270 i,e;afle;ts. 



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about 6 leaflets, % inch long or more, oblong-elliptic to obo- 



vate-oblong, mucronulate-acute at the otherwise blunt apex, 



leaf rachis firm, ending a short usually simple tendril: ^ 



peduncle 1-3-flowered; calyx thin, showing now and then a 



few scattered hairs, the teeth passing from deltoid in the 



shorter to subulate in the longer : corolla ^ inch long, but a 



full % inch wide across the banner, this therefore excessively 



enlarged, but only ascending, the sides somewhat reflexed. 



Big Horn County, Wyoming, I. T. Worthley, 1896, also 

 sent out for Vicia linearis (Nutt.) Greene • 



Miscellaneous Specific Types — VI. 



^ Talinum vai,idui,um. Slenderly fusiform or subcylindric 

 fleshy root 4 to 6 inches long surmounted by one or more 

 thick caudex-Iike jointed and in age even knotted branches an 

 inch long, these bearing annually one or more short compact 

 leafy branches and a few-flowered cyme 1 or 2 inches long : 

 leaves % inch long, linear, acute, apparently subterete : flow- 

 ers 1 to 5 in each cyme : corolla large for the group, light rose- 

 red : stamens 10; filaments short, slenderly subulate ; anthers 

 yellow : seeds unknown. 



Collected on the Tusayan Forest Reservation, Arizona, 11 

 July, 1912, by R. R. Hill. Of the group of Phemeranthi, but 

 dwarf and very stout ; the whole plant above ground not more 

 than two inches high. 



/ Talinum marginatum, a caulescent dwarf, the tuft of 

 leaves and inflorescences barely 2 inches high above ground, 

 or in very fair specimens only 1 inch ; root very short and 

 almost tuberiform, oval or shorter : leaves neither terete nor 

 even linear, being oblanceolate-spatulate and obtuse, much 

 flattened and adorned with a narrow but very distinct scarious 

 margin : cymes scarcely equalling the leaves, few-flowered ; 

 corolla yellow: seeds dull, round-subreniform, marked with 



several concentric subcircular lines. 



Sierra Madre, near Santa Teresa, Tepic, Mexico, 12 Aug., 

 1897, collected by J. N. Rose. The plant is related to T. 







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