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Probably the most abundant and widely scattered loco weed in the State. It 

 closely resembles Astragalus mollissimus. The type of Aragallus metcal/ei was col- 

 lected in the Black Range (Metcalfe in 1904). 



5. Oxytropis pinetorum (Heller) Woot. & Standi. 

 Aragallus pinetorum Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 548. 1899. 



Type locality: "On gravelly hills thinly clothed with pine trees, at a point 11 

 miles southeast of Santa Fe," New Mexico. Type collected by Heller (no. 3751). 



Range: New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Between Santa Fe and Canyoncito; near Clark; Burro Mountains; 

 Gray; White Mountains; Sierra Grande; Knowles; Redlands; Nara Visa; Pecos; Saw- 

 yers Peak. Mountains, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



6. Oxytropis vegana (Cockerell) Woot. & Standi. 

 Aragallus pinetorum veganus Cockerell, Torreya 2: 155. 1902. 

 Aragallus veganus Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 136. 1913. 



Type locality: Top of the Las Vegas Range, above Sapello Canyon, New Mexico. 

 Type collected by Fabian Garcia, June 26, 1901. 



Range: Known only from the vicinity of the type locality. 



21. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Wild licorice. 



Erect glandular-punctate herbaceous perennial with more or less resinous, odd- 

 pinnate leaves and short axillary racemes of greenish white flowers; pods short, few- 

 seeded, covered with short hooked prickles. 



1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Nutt. Gen. PI. 2: 106. 1818. 



Type locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 



Range: British America to Arkansas, New Mexico, and California. 



New Mexico: Zuni; San Juan; McCarthy Station; Ojo Caliente; Mogollon Moun- 

 tains; Mesilla Valley; Farmington ; Chama; Raton; Pecos; Albert. Wet ground, in the 

 Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



A common weed in cultivated ground and along ditch banks. 



22. ONOBRYCHIS L. 



Slender annual; leaves odd-pinnate, the leaflets cuneate-lanceolate, entire, gla- 

 brous; flowers purplish red, in elongate spikes; calyx 5-toothed; stamens diadelphous; 

 fruit a loment, 1 or 2-seedcd, the joints spiny-toothed, pubescent. 



1. Onobrychis onobrychis (L.) Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 256. 1900. 



Sanfoin. 

 Hcdysarum onobrychis L. Sp. PI. 751. 1753. 

 Onobrychis sativa Lam. in Lam. & DC. Franc. 2: 652. 1778. 

 Type locality: European. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs (J. K. Metcalfe 5). 

 Often cultivated and possibly escaped here. 



23. MEIBOMIA Heist. Tick trefoil. 



Annual or perennial, erect or spreading herbs, usually slender, with pinnate 3- 

 foliolate stipulate leaves and elongated, sparsely flowered, terminal racemes; Sowen 

 small, pale pink <>r darker, subtended by bracts; calyx 6-toothed; Btamens diadel- 

 phous; fruit a loment with flattened, return lately veined, orbicular to elliptic segments. 



The plants of this ^enus are mueh prized by sheepmen because of their I ling 



value. They occur mainly in the mountains in the timbered areas. 



