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mm. in length by 1 mm. broad, the two outer or lower slightly 

 shorter and broader: corolla white; standard about 15 mm. long, 

 unguiculate, oblong-obovate, deeply emarginate ; wings somewhat 

 two-lobed above : legume cylindrical, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, firm in 

 texture, externally appressed-canescent-pubescent with dark hairs 

 intermixed, distinctly 2-celled, especially below ; stipe short but 

 distinct. Collected by W. C. Cusick, on the alpine summits of 

 the Wallowa Mountains, E. Oregon, 1891, no. 1365, and 23 

 August, 1898, no. 2095. A species having the general habit of 

 0. Parryi, and 0. oreophila, Gray, but readily distinguished from 

 the former by the more numerously flowered scape, the less 

 obovate rotund and more strongly emarginate standard, and 

 usually larger seeds, and from the latter by the longer flowers and 

 larger and firmer 2-celled legume. 



Emmenanthe pusilla. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 87, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 515, & Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1. 171. This species hitherto 

 recorded from Nevada only, through the collections of Lemmon 

 and Watson, is also well represented by specimens collected by 

 William C. Cusick in alkaline soil. Union County, Oregon, no. 

 758 (coll. 1879) and by specimens secured by the same collector on 

 the Malheur, 20 June, 1898, no. 1946. 



Conanthus parviflorus. Low depressed annual, branching 

 from the base, covered throughout with a scattered spreading coarse 

 hirsute pubescence : branches repeatedly dichotomous, prostrate or 

 ascending, [2 to 15 cm. long: leaves spatulate-linear or narrowly 

 oblanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. broad, acute or obtuse, 

 with a rather prominent midrib beneath: flowers sessile, solitary in 

 the axils: calyx deeply 5-parted; lobes lance-linear, 3 to 4 mm. long, 

 hirsute-hispid with long spreading hairs: corolla purplish or light 

 blue, soon fading, tubular, less than 5 mm. in length, barely exceed- 

 ing the calyx: style about 1 mm. long united to near the top, 

 stigmas capitate: capsule oblong, 2.5 mm. long, hirsute-pubescent 

 above, about 15-seeded. A species of the dry sandy plains of the 

 northwest: Oregon in sandy soil of the Malheur, 21 June, 1898j 

 William C. Cusick, no. 1957, and in the same region, collection of 

 1885, no. 1231, on sage plains, 16 June, 1885, Thomas Howell, no. 

 492; Washington, near Wallula, June, 1883, T. S. Brandegee, no. 

 978, near Morgan's Ferry, Yakima River, 8 June, 1884, W, N. 



