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and lower teeth linear, the upper one oblong and bifid. 
Corolla: Vexillum and carina yellow: Ale almost white, 
waved, the claws very distinct, linear, that of the vexillum 
remote from the rest. Stamens diadelphous; the free one 
apparently always abortive, the rest united to a little below 
the anthers, where they separate into nine alternately 
shorter and narrow filaments. Anthers smaller on the short- 
er filaments, roundish, yellow. Germen linear : Style fili- 
form, curved upwards: Stigma capitate. Legumen two to 
three inches long, compressed, brownish, a little contracted 
between the seeds, acuminated at the point ; within bear- 
ing several roundish, oblong, compressed seeds. Between 
the seeds are spurious dissepiments. 
This is another of the many interesting novelties dis- 
covered by Mr. Dovetas, and thus introduced to the gar- 
dens of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered in June, 
1828, in the open border, and in common soil. It was 
found growing abundantly in low alluvial, overflowed soils 
between Fort Vancouver and the Grand Rapids, upon the 
Columbia, and also near the base of Mount St. Helen’s, in 
similar situations. The root is perennial. 
The habit of this plant, and the general appearance of 
the flowers and seed-vessels, unite this plant to the Genus 
Lotus. But it differs from it in the pinnated (not ternate) 
leaves, in the long, linear, remote claws of the petals, the 
waved ale, and the capitate stigma ;—still I am not sure 
that these are characters which would warrant a separation 
from the true Lor. : 
Fig, 1. Flower. 2. Stamens including the Pistil. 3. Summit of the 
Pistil and Stamens, the latter spread open. 4. Style and Stigma—Magnified. 
