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A HANDFUL OF VETCHES. 269 



acute almost needle-pointed apex ; rachis as narrow, ending 

 in a branched tendril ; stipules very narrowly semisagittate, 

 the body entire, very acutely subulate, the basal lobe shorter, 

 with 2 or more subulate teeth, a separate subulate lobe stand- 

 ing out divaricately from between the body and the basal lobe: 

 flowers 1 to 4 at summit of the long rigid peduncle ; lower calyx- 

 teeth subulate, all rigid ; corolla ^ inch long, the banner 

 more than usually elongated, but ascending, not erect : pods 

 elliptic and 1 -seeded, or more elongated and 2-3-seeded, the 

 valves very firm, transversely lineate or even more or less 

 reticulate. 



Western part of Klickitat Co., Washington, near the Colum- 

 bia River, May, 1891, W. N. Suksdorf, who distributed it for 

 the very different, and also geographically remote Lathyrus 

 linearis y Nutt. The stiflf needle-like foliage, the general rigidity 

 of texture, and, what is no more than equal significance with 

 the texture, the peculiarly elongate banner, place this in the 

 rank of an indisputable species. 



j^ ViciA CALUANTHEMA. I^ow perennial, upright, only 4 to 



leafy 



Yi 



length of the leaf, herbage pale as with bloom, also rather 

 sparsely somewhat villous-strigose : leaflets about 8, linear, 

 hardly acute, firm, 1 to iX inches long, the rachis ending in 

 a simple though not short tendril : peduncles short, about 3- 

 flowered, the flowers crowded at the end of the peduncle : calyx 

 thin, even subscarious and tinged with purple from about the 

 middle, all the teeth deltoid and short ; corolla nearly an inch 



% 



and of greater length. 



Wyoming, 2 June, 1897, collected 



distributed 



as 



ViciA VExiLLARis. Plants 7 to 10 inches high, slender, 



least 



as 



be translucent and as 



