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ribus remotis; pcdunculis folio longioribus; racemis multifloris; floribus decurvis majusculis 

 (ochroleucis seu albidis) ; Ieguminibus elongatis lanccolatis membranaceis glabris turgidis 

 rectis utrinque acutatis in stipitem caljce cylindraeeo longiorem attenuatis polyspermis. — 

 Rocky declivities, near Santa Fe ; June. — Root apparently perennial. Plant one or two 

 feet high, much branched, cinereous with a very minute appressed pubescence. In ap- 

 pearance the foliage is intermediate between that of P. pectinata and P. podocarpa ; but 

 the leaflets are much fewer than in either; more frequently only two or three, scattered 

 along the flattened rachis. They are distinctly articulated, from half to three fourths of 

 an inch long and about half a line wide. Flowers nearly as in P. pectinata, but the calyx 

 is not dark-haired. The pods (which are not quite mature) are two inches long, includ- 

 ing the stipe, apparently terete, and two lines in diameter, of a thin membranaceous tex- 

 ture, with neither suture introflexed, about 20-seeded. 



161. P. picta (sp. nov.) : annua, humilis, undique strigoso-incana ; caulibus ramo- 

 sis diffusis ; stipulis triangulari-subulatis majusculis; foliolis 4-7-jugis anguste lincaribus 

 obtusis ; racemis folio subbrevioribus 7-15-floris; dentibus calycis setaceis tubo vix 

 brevioribus (corolla rosea vel albida, carina scepius purpureo tincta) ; Ieguminibus ovalibus 

 obtusis rectis membranaceis inflatis glabris purpureo-pictis brevitcr stipitatis oligospermis. 

 — Loose, sandy soil on the banks of the Rio del Norte, especially among low shrubs; 

 April (in flower) and June (in fruit). — Allied to P. longifolia, P. annua, Geyer, P. Hook- 

 eriana, &c, and with the same beautifully mottled legumes. The appressed hairs, which 

 render the plant quite hoary throughout, are attached by a point below their middle. 

 Stems 5 to 9 inches high, often branched from a straggling or creeping base, which has 

 apparently been covered with loose sand. Leaflets one half to three fourths of an inch 

 long, sometimes almost filiform. Flowers spreading, one fourth of an inch long, the 

 young fruit pendulous. Pods three fourths of an inch long, very obtuse, straight, on a 

 stipe about the length of the calyx. The flowers are twice as large as those of P. graci- 

 lenta, no. 159; which are pubescent and not stipitate nor mottled. 



f 162. Desmodium sessilifolium, Torr. &■ Gray, Fl. 1. p. 363. One hundred miles 

 west of Independence, Missouri. 



1 163. D. Dillenii, Darlingt. Fl. Cest. p. 414; Torr. & Gray, Fl. I. c. With the last. 

 164. Lespedeza capitata, Michx. Dry prairies, Kansas River. 



f 165. L. repens, Torr. #• Gray, I. c. p. 366. Near Fort Leavenworth. 



y 166. Lupinus decumbens, Torr. in Ann. Lye. New York, 2. p. 191. Var. argo- 



phyllus : caule foliisque argyreo-sericeis, supra viridiusculis. — Plains, around Santa Fe ; 



May to June, in flower ; June to Aug., in fruit. — A foot high, a silvery white, species ; 



more so than in the original specimens of L. decumbens, which, imperfect as they are, I 



