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Acmispon sparsiflorus sp. nov. 
Annual, erect, rodm. high, sparingly branched from about 
the middle, the branches ascending and spreading with small, 
slender branchlets: stem purplish, naked and glabrous below, 
puberulent above: leaves subsessile, petioles barely 1mm. long 
and as wide; leaflets purplish, softly pubescent above, pale green 
and less pubescent beneath, the largest ones near the middle of 
the stem, the lateral ones oblong, oblique at base, 15 mm. long, 
g mim. wide, acute very shortly apiculate; terminal leaflets 12 to 
15mm. wide, their petiolules 5 mm. long: pedicels shorter than 
the subtending leaf, about 4mm. long: bract lanceolate, 3 or 4 
mm. long: calyx 7mm. long, the subulate-acuminate ciliate 
lobes 5 mm. long: corollas pink when dry; banner suborbicular, 
blade 8 mm. long and as broad, veined, claw 1.5mm. long, 0.5 
mm. wide at top, slightly narrowed at base; wings including 
claw 8mm. long, 4mm. wide, sharply auricled, slender claw 
1.5mm. long; keel 8mm. long, 2.5mm. deep at the middle, ven- 
tral side slightly curved, dorsal strongly so, apex acute: fruit 
not seen. 
The type; in the herbarium of A. A. Heller, is Hedler 58 34, 
collected July 2, 1902, on the banks of Russian river near Clo- 
verdale, Mendocino county, California. The species is remark- 
able for its few flowers, broad leaves, and exceedingly slender 
branchlets. 
Acmispon aestivalis sp. nov. 
Annual, lanate throughout, prostrate, branched from the 
base, the main branches 3 to 6dm. long, leafy: leaves subsessile; 
leaflets acute, shortly mucronate, the lateral ones ovate-elliptical, 
Icm. long, 5mm. wide, subsessile; terminal one 12 mm. long, 
6 or 7 min. wide, ovate, oblique, on petiolules about 3min. long: 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, rarely over 7mm. long, usu- 
ally shorter: calyx tube turbinate, 2mm. long, the subulate-acu- 
minate lobes 4mm. long, ciliate: corollas pinkish, 9mm. long, 
veined; banner suborbicular, blade 8mm. long and as _ broad, 
claw 1mm. long and nearly as broad at top, little narrowed at 
base; wings 7mm. long, 3mm. broad, auricled at base; keel 
