249 Galegiformes. ~ 
12-15 pairs, smooth on the upper side. Stipules ovate, not connate, 
much acuminate. Stems very stout and strict 2-3 ft. high, nearly 
simple, with internodes several times shorter than the leaves, several 
from thick and rather woody roots. Plants much infested by in- 
sects and fungi. Pubescence shaggy all over except on the shining 
and smooth pods and calyx. Grows in gravelly places and clay 
land in the upper edge of the Lower and throughout the Middle 
Temperate life zone. Blooms in late summer. From the Plains of 
Central Colorado at least as far south as Wet Mountain Valley to 
the Saskatchewan, westward to head of Salina canon and near 
Provo, Utah, to Deer Lodge Valley, Montana. Rare in Utah. 
