60 BOTANY. 
stipules membranous, ovate, cuspidate ; peduncles very short, radical, umbel- 
lately about 3-flowered ; flowers large ; calyx canipanulate, teeth nearly equal, 
triangular- subnlate, shorter than the tube; vexillum broadly obovate, thrice the 
length of the calyx ; legnmc 4-5-seeded. — Alpine, 1-2' high ; flowers |' long, 
scarcely unfolding. Rocky Mountains of Colorado Uinta Mountains, 
Utah ; 12,000 feet altitude ; August. (240.) 
Tkifolium dasyphyllum, T. & G. Ca?spitose, more or less canescently 
silky; caudex short and thick, branching; leaflets linear or oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, entire ; stipules membranons, subulate-acuminate ; head globose, on a 
long radical peduncle, bracteate ; bracts lanceolate, scarious-margined, unequal ; 
calyx-teeth setaceous, nearly equal, exceeding the tube, a Httle shorter than 
the purple corolla ; legume 3-4-seeded. — Alpine ; peduncles 2-4' high, twice 
longer than the leaves ; corolla 4-6" long, scarcely unfolding. < Rocky Mount- 
ains of Colorado. Uinta Mountains, Utah; 11-12,000 feet altitude; 
August. (241.) 
Tkifolium Andinum, Kutt. Caespitose, silky-canescent ; caudex short 
and thick, branching ; leaflets rigid, cuneate-oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, 
strongly veined, (3-5" long ;) stipules broadly ovate, membranous, obtuse, gla- 
brous, ciliate ; peduncles radical, (1-2' high,) about equaling the leaves ; heads 
hemispherical, rather few-flowered, sessile between two opposite broadly 
stijuiled trifoliolate bracts ; calyx densely silky-villous with w4iite hairs ; 
teeth setaceous, longer than the tube, but shorter than the persistent (3-4' 
long) corolla ; ovxiry 3-4-0 vuled ; legume ovate, 1 -seeded. — Corolla 3-4" long, 
persistent. Summit of Cedar Mountain near Evanston, Utah ; 7,000 feet 
altitude ; in fruit, J uly. Collected by Kuttall in the Rocky Mountains, pro- 
bably in the same region. Plate VIII. Fig. 3. A plant ; natural size. 
Fig. 4. Tlie involucral bracts. Fig. 5. The calyx, expanded. Fig. 6. A 
matured capsule; all enlarged two diameters. (242.) 
Trifolium Andersonii, Gray. P? oc. Amer. Acad. 6. 522. Low, caespi- 
tose, very villous throughout with white silky hairs ; the In-anched caudex 
thick, woody, covered with rather large scarious stipules ; leaflets 4-6, (J' long,) 
oblong or obovate-cuneate, mucronate, entire; peduncles (lj-2'long) equaling 
the leaves; head globose, many-flowered ; flowers sessile ; calyx-teeth subulate- 
setaceous, rather longer than the campanulate tube ; corolla pink, (J' long,) 
not scarious ; ovary 5-ovuled ; legume globular, 1-2-seeded. Mountains 
near Carson City ; discovered by Dr. Anderson. 
