(bh, Ae striatus Nutt. A low ashy-green tufted perennial 15-25 em, tall, 
the leaves erect, crowded on the mich shorter scaly branches, stipules 
about 1 em, long, membranous, lanceolate-acuminate, joined at the base, Vu 
blades 10-12 cm, long, silkyshirsute on both surfaces, the leaflets in 
6-8 subopposite pairs, 1-2 em. long, 2,5-4 cM. wide, oblong-lanceolate, 
acutish, narrowed at the base, nearly sessile; racemes ovoid and crowded 
on silky-hirsute peduncles 20-30 cm, long, more elongated in fruit, bracts 
linear-lanceolate, persistent, 4-5 cm, long; calyx-tube tubular-campaml-— 
ate, 3 mn. long, hirsute with white hairs or a few black, the teeth sub- 
ulate, 1.5—2 mm, long; corolla purple 13-14 mm, long, the banner scarcely 
reflexed, the keel 10 mm, long; pods ascending, 12-14 mm, long, plump, 
hirsute with white hairs, (A. adsurgens Hook,). 
On a sandbar, Uvper Priest Re, 3000 ft., pling 7584; Snowy Top Mt., 
d'Urbal,. 
7e Ae microcystis A. Gray. A low ashy perennial 25-30 cme tall with 
numerous ascending appressed-pubescent stems from a prostrate rootstock; 
leaves numerous, 5-6 cm, long, stipules narrowly lanceolate, 4=5 mm, 
long, leaflets mostly opposite, 5-7 pairs, obovate, 1-1.5 cm, long, 
shortly stalked, the upper surface glabrous, the lower shaggy-pubescent ; 
racemes axillary, the bracts awl-shaved, 2 m, long; calyx ovate, appressed = 
pubescont, 3 mm. long, the upper teeth 1 m, long, the lower 1,5 mm, long, 
on pédiccls about 2 mn. long; corolla rose=purple, 7 mm, long, the 
banner abruptly bent near the middle; pods spreading, inflated, about 1 
om. long, oval, 4-5 mm, in diameter, transversely wrinkled, pubescent 
with curved hairs, tipned by the slender, recurved stvle; seeds chocolate 
browm, flavtened-reniform, 1,5 ma, in diameter, (Phaca microcystis Rydb.), 
Saniv shore, Lake end Oreille, Sandbers, 816. 
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