249 Galegiformes. ' 



12-15 pairs, smooth on the upper side. Stipules ovate, not connate, 

 much acuminate. Stems very stout and strict 2-3 ft. high, nearly 

 simple, with internodes several times shorter than the leaves, several 

 from thick and rather woody roots. Plants much infested by in- 

 sects and fungi. Pubescence shaggy all over except on the shining 

 and smooth pods and calyx. Grows in gravelly places and clay 

 land in the upper edge of the Lower and throughout the Middle 

 Temperate life zone. Blooms in late summer. From the Plains of 

 Central Colorado at least as far south as Wet Mountain Valley to 

 the Saskatchewan, westward to head of Salina canon and near 

 Provo, Utah, to Deer Lodge Valley, Montana. Rare in Utah. 



