WOOTON" AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 371 



Probably the most abundant and widely scattered loco weed in the State. It 

 closely resembles Astragalus mollissimus. The type of Aragallus metcalfei was col- 

 lected in the Black Range (Metcalfe in 1904). 



5. Oxytropis pinetorum (Heller) Woot. & Standi. 

 Aragallus j)inetorum Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 548. 1899. 



Type locality: "On gravelly hills thinly clothed with pine trees, at a point 11 

 miles southeast of Santa Fe," New Mexico. Type collected by Heller (no. 3751). 



Range: New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Between Santa Fe and Canyoncito; near Clark; Burro Mountains; 

 Gray; White Mountains; Sierra Grande; Knowles; Redlands; Nara Visa; Pecos; Saw- 

 yers Peak. Mountains, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



6. Oxytropis vegana (Cockerell) Woot. & Standi. 

 Aragallus pinetorum veganus Cockerell, Torreya 2: 155. 1902. 

 Aragallus veganus Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 136. 1913. 



Type locality: Top of the Las Vegas Range, above Sapello Canyon, New Mexico. 

 Type collected by Fabidn Garcia, June 26, 1901. 



Range: Known only from the vicinity of the type locality. 



21. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Wild licorice. 



Erect glandular-punctate herbaceous perennial with more or less resinous, odd- 

 pinnate leaves and short axillary racemes of greenish white flowers; pods short, few- 

 seeded, covered with short hooked prickles. 



1. Glycyrrhiza lepidota Nutt. Gen. PI. 2: 106. 1818. 



Type locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 



Range: British America to Arkansas, New Mexico, and California. 



New Mexico: Zuni; San Juan; McCarthy Station; Ojo Caliente; Mogollou Moun- 

 tains; Mesilla Valley; Farmlngton ; Chama; Raton; Pecos; Albert. Wet ground, in the 

 Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



A common weed in cultivated ground and along ditch banks. 



22. ONOBRYCHIS L. 



Slender annual; leaves odd-pinnate, the leaflets cuneate-lanceolate, entire, gla- 

 brous; flowers purplish red, in elongate spikes; calyx 5-toothed; stamens diadelphous; 

 fruit a loment, 1 or 2-seeded, the joints spiny-toothed, pubescent. 



1. Onobrychis onobrychis (L.) Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 256. 1900. 



Sanfoin. 

 Hedysarum onobrychis L. Sp. PI. 751. 1753. 

 Onobrychis saliva Lam. in Lam. & DC. Franc;. 2: 652. 1778. 

 Type locality: European. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs (J. K. Metcalfe 5). 

 Often cultivated and ix)8sibly escaped here. 



23. MEIBOMIA Heist. Tick trefoil. 



Annual or perennial, erect or spreading herbs, usually slender, with pinnate 3- 

 foliolate stipulate leaves and elongated, sparsely flowered, terminal racemes; flowers 

 small, pale pink or darker, subtended by bracts; calyx 5-toothed; stamens diadel- 

 phous; fruit a loment with flattened, re ticulately veined, orbicular to elliptic segments. 



The plants of this genus are much prized by sheepmen because of their feeding 

 value. They occur mainly in the mountains in the timbered areas. 



