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plants the pods are strictly glabrous. Professor E. O. Wooton 

 has an apparently new species, allied to S. ochroleuca, which he 

 collected at Pescado Spring, N. M. 



Seeds in one row in a cell ; petals bright yellow ; plant tall ; living in the mountains 

 (Sapello Cation, etc.). incisa (Engelm. ) Greene. 



Seed in two rows of cell ; petals pale ; plant not so tall ; living in the Middle 



Sonoran zones. 



Pods and pedicels ascending ; flowers whitish ; even the uppermost leaves bipin- 

 natifid ; pubescence of stems above dense, of white branched hairs, none gland- 

 ular ; living in irrigated fields and bottom lands. 



ochroleuca Wooton. 

 I Pods ascending from strongly divergent pedicels ; flowers yellow or yellowish ; liv- 

 ing in dry ground. 

 Flowers inconspicuous ; plant spreading from the base ; upper stems densely 

 glandular-pubescent ; uppermost leaves more or less bipinnatifid, but quite 



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different from those of ochroleuca. 



halictorum Cock erel 1 . 



Flowers conspicuous, yellow ; plant much less spreading ; upper leaves once 

 pinnatifid, with long linear divisions ; pedicels longer. 

 Upper stems glabrous, with a very few gland-hairs. 



andrenarum Cock erel 1. 

 Upper stems white-hairy, the hairs branched. 



andrenarum osmiarum Cockerell. 



On March 18, 1900, at Mesilla Park, I saw Sophia ochroleuca 

 freely visited by the honey bee {ligustica variety) and by Halictus 

 amicus Cockerell. 



N. M. Agr. Exp. Sta. 



Mo.Bot. Garuen, 



1902. 



