Le laxispicatus Rydbe Stems several, slender, erect or ascending, 
30-50 om, tall, very thinly appressed-hirsute, the internodes 4-8 CM. 
longs petioles of the basal leaves 10-15 om, long or more, slender, 
clothed like the stems, those of the uppermost 1-2 om, long; stipules | 
4-5 mm, long, silky; leaflets 8-11, narrowly oblanceolate, mostly acute 
at the apex, 4-6 (-10) cm. long, 6-10 (15) mm, wide, thinly appressed ~=/ 
hirsute on the lower surface, softly appressed pubescent or nearly or 
quite glabrous on the upper; racemes 15-25 cm. long, the rachis and ped- 
icels pubescent with short more or less spreading hairs, the latter 3-4 | 
mm, long$ bracts 2-4 mm. long, silky, soon dropping; calyx 4,5-5 mm, | 
long, silky-hirsute, the lower lip 4 m, long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 
the upver somewhat shorter, retuse, distinctly humped at the base, the 
hump about 1 mm, long; corolla violet-blue, veined with deeper blue 
kh 
(rarely white) the banner 8-10 mm, in diameter, glabous or hirtellous 
on the back, the wings obovate-cuneate, 8,5-11 m, long, exceeding the 
abruvtly bent glabrous keel; pods 22,5 cm. long, 3-4-seeded, softly 
silky. 
Upper Priest Lake, 2700 ft.; Lookout Mte, 6000 ft.; Scurvy Mt., 5800 ft.; 
divide below St. Joe and Clearwater R™se; Harrison; Priest Exp. Sta., 
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2700 ftes South Baldy Mt.; Roman Noses Upper Priest Re, 4000 ft. 
