F. G. Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Naclilr. 3: 422, as to description 1817.
Tephrosia prostrala Nutt. Gen. 2: 120. 1818.
Perennial herb, with a woody root; stems prostrate, 3-10 dm. long, dichotomously branched, densely short-pilose, somewhat viscid and usually tawny; leaves 3-6 cm. long, nearly sessile; stipules lance-subulate, deciduous, 3-4 mm. long; petiole 1-3 mm. long; rachis pilose; leaflets 3-9, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or retuse, coriaceous, 1-3 cm. long, 7-20 mm. wide, glabious and yellowish-green above, appressedsilky beneath; lacemes opposite the leaves, lax, including the pilose peduncle 4-10 cm. long; bractlets 5 mm. long, lance-subulate, persistent; calyx silky-pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3 mm. long; corolla purple; banner broadly obovate, 1 cm. long, short-clawed, abruptly acutish, strigose on the back; wings oblanceolate-oblong, round at the apex, short-clawed, with a basal auricle on the upper side, slightly shorter than the banner; keel-petals broadly lunate, almost semicircular; pod 3.5-4.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, strigose, straight, abruptly acute at both ends, 8-10-seeded; seeds suborbicular, brownish, variegated with black.
TypB locality: Georgia.
Distribution: Pine barrens from Georgia to Mississippi and Florida.
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Cracca carpenteri Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial herb; stem decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, strigose; leaves 2-3.5 cm. long, very short-petioled; stipules 2-3 mm. long, lance-subulate; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis strigose; leaflets 5-7, obovate, retuse or truncate at the apex, 1-1.5 cm. long, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, strigose with long hairs beneath; racemes opposite the leaves, including the peduncle 5-8 cm. long, 1-4-flowered; calyx strigose, the tube 2 mm long, the lobes ovatedeltoid, acute 2 mm. long; corolla purple, 10-12 mm. long; banner broadly obovate; wings obliquely obovate, with a small acute basal auricle; keel-petals semi-orbicular, with an acute basal auricle; pod 4-4.5 cm. long, slightly downwardly arcuate, 4 mm. wide, hirtous
Type collected in pine woods, Peusacola, Florida, June 1838, Or. Carpenter 44 (Torrey herb., flower) ; also in fruit. Chapman (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Western Florida.
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