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(4) Le depressus Rydb. Stems silvery, numerous, much-branched prostrate or 
decumbent, the new growth erect, 10-15 ometall, silky; leaves numerous, 
the petioles slender, 4-8 cm. long, clothed like the stems, the upper 
: somewhat shorter than the lower; stipules 3-5 mm, long, setaceous; leaflets 
mostly 9, 1-2 cm. long, 2e5-5e5 mm, wide, oblanceolate, mostly obtuse at 
the apex, silkyehirsute on poth surfaces; racemes ovoid, 1-3 cm, long, the 
peduncles subequal, the bracts subulate, 4-5 mm. long, soon deciduous; 
calyx 6-7 mm, long, villous-hirsute, the upper lip 4 mm, long, bifid, *he 
lower somewhat longer, shortly trifid, the lobes acute; corolla blue, veined 
j with deeper blue, the banner rotund, 8 mm, in diameter, sparingly hirsute : 
or glabrous on the back, emarginate, the wings 9 mm, long, obovate-cuneate, 
excceding the glabrous kecl; pods 10-15 mm, long, 7-8 mm, broad, silkye = fi 
@ hirsute, 1-2 seeded. 
Seattered over gravelly mountain slopes. Divide betw,. the St. Joe and ‘ 
Clearwater Rse, 5600 fte, Leiberg 1201; Pole Mt., 6000 ft., Bphing and 
¥ a cai neti a Pan ceaies abt wee 
Kempf; Bearskull Mte, 6000 fte, Epling 10329 
2 cui eis tas 5a 
