265 Hamosi. '^■ 



late, 2 mm. long. Pedicels 2 mm. long, rather stout, spreading in 

 flower and reflexed in fruit, nigrescent. Bracts subulate, 2-3 mm. 

 long. Peduncles coarsely sulcate, about as thick as the stems, erect, 

 1 ft. long, few-flowered on the upper one-third. Leaves 1 cm. long, 

 appressed, mostly clustered at tip of stems by shortening of upper 

 internodes; petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long. Leaflets 10-14 pairs, el- 

 liptical-oblong, obtuse to retuse, 1 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, long- 

 petiolulate, opposite, gradually reduced above the middle of the 

 rachis, flat, somewhat distant. Stipules triangular, adnate, not con- 

 nate, about 2 mm. long. Stems many, rather slender, ascending from 

 crown of root, coarsely sulcate, abruptly bent at each node from 

 which a peduncle arises, proper stems of few nodes which are close 

 together, then with 2-3 which are 3-7 cm. apart; root stout and 

 erect; plants about a foot and a half high. Lake Waha Nez Perce 

 Co. Idaho by A. A. Heller for whom it was named. Middle Tem-i 

 perate life zone. Blooms in June. 



