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always apiculate and mostly acute, those of the lowest leaves often 
elliptical and 1 cm. long, the upper. and latest leaves having leaflets 
5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, minutely ashy with the same peculiar ap- 
pressed pubescence. Stems rarely a foot long, ascending, very stout 
and with short internodes and many leaves, flexuous or zigzag, woody 
and from a thick woody root. On barren clay slopes on the Grand 
River near Cisco Utah and the La Sal Mts. Lower Temperate life 
zone. The flowers are the coarsest in the genus in America and the 
largest but not the longest. The outer stems often nearly flat on the 
ground, , ' 
