Erect perennial herbs with slender trailing 
(Dr Le Parkeri Ste John. 
ootstocks, the stems commonly 30-60 cm, tall, sparingly hirtellous; 
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leaves commonly with 4-5 pairs of leaflets, the rachis 8-15 cm, long, 
terminating in a slender simple or three-branched tendril 2-6 cm, long; 
leaflets approximately opposite, soft, subsessile, 3-6 cm, long, commonly 
15-3 cm. broad, rarely as narrow as 1 cm., oval or elliptical, less often 
ovate, blunt at both ends, tipped with a short mucro, subglaucous beneath, 
wholly glabrous; stipules prevailingly lanceolate, 10-20 mn, “broad, acute 
at both ends; racemes axillary, nearly glabrous, their peduncles 3-6 cme 
long, bearing usually about _9-12 flowers on pedicels 3-4 mm, long; calyxe& 
tube campanulate, 5-4 mm. ob ique, rounded at the base, the lower teeth 
1,.5-2 mm, long, the upper shorter, all acuminate, deltoid at the base; 
corolla creamy-white, fading to cream-color, the banner 11-12 mm, broad, 
10-11 mm, long, sparingly veined with purple, the erect portion 5-8 mm. 
tall, wings somewhat undulate; mature pods not seen, 
Frequent within the white pine type in the St. Joe and Clearwater 
forests in shady flats at lower elevations. Ce Se Parker 511 from 
Grizzly Camp, Latah Coe, is the type. Sieadquarters, Epling; Pierce, 
Epling; Forks of Ste Maries Re, Leiberg 1134. 
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