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mats. Peduncles slender, from almost none to 1-2 cm. long, about 3- 

 ilowered. Flowers purple, about 1 cm. long, the blades hardly 5 mm. 

 long. Caly.K teeth very variable but bracts and stipules elongated^ the 

 tube about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide. Pods broadly ovate, only' ob- 

 tuse, from 7 mm. long and lanceolate to arched into a circle and 1 cm. 

 long, forming either a dense mass of wool or shortly and closely 

 lekcd. Leaves nearly 3 cm. long, with petiole mostly longer than the 

 racliis. Leaflets about 3 pairs, closely contiguous, cuneate-obovate, 

 rounded and obtuse to apiculate, about 1 cm. long. This grows from 

 r>ear valley in the San Bernarrlinos to Crook Co. Oregon and along 

 the eastern slope of the Sierras, in gravel and sand, Middle Temperate 

 life zone. 





