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1. Thermopsis pinetorum Greene, Pittonia 4: 138. 1900. 

 Type locality: Below Marshall Pass, Colorado. 

 Range: Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Agua Fria; Sandia 

 Mountains; Mogollon Mountains. Woods, in the Transition Zone. 



2. Thermopsis divaricarpa A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 25: 275. pi. lS.f. 3. 1898. 

 Type locality: Pole Creek, Wyoming. 



Range: Wyoming to northern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sierra Grande (Standley 6140). Meadows, in the Transition Zone. 



2. SOPHORA L. 



Low pubescent perennial herbs with pinnate many-foliolate leaves and dense 

 racemes of white or blue flowers; stamens 10, the filaments distinct or nearly so; pods 

 thick, torulose, tardily dehiscent. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaflets linear; flowers blue 1. S. stenophylla. 



Leaflets oblong or oblong-obovate; flowers white or nearly so 2. S. sericea. 



1. Sophora stenophylla A. Gray in Ives, Rep. Colo. Riv. 4: 10. 1861. 

 Type locality: "Oryabe," Arizona. 



Range: Southern Utah to northern Arizona and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sia: San Andreas Mountains. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. Sophora sericea Nutt. Gen. PI. 1: 280. 1818. 



Type locality: "On the elevated plains of the Missouri, near the confluence of 

 White River." 



Range: Wyoming and South Dakota to Arizona and Texas. 



New Mexico: Espanola; Coolidge; Cross L Ranch; Las Vegas; Hebron; Zuni; 

 Clayton; Raton; Nara Visa; San Marcial; Mangas Springs; Dog Spring; Mesilla Valley; 

 Gray; Gavilan Canyon. Dry fields and plains, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



3. BROTTSSONETIA Orteg. 



A shrub or small tree, the leaves with 7 to 13 leathery oblong leaflets; flowers in 

 dense racemes; pods 5 to 10 cm. long, 3 or 4-seeded, the seeds scarlet. 



1. Broussonetia secu.ndifl.ora Orteg. Hort. Matr. Dec. 61. pi. 7. 1798. 



Sophora secundijlora Lag.; DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 148. 1813. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Nova Ilispania." 



Range: Western Texas and southern New Mexico, south to Mexico. 



New Mexico: Dark Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains ( Wooton). Dry hills. 



This beautiful evergreen shrub with glossy dark green leaves is well worth culti- 

 vation. If once established it would probably endure the very trying conditions of 

 low altitudes in the southern part of the State'. Itgrows naturally in crevices of lime- 

 stone cliffs and probably would need an open soil containing considerable disinte- 

 grated limestone. Its large scarlet beans arc said to be poisonous, which would be 

 a drawback to its use as a decorative plant. 



4. CROTALARIA L. Rattlebox. 



A diffuse annual, nearly glabrous, with trifoliolate petioled leaves and El w- 

 flowered racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves; banner large, cordate; stamens 

 monadelphous, the anthers of two kinds; pods short, oblong, inflated, puberulent 



1. Crotalaria lupulina II. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 402. pi 590. L823. 

 Type locality: "Creecitinmonteignivomo Jondlo, alt. 570 hexap.," Mexico. 

 Range: New Mexico and Arizona, south into Mexico, 

 New Mexico: Southern Grant County. Lower and Upper Sonoran lones. 



