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subulate, minute, dark colored and deciduous, leaving a 

 glandular base : peduncles 2 — 4 inches long, 3 — 7-flowered; 

 bract 1-foliolate, closely subtending the umbel: corolla an 

 inch long, bright yellow throughout; the standard erect, a 

 half inch broad: pod stout, 1^ inches long. 



El Dorado County, on Sweetwater Creek, 1883, Mrs. K. 

 Curran. 



To come in between H. Torreyi and H. grandifiora; the 

 very showy flowers nearly twice as large as in any other 

 known species. The young specimens would be referred to 

 the group with foliaceous stipules; the older ones, showing 

 only the glandular, basal portion, would as surely be taken 

 as belonging to the gland-bearing group. 



H. flexuosa. 



Stems depressed, rigid and flexuous, a foot long; minutely 

 silky-pubescent: stipular glands large: leaflets 3 — 5, thick- 

 ish, broadly obvate, retuse or somewhat obcordate, 3 — 5 

 lines long: peduncles an inch long, 1 — 3-flowered, the bract 

 wanting, replaced by a pair of conspicuous glands a little 

 below the umbel: calyx- teeth lanceolate, as long as the tur- 

 binate tube : pod an inch long. 



Cedros Island, Dr. Veatch. Very unlike any of those nu- 

 merous forms from the Mexican region which go under the 

 name of H. rigida. 



H. procumbens. 



Near EL. glabra but appressed-silky throughout: stems 

 prostrate, 2 feet long: leaflets 3, approximate, oblanceolate, 

 mostly acute, J — 1 inch long: umbels numerous, sessile, 

 bractless, about 2-flowered: calyx-teeth very short, triangu- 

 lar-subulate: pod almost an inch long, slender and nearly 

 straight, 2-seeded. 



Tehachapi, Kern County, 1884. Mrs. K. Curran. Of the 

 Syrmatium group, among which it is remarkable for its long, 

 straight pods. 



