162 A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF THE BASIN OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. 
GLycyRRuHIZA lepidota, Nutt. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1,249. (Liquorice.) Stems 2—4 feet high; 
flowers whitish, in pedunculate spikes; legume densely beset with prickles; root long, 
creeping, with the taste of liquorice. Northern extremity of the Great Salt Lake, Col. 
Fremont. : 
ASTRAGALUS adsuxgens, Pall. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 330. (Milk-Vetch.) Stem elon- 
gated, ascending or prostrate; leaflets 7—12 pairs, oblong, obtuse, pale green; flower 
white shaded with purple. Western Shore of the Great Salt Lake, Maj. Stansbury. 
A. . . . . Beckwithii, Torr. in Lt. Beckwith’s Rep., p. 120. Stems branching 
from the base, slender, 6—8 inches high; peduncles about the length of the leaves, 5—7 
flowered ; calyx oblong, campanulate, with subulate teeth. South of the Great Salt Lake, 
Lt. Beckwith; and Eastern Valley, Mrs. Carrington. 
A. . . . . FPurshii, Dougl. in Hook., fl. Bor. Am. 1, p. 152. Phaca mollissima, 
Natt. in Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 350. Almost stemless, densely covered with white silky 
hairs. Leaves petiolate; leaflets 4—6 pairs, ovate, obtuse; peduncles shorter than the 
leaves, three to five-flowered; flowers pale-purple, one inch or more in length, the calyx 
about two-thirds the length of the corolla; pods rather large, covered with fine yellowish- 
white wool. May. Mrs. Carrington. 
A. . . . . Utahensis, Torr. in Beckw. Rep., p. 120. Phaca mollissima. : Var. 
Utahensis, Torr. in Stansb. Rep., p. 585, fig. 2. Densely white-tomentose; stems decum- 
bent, short, Torr. (in my specimens 6—8 inches long;) leaflets 6—9 pairs, broadly ovate, or 
nearly orbicular; peduncles equalling, or generally exceeding the leaves; subcapitulately 
three to six-flowered; flowers rather large, violet-purple. Legume sessile, extremely 
woolly, strictly one-celled. Shores and Islands of the Great Salt Lake, Maj. Stansbury, 
Lt. Beckwith, and Mrs. Carrington who remarks that it flowers several times a season. 
A. . . .  . diphysus? Gray, Pl. Fendl., p. 34. Torr. in Beckw. Rep., p. 120. 
‘Only in flower, not accurately determined.” South-western end of the Great Salt Lake, 
Lt. Beckwith. 
A. . . . . Specimens in a bad state, and too young. Stems slightly pilose, seve- 
ral from the same root, 4—6 inches high; leaflets 7—10 pairs, small, obtuse or emarginate ; 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-flowered. Great Salt Lake Valley, Mrs. Carring- 
ton. 
Hepysarum boreale? Nutt.Gen. 2, p. 100. Torr. & Gr. fl. 1, p. 356. (Sainfoin.) I 
cannot but consider HZ. boreale & H. canescens of Nuttall, and H. Mackensii of Richardson, 
as forms of the same species, which it is impossible to separate. Mrs. Carrington’s speci- 
mens seem to be larger than any heretofore described. She remarks that her plant is 2 feet 
high, but from the long decumbent branches, at least 15 inches in length, which she has sent, 
Tshould judge it must be somewhat higher. The whole plant is glaucous, slightly canescent 
