58 ERYTHEA. 



as the scapes; leaflets 7-13, oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute, the 

 longest often 25-30 mm. long, some of the primary ones short 

 (5 mm.) and obtuse; inflorescence crowded, 10-20 flowered, elon- 

 gating in fruit: calyx and bracts softly silky-lanate : bracts con- 

 spicuous, greenish, leaf-like, lanceolate, equaling or but slightly 

 shorter than the calyx : calyx inflated in fruit, globose-urceolate, 

 10-15 mm. long, its teeth short, greenish : corolla white or yellow- 

 ish, nearly twice as long as the calyx, the standard with a few pur- 

 plish streaks ;iud the keel with a conspicuous spot near the tip: 

 pod pubescent, inflated but with firm walls, oblong-elliptic, nearly 

 filling the calyx, the style abruptly flexed near the summit and 

 protruding from the narrowed mouth of the calyx. 



Probably a rare plant ; but two collections of it known to the 

 writer. Secured by Mr. Elias Nelson on an exposed summit in 

 the Seminole Mts., at about 10,000 ft. alt., July, 1898, No. 4925 ; 

 and by Dr. J. W. Blankinship on " dry mountain benches " near 

 Bozeman, Mont., July, 1898. 



Aragallus Blankinshipii. Habit of the preceding, about 

 the same size, scapes less stout, branches of the caudex short, 

 clothed with brown bases of dead leaves : leaves loosely sericeous- 

 silky, crowded on the crowns, rather lax, on weak petioles, only 

 about half as long as the scapes : leaflets 11-17, approximate, 

 linear-oblong, acute at both ends, 12-16 mm. long: inflorescence 

 dense both in flower and in fruit, 8-12 flowered: calyx loosely 

 lanate-hirsute, a little more than half as long as the corolla, the 

 linear lobes more than half as long as the tube, inflated in fruit, 

 becoming sub-globose : corolla purple, about 20 mm. long, the wings 

 and standard rather deeply 2-lobed: bracts small, linear-lanceolate, 

 shorter than the calyx tube : pod wholly inclosed in the calyx, 

 small, 6-9 mm. long, narrowly elliptic, gradually acuminating into 

 the style, which barely protrudes from the narrow?' orifice of the 

 calyx, one-celled, slightly inflated but the walls firm. 



This species is in many respects comparable to the preceding but 

 the shorter, smaller and more crowded leaves, the smaller and more 

 villous leaflets, the less conspicuous stipules, the small bracts and 

 handsome purple flowers will at once distinguish it. Like the pre- 

 ceding, its calyx and fruit characters ally it to A. multiceps, though 

 in habit they both would rather suggest A. monticola. 



