418 Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 



Hovialolnis caniporiim Rydb. loc. cit., in part. 



Perennial with a cespitose caudex ; stems decumbent, about i 

 dm. high, strigose ; leaves 5—8 cm. long ; stipules ovate, scari- 

 ous, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets 9-15, elliptic to linear, 5-15 mm. 

 long, 1-3 mm. wide, glabrous above, sparingly strigose beneath ; 

 peduncles 4-6 cm. long ; racemes short, 3— 8-flowered ; calyx 

 strigose with black hairs; tube campanulate, about 2 mm. long; 

 teeth about i mm. long, subulate ; pod sessile, strigose, straight, 

 12-18 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. 



This species is intermediate between H. oblongifoliits Rydb. and 

 H. divergcns (VA'A.wVxw^hx-^) Rydb. Baker's specimens from North 

 Park were referred to the latter, which the present species resem- 

 bles in general habit and the pod ; but it is a greener plant, the 

 leaflets being glabrous above and only slightly strigose beneath. 

 The smaller size, and the smaller pod of a different shape, separate 

 it from H. oblongifoliiis. 



Colorado : East slope of Rabbit Ear Range, 1894 (type dis- 

 tributed from the State Agricultural College of Colorado, collector 

 not given); Forks of Poudre and Big South, 1894 ; North Park, 

 1897, C. F. Baker ; Steamboat Springs, 1903, Ostcrhoiit 2'/'/^. 



Homalobus paucijugus sp. nov. 



Perennial with a cespitose caudex, bushy ; stems 1-2 dm. 

 high, sparingly strigose; leaves numerous, 5-10 cm. long; leaf- 

 lets 1-5, the lateral ones lanceolate to linear-subulate, i cm. or 

 less long, glabrous above, sparingly strigose beneath, or none ; 

 the terminal one 1-2 cm. long, linear or linear-oblanceolate, grad- 

 ually tapering into the rachis ; stipules scarious, ovate, 2-3 mm. 

 long ; peduncles 3-6 cm. long ; racemes short, 3-6-flowered ; 

 calyx strigose with black hairs ; tube campanulate, about 2 mm. 

 long; teeth subulate, fully i mm. long; legume 12-15 """n^- lo"g' 

 2 mm. wide, straight, strigose. 



This species resembles H. dccurrcns in the peculiar terminal 

 leaflet, but differs in the few small and narrow lateral leaflets, the 

 small size of the plant, the small flowers and the small pod. It 

 grows at an altitude of nearly 3000 m. 



Utah : Big Cottonwood Canon, in sheltered places near the 

 summit of the divide between Lake Solitude and Twin Lakes, 

 1905, A. O. Garrett 1^80. 



The species confused with H. teiiellus and usually included in 

 it may be distinguished by the following characters : 



