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is more likely to be T. Rusbyi, as it comes from Bill Williams 

 mountain, Arizona. The description in Ives Report 9. i860, 

 has nothing in common with T. latifolinm. 



When T. orbiculatum Kennedy & McDermott was described 

 we were not aware of the variations of T. latifolinm, especially 

 at the different stages of growth. W 7 e distinguished T. orbicu- 

 latum from T. latifolinm by the shape and texture of the leaves, 

 but the variations are so great in this respect in the specimens 

 we have on hand that we are now inclined to place very little 

 weight on these characters. The length of the pedicels also de- 

 pends very much upon the age of the flower. Until more speci- 

 mens can be secured, we must consider T. orbiculatum a syno- 

 nym of T. latifolinm. 

 Specimens examined — 



Idaho 



Kootenai county: Clarkia, Elmer 1328; in copses, Sand- 

 berg, July, 1887. 



Nez Pkrces county: Lake Waha, Heller 3273. 



Palouse country and about Lake Coeur d'Alene, Alton 63 

 (type of T. Alton ii ). 



Montana 

 Thompson Falls, Blankinship 6 (type of T. orbiculatum). 



Oregon 

 Canyons of the Wallowa, in shade, Cusick 1363. 



Washington 

 Spokane county: Low grounds, Suksdorfgi8. 



Watson, in his Bibliographical Index to North American 

 Botany, 264, printed the name "7! longipes var brachypus" but 

 without reference to any description, making it a nomen nudum. 

 Blankinship, in Montana Agr. Coll. Sci. .Studies 1 : Si. 1905, 



ribed briefly a plant collected in alpine situations near melt- 

 ing snow, head of Cottonwood creek, Tobacco Root Range, 9000 

 feet, August to, 1902, as "Trifolium brachypus (Wats.)" Blank- 

 inship. A careful examination of Blankinship's plant shows 

 that it is a dwarf form of the yellowish flowered T. Rydbergii, 



