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Bange, Nevada, in Salt Lake Valley, and on Antelope Island, Utah ; 5,000 
feet altitude ; June. (250.) 
Dalea polydenia, Torr. MSS. "Stem shrubby with numerous divari- 
cate branches, clothed with a minute appressed whitish retrorse pubescence, 
and sprinkled with conspicuous elevated reddish glands; leaflets 11-13, orbicu- 
lar-obovate, somewhat retuse, hoary-pubescent both sides, sparingly glandular 
underneath ; flowers in dense oblong spikes ; teeth of the villous calyx subu- 
late, about as long as the tube. — A bushy plant 2-5° high, leaflets 2" long, 
thick and somewhat rigid ; spikes |' long ; flowers jiale purple ; petals mostly 
with an orange gland at the tip." Border of Truckee Desert, Nevada ; (W. 
W. Bailey;) 4,200 feet altitude; July, in flower and fruit; nearly leafless 
early in May. First collected by Dr. Torrey near Carson Desert. Plate 
IX. Fig, 1. Portion of a branch ; natural size. Fig. 2. A single flower, and 
its parts. Fig. 6. A nearly mature capsule ; all enlarged three diameters. 
(251.) 
Dalea Kingil SuflTrutescent-branched, glandular-punctate, somewhat 
silky -pubescent ; branches flexuose, leafy ; lateral branchlets short, (1' in 
length,) spinose, nearly naked ; leaves pinnate, 3-9-foliolate ; leaflets oval or 
oblong, (3-6'' long,) obtuse ; stipules small, setaceous ; flowers solitary on the 
branchlets, nearly sessile ; calyx-teetli equaling the campanulate obscurely 
10-ribbed tube, acute, the upper broadly triangular, the lower lanceolate ; petals 
bright blue, equal, nearly free ; the vexillum orbicular, emarginate ; stamens 
9 or 10 ; style hairy ; ovules not collateral ; pod oblong, (22" long,) pu- 
bescent. — Plant 1° high, much branched, yellowish-green throughout; glands 
greenish, rather obscure ; corolla 3-4'' long ; near D, Fre.montii. Found on 
drifted sands in the upper canons of the Hot Spring Mountains, Nevada ; 
7,000 feet altitude ; August. Plate X. Fig. 1. The extremity of a branch; 
natural size. Fig. 2. The parts of a flower. Fig. 3. A mature legume ; all 
magnified two diameters. (252.) 
Dalea Johnsoni. A diffusely branched shrub, with smooth gray 
sparingly glandular bark, the branches subspinescent at the extremities ; 
leaves 1-2' long, w iWi the branchlets appressed grayish-pubescent, petioled ; 
leaflets 5-11, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 3-6" long, acute or obtuse, 
with rather obscure greenish glands ; flowers in loose (1-3' long) racemes 
terminating the leafy branchlets, on very short (J-1" long) peduncles, de- 
flexed-secund, bracteate with 1-4 small subulate caducous bractlets ; calyx 
