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Dr. H. H. Rusby seems to have been the first to observe this shrub and called 
our attention to it. He collected it somewhere about the Mogollon Mountains 
in 1880 or 1881. 
Trifolium longicaule Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial; stems slender, reclining, glabrous, much branched, 60 cm. long 
or less; petioles slender, several times as long as the leaflets; stipules narrow, 
attenuate, entire or nearly so; leaflets obovate to elliptic-oblong, rounded or 
obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, bright green, glabrous, prominently 
veined, the veins slightly prolonged beyond the low teeth; peduncles slender, 
40 to 60 mm. long, nearly glabrous but with a few long crinkled hairs, often 
tomentulose just below the head; involucre short, one-third to one-half as 
long as the flowers, of linear-lanceolate, subulate bracts distinct almost to their 
bases; calyx one-half or two-thirds as long as the corolla, the teeth linear-subu- 
late, almost twice as long as the tube; corolla pale purplish, 11 mm, long or 
less, the banner emarginate. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no, 562146, collected along Hagle 
Creek at Gilmores Ranch in the White Mountains, August 25, 1907, by E. O. 
Wooton and Paul C. Standley. Altitude 2,220 meters. The plants grew in 
gravelly soil at the very edge of the water. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: White Mountains, alt. 1,890 meters, 1897, 
Wooton 235; Cold Spring Canyon, August 17, 1899, Wooton, 
This is related to 7’. lacerum, the flowers being of the same size, but the 
involucre is more deeply cleft and the segments much narrower, while the 
peduncles are more or less pubescent instead of glabrous. 
Vicia melilotoides Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial from a long, slender root; stems slender, angled, soft-pubescent, 
80 cm. long or less, ascending or prostrate; leaflets 10 to 16, linear-oblong or 
linear-lanceolate, 25 mm. long or less, obtuse and mucronate or acute, bright 
green, rather thick, finely veined, loosely pubescent on both surfaces, becoming 
nearly glabrous in age; racemes many-flowered (15 to 20 or more), on peduncles 
as long as or often much shorter than the rachis; pedicels 1.5 mm. long or less; 
calyx 1.5 mm. long, at first loosely pubescent, glabrate in age; corolla 7 mm. 
long, creamy white; pods 25 to 80 mm. long, glabrous, about 8-seeded. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 498706, collected at Winsors 
Ranch in the Pecos River National Forest, July 16, 1908, by Paul C. Standley 
(no. 4364). Altitude 2,520 meters. The plants were abundant all through this 
region on open, stony hillsides in the Transition Zone. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mountains west of Las Vegas, 1881, Vasey; 
Upper Pecos River, July 27, 1898, Maltby & Coghill 108; Coolidge, June 16, 
1887, Tracy 255; Hillsboro Peak, alt, 3,000 meters, 1904, Metcalfe 1245; Mogollon 
Creek, alt. 2,400 meters, 1903, Metcalfe 266; 1851, Wright 943; Middle Fork 
of the Gila, August 5, 1900, Wooton; McClures Ranch, August .2, 1900, Wooton; 
near Cloudcroft, July 31, 1899, Wooton; White Mourtains, alt. 2,100 meters, 
1897, Wooton 288. 
This has long been confused with V. pulchella, which it closely resembles 
in general appearance. The flowers, however, are white, instead of blue as 
in that species, and much more numerous, while the peduncles are shorter, 
and the calyx less pubescent. Both species are found in the same region in 
the White Mountains, where they are easily distinguished in the field. 
