98 BOTANY. 
linear-oblong, 1 to 3 lines long, acute: peduncles as long as the leaves, 
about 2-flowered: calyx becoming inflated and globose in fruit; teeth not 
equalling the tube: corolla purple, half an inch long: pods included in the 
calyx, ovate, partially 2-celled by the intrusion of the ventral suture, shortly 
Stipitate, very pubescent—Colorado; at Gold Hill, Wolf (213). 
OxyTROPIS DEFLEXA, DC. (Prodr. ii, 280)—Caulescent, erect, often 
a foot high or more, silky-villous: leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, oblong-ovate or 
lanceolate, acute, half an inch long: flowers small, purple, in at length elon- 
gated spikes on very long peduncles: calyx-teeth as long as the tube and 
equalling the corolla: pod coriaceous, linear-oblong, 6-8 lines long, reflexed, 
pubescent, partially 2-celled by the intruded ventral suture.—In the Rocky 
Mountains from the Saskatchewan to New Mexico ; South Park, Wolf 
(217). | 
GLYCYRRHIZA LEPIDOTA, Nutt.—From Washington Territory to Hudson 
Bay and southward to Nevada, New Mexico, and Arkansas; at Covero, 
N. Mex., Rothrock (106), in the valley of the Upper Arkansas, Colorado, 
Wolf (190), also in Nevada and Utah, 1871 and 1872. 
PsoRaLEa LANCEOLATA, Pursh (Flora, 475).—Frequent from Wash- 
ington Territory to Northern Arizona, and eastward to Nebraska; at 
Denver, Wolf (181). 
PsoraLeA FLORIBUNDA, Nutt. (Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 300).—Resem- 
bling the last, more or less canescent, with short white appressed hairs : 
petioles mostly very short: peduncles exceeding the leaves, and flowers 
on short slender pedicels: calyx-teeth acute—From Texas to Western 
Arizona; Neutria, N. Mex., Rothrock (145), and in Eastern Arizona, Loew 
(858). . 
ParrYELLa* Fitiro.ia, Torr. & Gray.—Puberulent or nearly glabrous, 
diffusely branched, apparently a foot high or more: leaves 2 or 3 inches 
long; leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, linear-revolute, 3 or 4 lines long, with acute 
glandular stipules: spikes slender; bracts very small, acute: calyx nearly 
* PARRYELLA, Torr. & Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 397.—Calyx obconical, persistent ; teeth short, 
nearly equal. Petals wanting. Stamens 10, distinct, inserted on the base of the calyx; anthers uni- 
_ form. Ovary 2-ovuled. Pod indehiscent, obliquely obovate, exserted, 1-seeded, glandular-dotted.—A low 
shrub, with numerous slender branches, sparingly glandular-punctate; leaves unequally pinnate, with 
glandular stipules ; leaflets numerous, linear, stipellate ; flowers spicate on terminal peduncles, 
