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always apiculate and mostly acute, those of the lowest leaves often 

 elliptical and 1 cm. long, the upper and latest leaves having leaflets 

 5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, minutely ashy with the same peculiar ap- 

 pressed pubescence. Stems rarely a foot long, ascending, very stout 

 and with short internodes and many leaves, flexuous or zigzag, woody 

 and from a thick woody root. On barren clay slopes on the Grand 

 River near Cisco Utah and the La Sal Mts. Lower Temperate life 

 zone. The flowers are the coarsest in the genus in America and the 

 largest but not the longest. The outer stems often nearly flat on the 

 ground. 



