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TRIFOLIUM NEOLAGOPUS Loja. 
T: albouprpureum var. neolagopus McDermott 
Annual, villous throughout, with ovate-conical heads and 
inconspicuous flowers equaling or extending very slightly be- 
yond the calyx teeth. It is found only in the southern counties 
of California. 
Annual, villous or somewhat glabrate in age, erect or 
spreading, much branched: stems hollow when young: inter- 
nodes long: lower leaves few, obovate-cuneate; cauline long pet- 
ioled, oblong, uppermost sessile, acute, serrulate: stipules mem- 
braneous, nerved, ovate, linear subulate, setaceous: peduncles 
nodding and short before anthesis, afterwards prolonged and 
erect: flowers numerous in the head: heads large, globose-hem- 
ispherical in flower and ovate conical in fruit, densely cinereous 
villous: calyx subcoriaceous, tube very short, about Imm. long 
with 10 prominent dark nerves, villous; teeth 5mm. long, tri- 
angular at base, becoming linear, setacecus, densely covered with 
long silvery hairs (brown in old specimens): corolla in flower 
equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx teeth, in fruit dried up, 
twisted and shrunken; vexillum elliptical, obtuse, 6mm. long, 
2.5mm. wide, apex irregularly and finely dentate, obtuse, ame- 
thyst Llue below, shading to light blue (in dried specimens or 
old flowers appearing brownish white at apex); wings acumi- 
nate, dark purple, slightlv shorter than the vexilluin: ovary 
with a few long hairs at the apex: style long, stigma capitate: 
legume t-seeded, membranaceous, striate: seeds oval, shiny, 
olive green to yellow, irregularly mottled with dark purple, 
2.1mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide. 
This species does not vary to the extent of columbznum, and 
is confined to the southern counties of California. The type was 
collected by Mrs. Elwood Cooper in the Santa Ynez mountains, 
Santa Barbara county, in 1876. The following collections will 
indicate its distribution: 
Kern county: Near Caliente- Heller 7626, San Emigdio 
canyon, Davy 19837, Keene Station, Heller 7800; Tehachapi, 
Feller 7835; Fort Tejon, Davy 2360. 
Fresno county: Near Pollasky, Heller 8152. 
