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teeth 2.5 mm. long; corolla yellowish, 15-17 mm. long; pods ascending, subterete, 12-15 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. thick, pubescent with white and black hairs. 



Rocky ridges, Boreal Zones; Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Washington, to northern Idaho and adjacent 

 British Columbia. Type locality: Olympic Mountains, Washington. June-July. 



4. Oxytropis viscida Nutt. Sticky or Viscid Oxytrope. Fig. 2918. 



Oxytropis viscida Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 341. 1838. 

 Spiesia viscida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 207. 1891. 

 Aragallus viscidus Greene, Pittonia 3: 211. 1897. 



Perennial with a branched woody caudex. Leaves 10-15 cm. long; leaflets 25-57, oblong- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute or obtuse; scape 5-15 cm. high, villous-hirsute ; stipe 3-8 cm. 

 long, flowers mostly ascending; calyx-tube villous, 5 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 2.5-3 mm. 

 long ; corolla violet, rarely white, 12 mm. long ; pod oblong-ovoid, 12-15 mm. long, short-pubes- 

 cent. 



Moist meadows, Boreal Zones; Rocky Mountains and Great Basin species, reaching the Pacific States in 

 eastern Oregon and in the White Mountains and eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California. 

 Type locality: "Rocky mountains, near the sources of the Oregon." June— July. 



5. Oxytropis deflexa (Pall.) DC. Pendent Pod Oxytrope. Fig. 2919. 



Astragalus deflexus Pall. Act. Acad. Petrop. 2: 268. pi. 15. 1779. 



Oxytropis deflexa DC. Astrag. 96. 1802. 



Aragallus deflexus Heller, Cat. N. Amer. PI. 4: 1898. 



Perennial, loosely villous, acaulescent or sometimes with one or two short stems from the 

 crown. Leaflets 25-41, lanceolate to ovate, 5-20 mm. long, acute; raceme loosely flowered; calyx- 

 teeth subulate, nearly as long as the tube; corolla 6-9 mm. long, whitish below, blue above; pod 

 oblong, about 15 mm. long, strongly reflexed. 



Moist ground, Boreal and Transition Zones; Alaska southward to Idaho, South Dakota, New Mexico, and 

 eastern Washington, where it has been collected near Old Waucanda, and also near Tonasket, Okanogan County. 

 Type locality: Siberia. May-July. 



Oxytropis Parryi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 4. 1884. Tufted or matted on the root crown, 3-7 cm. 

 high, densely silvery-pubescent. Leaflets 11-15, oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-4 mm. long; peduncles exceeding the 

 leaves, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2-flowered; calyx black and white strigcse; corolla purple, 8-10 mm. long; pods 1-2 cm. 

 long, oblong, acute, grooved ventrally, canescent. A single collection from Sheep Mountain, White Mountains, 

 Inyo County, California, is doubtfully referred to this species of Utah and New Mexico. 



20. GLYCYRRHIZA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 741. 1753. 



Perennial herbs, with thick sweet roots and odd-pinnate leaves. Flowers in axillary 

 spikes or racemes, blue or white. Calyx-teeth subequal, the two upper sometimes partly 

 united. Standard short-clawed, with a narrowly ovate or oblong blade; wings oblong; 

 keel acute or obtuse. Stamens mainly diadelphous ; anthers alternating longer and shorter. 

 Pod sessile, covered with prickles or glands, indehiscent, several-seeded. [Name Greek, 

 meaning sweet root.] 



About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone, southern South America and Australia. Type species, 

 Glycyrrhiza glabra L. 



1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh. Wild or American Licorice. Fig. 2920. 



Liquivitia lepidota Nutt. in Fraser's Cat. 1813. Hyponym. 

 Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 480. 1814. 



Stems erect, 3-10 dm. high, herbage beset with minute scales or glands, otherwise glabrous 

 or more or less puberulent. Leaves short-petioled ; stipules lanceolate, acute, 4-6 mm. long, de- 

 ciduous ; leaflets 11-19, lanceolate to oblong, acute or obtuse, mucronate, entire, 2-3 cm. long, 

 short-petiolulate ; peduncles shorter than the leaves; spikes 2.5-5 cm. long, many-flowered; calyx 

 narrowly campanulate, the teeth lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the tube; corolla yellowish 

 white, 8-12 mm. long ; pod about 12 mm. long, oblong, beset with hooked prickles, suggesting a 

 cockle-bur. 



Low ground and waste places, Boreal to Lower Sonoran Zones; British Columbia and Saskatchewan to 

 southern California, Minnesota, Missouri, and Chihuahua. Type locality: on the banks cf the Missouri River, 

 near St. Louis. May-Aug. 



Glycyrrhiza lepidota var. glutinosa (Nutt.) S. Wats, in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 144. 1876. Stems, 

 petioles and peduncles glandular-villous, as well as scaly; spikes usually not over half the length of the leaves. 

 This is the more common form on the Pacific slope, especially west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and 

 Oregon and in the Coast Ranges of California, but it extends eastward to Idaho. The type locality is on the 

 Snake River. 



21. CORONILLA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 742. 1753. 



Herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves. Flowers in axillary pedunculate heads or umbels, 

 purple or yellow. Calyx -teeth subequal, the two upper somewhat united. Petals clawed; 

 standard suborbicular ; wings oblong to obliquely obovate; keel beaked, incurved. Sta- 

 mens diadelphous; anthers uniform. Pod terete, angled or compressed, jointed. [Name 

 Greek, diminutive of crown.] 



An Old World genus of about 25 species. Type species, Coronilla varia L. 



