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These two species are so close as to make it doubtful that they are 
not the same. The leaves are identical, the greatest difference 
being. in the calyx, which in Parosela Californica (S. Wats.) is 
smaller, more densely canescent-pubescent and more distinctly 
ribbed. Parosela Fremontii is very variable and appears to inter- 
grade with the three following species. | 
PAROSELA JouNnsoni (S. Wats.) 
Datlea Johnsoni S. Wats. Bot. King’s Rep. 5: 64. 1871. 
Differing from P. Fremontii mainly in the longer, narrowly 
linear leaflets which are only rarely decurrent on the rhachis. 
PAROSELA AMOENA (S. Wats.). 
Dalea amoena §. Wats. Am. Nat. 7: 300. 1876. 
This species was described from some rather fragmentary 
Specimens collected by Mrs. E. P. Thompson, near Kanab, south- 
ern Utah, and now preserved in Herb. Gray. Some similar speci- 
mens were collected in Utah by Captain Bishop in 1872, and are to 
be seen in U. S, Nat. Herb. at Washington. The leaflets vary 
from very acute to rather broadly obtuse, the three terminal ones 
often cohering and appearing as if variously lobed. The most 
marked characters are the slender, linear calyx-teeth, which are as 
long, or nearly as long, as the tube. 
PAROSELA WHEELERI N. Sp. 
Apparently a low shrub; branchlets short, beset with small, 
scattered, elevated, prickle-like glands; leaves 3—7-foliolate, 1-2.5 
em. long, the rhachis flattish, strigose-hirsute; petioles 3-10 
mm. long; leaflets 5-10 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, oblong to 
oblong-ovate, oblong-cuneate, spatulate or ovate, strigose- 
hirsute on both surfaces, less so above, glands small, scattered — 
beneath, the terminal leaflet usually petiolulate, or rarely coher- 
ing with one of the lateral ones; flowers in short (2-4 cm. (?) 
long), few-flowered racemes; bracts not seen; calyx 5-7 mm. 
long, obscurely 10-ribbed, with oblong glands between the ribs, 
sparingly hirsute, at length glabrous, the subulate teeth ciliate, 
much enlarged in fruit, about the length of the tube; corolla 
bluish or reddish purple; legume I cm. or more long, obliquely — a 
oblong, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs, beset with large 
glands, nearly straight on the dorsal, rounded along the ventral 
suture, beaked by the stout base of the style; seed oblong, acut- 
ish at the base, brown. 3 ee ee ee 
