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NOYITATES OCCIDENTALES.— VIII. 



By Edward L. Gbbbne. 



Trifolium Monoense. Low cespitose perennial of the 



Lupinasier group : stem, of many branches clothed with per- 

 sistent stipules of former seasons, almost subterranean and 

 caudex-like : petioles slender ; leaflets 4 to 6, pale green, 

 sparsely appressed-villous, narrowly oblong-cuneiform, nearly 

 entire, cuspidately mucronate : peduncles slender, far sur- 

 passing the leaves ; heads hemispherical, | inch broad ; calyx 

 Yery densely villous, the setaceous teeth longer than the short- 



cylindraceous tube. , 



In the White Mountains, Mono Co., California, Shockley, 

 n. 460, collected 22 July, 1886. Species distributed as a 

 variety of T. Anderso^iii, though as nearly related to T. an- 

 dmum as to any ; but that has three leaflets only, and heads 

 sessile between a pair of leaves. 



Trifolium productum 



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feet high, glabrous, pale and glaucescent, sparingly leafy : 

 lowest leaflets from oval to oblong, seldom obtuse, those of 

 the stem 1 to IJ inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 lacerately serrate : heads mostly solitary and terminal, semi- 

 ovate or obconical by deflection of the pedicels the rachis 

 produced strongly beyond the flowers and terminally cleft into 

 several uncinate branches, the whole resembling a grappling 



hook. 



Mount 



County. It has been referred 



King 



distinguished 



all its own. T. Bolanderi is a rare, and probably quite 

 local plant, and has not, to my knowledge, been collected ex- 

 cept by Bolander himself. It is a low slender flaccid cespi- 

 tose plant of deep green hue, with short obcordate leaflets, 

 and very slender scapiform peduncles, each bearing a few- 

 flowered umbel, the flowers being much smaller than m the 

 present plant. 



