100 BOTANY, 
Dates Jamesu, Torr. & Gray (FI. i, 308).—Densely appressed-silky, 
the somewhat decumbent stems 2 to 4 inches high from a branching woody 
base: leaflets 3, oblanceolate or oblong, half an inch long, equalling the 
petioles: spikes sessile, ovate to oblong, rather dense, very villous with 
long silky hairs; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about equalling the long 
plumose calyx-teeth, which much exceed the tube: petals yellowish or rose- 
colored, 5 lines long, scarcely exceeding the calyx.—_New Mexico; western 
part of the Territory, Loew (189), locality not given. 
Dates Wistizens, Gray (Pl. Fendl. 32)—Shrubby, with slender vir- 
gate branches, pubescent, a foot high or more: leaflets 7 to 9 pairs, oblong, 
obtuse, smoother above, 2 lines long or less: spikes short-ovate or oblong, 
dense, long-pedunculate, silky-villous ; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
equalling the calyx: teeth of the calyx setaceous, plumose, a little longer 
than the tube, with a narrow tooth on each side: petals rose-colored, 4 or 5 
lines long, twice longer than the calyx, with solitary glands near the top.— 
New Mexico to Sonora; Southern Arizona, Rothrock (594). 
Dates Formosa, Torrey (Emory’s Rept. 138, t. 1)—A low shrub, 1 
to 3 feet high, with spreading flexuous branches, glabrous or nearly so: 
leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, cuneate-oblong, rarely 2 lines long, often very small and 
revolute: flowers few and spreading, in short spikes; bracts caducous: 
calyx very silky-villous, the setaceous plumose teeth longer than the tube 
and nearly equalling the corolla: petals deep rose-color, very unequal, the 
keel half an inch long.—New oe and Arizona; Camp Bowie, Roth- 
rock (450). 
Daya Fremonti, Torrey (Gray, Pl. Thurb. 316).—In Southern 
Nevada, 1871; it has also been found in Southern Utah. 
Hepysarum Macxenzu, Richardson (Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 357).—In 
the Rocky Mountains of British America and southward to Wyoming and 
Utah; in the Wahsatch, 1871. 
ZORNIA* DIPHYLLA, Persoon. (Z. reticulata, Smith.)—Slender, erect or 
* Zornia, Gmelin.—Calyx membranaceons, the two upper lobes connate, the lateral ones much 
smaller. Standard orbicular. Stamens united into a closed tube; alternate anthers shorter and versa- 
tile. Style filiform. Stigma terminal. Pod etek ee jointed, the indehiscent joints rounded, 
usually hispid. poten, mostly anonal, with palmately 2-4 t ers 
yellow, solitary arge foliaceous stipular bracts, forming an interrupted ak — 
BENTH. & Hoox., Gen. Pl. i, 518, 
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