150 



flowers: petals glandular; style with pul.-^scenee, glniids, and short pro)ectlonfl be, 

 low and with the meuihraiu.ceous portion sj.lit from Kti^nu.: p.,d subli.nute, 20 by 

 8 nnri., broadest above nnddle, with very «hort ntellate projections: seeds 2 or 3 

 obliiiuo, obeordate, 5 to 7 by I to (! jiuii. ' 



romuna (jlatidnlom 'i\ni: Ann. J.y<,. N. y. ii. ijiy^ „^,t ^y^^ (^..^y^ 



Habitat: Frotri Colorado and Texas to Oalifonija. 



Speciiiwus ex;*nined: Colorado (Fremont, lKir>; (Ireev, 1872; J'arry 40<i)- AVw 

 M<.x,.o(/rrif/Af 1022; Jlothrodc IHli; I'arn, 62; FnuJIrr 173,187; ir;,v«^eH«« .15'^ 3V 

 Ii„.l>!, 110; Jii;„low; Le Roy Distribntion) ; Texas [lAndlmmvr ti()3,2S6; Jvrmu 730- 

 Jke«;% 320; Wrujht 145; 7»'er.rc/*(,n 7,161,803); California {TImrhey 744) 



Type in Herb. Gray. 



Var. FopiNOKXSis. Herbaceous, taller, with tl.i.-k st.Mns: npper stems au.l ^o^ver8 

 black with larj-e glau.ls; pinna. 7 to 9; leaflets more f-huidular: racemes denser • 

 petals with villous veins: filaments larger, more villous. 



Habitat: Kansas. 



Specimens examined. Kansas {Popime, 1876, type). 



Type in National Herbarium, 



These forms are characterized mostly by the slit of stigma and the taperincr base 

 of tlu! pod. " 



17. H. fruticosa Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 451 (1886). Chestnnt-brown shrub 

 120 to 180 cm. high, with branches, foliage, and infloreseenee canescent with aline 

 pubescence: leaves 2 en,, long; pinna' 3 to 5; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, slightly punctate 

 as also petioles; stipub^s and bracts Jacinate: racemes many, terminal, short (5 to 6 

 mm. long), with 9 to 12 small flowers: pedicels slender, jointed n..ar the bas.>- se])al9 

 costato: vexillum with pyrilonn glands, the ehnv broadly dilated : ui,p.-r filaments 

 with large setose, dilations: style short, cnrved. s.arc^.Iy enlarged above: pod l.inato 

 both ends acute, cinere(»u8 witli minute ])roje(tions. 



Habitat: Coahnila, mountains near.Jimulico. 



SpccimciiN examined: Coahnila (Priiujle 230, type). 



Type in Herb. Gray, and J. Donnell-Smith. 



