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inats. Peduncles slender, from almost none to 1-2 cm. long, about 3- 
flowered. Flowers purple, about 1 cm. long, the blades hardly 5 mm. 
long. Calyx teeth very variable but bracts and stipules elongated, the 
tube about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide. Pods broadly ovate, only ob- 
tuse, from 7 mm. long and lanceolate to arched into a circle and 1 cm. 
long, forming either a dense mass of wool or shortly and closely 
felted. Leaves nearly 3.cm. long, with petiole mostly longer than the 
rachis, Leaflets about 3 pairs, closely contiguous, cuneate-obovate, 
rounded and obtuse to apiculate, about 1 cm. long. This grows from 
Bear vailey in the San Bernardinos to Crook Co. Oregon and along 
the eastern slope of the Sierras, in gravel and sand, Middle Temperate 
life zone. , 
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