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(AN, Le pinnatus Hook, An erect branching perennial 30-40 cm, tall, 
glabrous; leaves 4-6 cm, long, the stipules membranaceous, ovate-lanceo- 
late, 3-5 mm, long, the rachis 5-5 cm, long, leaflets 5-7 on stalks 1-1.5 
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mm, long, elliptical-oblong or narrowly obovate; umbels on axillary peduncles 
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these rather stout, 4-12 om. long; calyx tubular, 7 mm, long, glabrate 
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the tube transparent, the teeth awl-shaped, 2=-2.5 m, long; corolla light 
yellow, the wings longer than the keel; pods linear, straight, Sok long 
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2 mm, in diameter, (Hosackia bicolor Dougl.). 
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Springy places, Kootenai Coe, Leiberg 619" (corresponds well with the 
type of Lotus pinnatus Hook." as studied at Kew, fide Jepson); Little 
Potlatch Re, Sandberg 402. 
ee Le americanus (Nutt.) Bisch, A slender erect annual 10-50 cm, tall, 
widely branching, villous or pilose, slender; leaves 2-4 cm, long, trié& 
foliolate, the stipules glandlike, inconspicuous, the rachis 3-8 mm, 
long, the leaflets shortly stalked, 10-50 mme long, elliptical, acute, 
softly pilose, the lowermost leaflets closely pressed to the stems ped- 
uncles axillary, slender, somewhat exceeding the leaves, flowers solitary, 
the bractlets resembling a small leaflet; calyx softly pilose, 4-6 mm, 
long, the teeth longer than the tube, narrowly lanceolate, curving, very 
acute; corolla white, veined with rose, 5-6 mm. long, the banner 5 mm, 
in diameter; pod linear, nearly straight, about 2.5 cm, long, 2mm, wide, 
flattened, the style persistent. 
Dry gravelly banks and roadsides, in or near the grassland. Yost 
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Falls, Heller 610; Kootenai Co., Sandberg; Granite Stae, Epling; Hope, 
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