Mr. Douglas found it abundantly upon the gravelly 

 banks of the southern tributaries of the Columbia, and in 

 barren ground in the interior of California. 



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A hardy annual, flowering from May to July. Our 

 drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society in 1828. 



" Annual. Root fibrous, with warty, fleshy tubercles. 

 Stem erect, branching, about a foot high, with short white 

 downy hairs. Leaves digitate, with subulate, dark stipules. 

 Leaflets 5-7, linear-spatulate, smooth above, ciliate, with 

 minute, short, fine hairs below, thick and fleshy, three- 

 fourths of an inch long. Flowers partly whorled, few, 

 sessile. Bractece subulate, pilose, darker than the leaves. 

 Calyx silky, upper lip bifid, under entire, Vexillum ovate, 

 blue, white in the centre, with two or four parallel black 

 dots. Alee oblong, same length as the vexillum ; keel fal- 

 cate, acute. Legumen linear-oblong, with transverse fur- 

 rows, 5 or 6-seeded. Seeds large, brownish gray, mottled." 



— Douglas. 



J. L. 



