Mr. Douglas found it abundantly upon the gravelly 
banks of the southern tributaries of the Columbia, and in 
barren ground in the interior of California. 
A hardy annual, flowering from May to July. Our 
drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society in 1828. 
* Annual. Root fibrous, with warty, fleshy tubercles. 
Stem erect, branching, about a foot high, with short white 
downy hairs. Leaves digitate, with subulate, dark stipules. 
Leaflets 5-7, linear-spatulate, smooth above, ciliate, with 
minute, short, fine hairs below, thick and fleshy, three- 
fourths of an inch long. Flowers partly whorled, few, 
sessile. Bractee subulate, pilose, darker than the leaves. 
Calyx silky, upper lip bifid, under entire.  Vezillum ovate, 
blue, white in the centre, with two or four parallel black 
dots. Ale oblong, same length as the vexillum ; keel fal- 
cate, acute. Legumen linear-oblong, with transverse fur- 
rows, 5 or 6-seeded. Seeds large, brownish gray, mottled." 
— Douglas. 
J.-L: 
