Spiked Hoarypea

Cracca spicata (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 175. 1891
Cracca virginiana L. Sp. PI. 752, in part. 1753.
Galega virginiana L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1062, in part. 1763.
Galega spicata Walt. PI. Car. 188. 1788.
Galega villosa Michx. PI. Bor. Am. 2: 67. 1803. Not G. villosa I,. 1759.
Tephrosia villosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329. 1807. Nut T. villosa (L.) Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 329.
1807. Tephrosia paucijolia Nutt. Gen. 2: 119. 1818.
Galega JloriJa P. G. Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gaertn. Nachtr. 3. 422, as tu synonym. 1817. Tephrosia hispida DC. Prodr. 2: 250. 1825.
Galena paucijolia Nutt.; M. A. Curt. Bost. Jour. Nat Hist. 1: 122. 1837. Tephrosia spicata T & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 296. 1838. Tephrosia mollissima Bertul. Mem. Accad. Bologna 2 : 274. 1850.
A perennial, with a strong and long woody root; stem decumbent or ascending, flexuose, somewhat angled, rusty hirsute-villous throughout, sometimes becoming glabrate below; leaves 5-15 cm. long; stipules 5-10 mm. long, often persistent, linear lanceolate; petiole 3-20 mm. long; rachis villous-hirsute; leaflets 5-15, broadly oblong to oval or obovate, obtuse, mucronate, often reflexed, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, sparingly silky or glabrate above, densely villous or pilose beneath; racemes elongate, lax, opposite the leaves, including the peduncle 1-3 dm. long; bracts 5-10 mm. long, subulate, persistent; flowers 1-3 at each node, mostly near the end of the peduncle; calyx silky-hirsute, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3-4 mm. long; corolla white or purple, 12-15 mm, long; banner strigose without, suborbicular, short-clawed; wings oblanceolate, longer than the keel, pod 3—5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, acute, straight, S-12-seeded; seeds brown.
Type locality: Carolina.
Distribution: Sandy pine lands from Delaware and Virginia to Tennessee, Mississippi, and Florida.

Cracca flexuosa (Chapm) A. Heller, Cat N. Am PI ed. 2. 7 1900.
Tephrosia hispidula 7 T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 297. 1838.
Tephrosia flexuvsa Chapm.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 297, as synonym. 1838.
Tephrosia villosa flexuosa B. I,. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 200. 1899.
A perennial, from a woody root; stem slender, 2-6 dm. high, flexuose, sparingly hirsute; leaves 6-12 dm. long; stipules subulate, 8-10 mm. long, hirsute, persistent; petiole 1-3 cm. long; rachis hirsute; leaflets 3-15, linear or lance-linear, long-acute, glabrous or puberulent above, hirsute and with stiong reddish veins beneath, the lateral ones spreading or reflexed, 1-3 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, the terminal one larger, 1.5-4.5 cm. long; racemes lax, fewflowered, 8-18 cm. long; flowers 1 or 2 at each node; bracts subulate; calyx hirsute, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 3.5-4 mm. long; corolla 12 mm. long; banner suborbicular, short-clawed, strigose without; wings obliquely oblanceolate, round at the apex, with an acute basal auricle.
Type locality: Florida.
Distribution: Florida and Alabama.