38 Contributions to Western Botany. [zoe 



except the sparsely nigrescent calyx. Leaves three to four 

 inches long and with a very short petiole, central ones the largest, 

 leaflets on the lower leaves three lines long and obovate and 

 rounded, eight to ten pairs, central leaves with leaflets one-half 

 inch long, obovate to elliptical and retuse. Peduncles very stout, 

 sulcate and longer than the leaves, six inches long and widely 

 spreading, racemosely six to ten flowered near the apex, pedi- 

 cels a line long and equaling the bract, stout; calyx tube campanu- 

 late cylindrical, two lines long, hyaline, somewhat reflexed, 

 teeth one and one-half lines long and filifoim from a broad base, 

 keel moderately arched, surpassing calyx teeth by three lines; 

 faintly pink tipped, narrowed at obtuse apex, wings about 

 equaling the keel and the banner is a line longer and pink. 

 Pods about linear, very acutely beaked, sessile, base pendent and 

 apex erect, the pod being bent nearer the base than apex into a 

 sharp curve so that in some cases the apex touches or 

 surpasses the base, very slightly obcompressed, very slightly 

 sulcate dorsally and occasionally so ventrally, dorsal septum 

 produced so as to make the pod almost two-celled, but not quite. 

 This plant seems to be nearest A. distortus, but is quite 

 peculiar. Montezuma Caiion, Utah, June i, 1892, Coll, by 



Miss Alice Eastwood. 



NEILLIA. 



It was my intention to take up this genus later, but in going 

 over my herbarium to fill out some exchanges it has come in my 

 way to study the whole genus. 



The recent revision by E. L- Greene has changed the nomen- 

 clature considerably. 



My method of field study for the last fifteen years has been to 

 collect a large amount of typical material for my sets and 

 exchanges, and to collect for myself from one to five or more 

 specimens of flower and fruit of every deviating form, and to 

 accompany them with such notes as the specimens would not 

 show. I have in this time gathered from a wide field, from Iowa 

 to California, a large amount of material on this and other genera. 

 It early became evident that the characters of Watson's Neillia 

 Torreyi as given by himself were valueless, and I sent him a full 

 suite of material showing it, but with his usual persistence he 



