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ALPINE OXYTROPE 



Oxytropis viscida. Pea Family 



Stems: viscid-pubescent. Leaves: odd-pinnate; leaflets in numerous 

 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute. Flowers: peduncles longer 

 than the leaves ; spikes subcylindrical ; teeth of the calyx subulate, about 

 the length of the tube ; legumes short, terete, acuminate. 



As remarked before, Oxytivpis differs from Astragalus 

 in having flowers with very pointed keels and long naked 

 flower-stalks that grow up directly from the base of the plant ; 

 also its flower-spikes are more elongated than those of the 

 Ascending and Purple Vetches, which are roundish. The 

 Alpine Oxytrope is a hairy, rather sticky plant, and bears 

 blossoms of many shades of gray-blue, violet, mauve, purple, 

 and creamy white. 



SHOWY OXYTROPE 



Oxytropis splendens. Pea Family 



Densely silvery, silky villous, acaulescent, tufted. Leaves: long, erect ; 

 leaflets very numerous. Flowers : in dense spikes ; peduncles exceeding 

 the leaves. Fruit : pods ovoid, erect. 



This plant is rightly named the Showy Oxytrope, for its 

 handsome bright purple-blue or purple-pink flowers, growing 

 in dense spikes on the top of the long straight stalks, and its 

 quantity of silvery silky foliage render it a remarkably hand- 

 some member of the Pea Family. The whole plant, including 

 the stalks, leaves, and calyx, is extremely woolly. 



PURPLE HEDYSARUM 



Hedysartim boreale. Pea Family 



Stems: erect, glabrous, generally simple. Leaves: odd-pinnate, short- 

 petioled ; leaflets oblong, obtuse, and often mucronate at the apex. 

 Flowers: in long loose racemes, deflexed. 



A tall purple species of Hedysarum with very narrow loosely 

 flowered racemes and rather large leaflets. The white species, 



