5517 Oxytropls sp 
Perennial from a branching caudex, subaculescent. Leaves 
tufted on the ground, 4 cm* or less long, covered with long semi- 
depressed sh silvery pubescence* Stipules 5-6 mm* long, 3 mm* wide, 
adnate l/3-l/2 length, fcK*atl broadly lanceolate, abruptly acute, 
shining hyaline, glabrous, entire or ciliate with long white hairs. 
Leaflets 13-17, elliptic, obtuse, 3-5 ram. long. Peduncles pubescent, 
3-10 cm. long* holding the subcapitate cluster of 3-5 flowers well 
above leaves. Mature fruit drops to or near the ground. Bracts 
subulate, pubescent, 4 mm. long. Calyx 6 mm. long, with black and 
white pubescence; teeth subulate 2-3 mm. long. Corolla glabrous, 
10-11 mm. long. Banner 2 mm. longer than wings which are 1 1/2 mm. 
longer than keel. Banner blurish purple, wings and keel purplish. 
Pod ovate, acute, 15-17 mm. long, 6-S mm. wide, reddish tinged, white 
pubescent. Style hooked. 
This plant has be emeferred to Oxytropis oreophila Gray from 
which it can be distingu ished by the following key: 
Leaflets 13-17; peduncles 3-10 cm. long holding flowers well 
above the leaves; stipules glabrous on back, entire or ciliate: 
Oxytropis sp. 
Leaflets 5-11, peduncles 1-5 cm. long holding flower cluster 
in or just above leaves; stipules clothed on back with long white 
hairs; Oxytropis oreophila Gray. 
Oxytropis oreophila Gray was described in the Proc. Amer. Acad.Q 
20: 3. 1885 from plants from two sources: L.F. Ward, Aquarius Plateau 
at nearly 10000 ft., Utah in 1875 and W. G. Wright, Eemmon, Grayback 
( San Gorgonia) San Bernadino Co. Calif, at 9000-10000 ft. in 
1879-1880. 
I have seen no material from the Utah station but it must have 
been identical with the San Gorgonia material. At Pomona there are 
five sheets from the type loaality on Mt. San Gorgonia. These fit the 
description by gray and diflfer from the Charleston Mt. material as 
shown above. This should of course be compared with the type 
material from both locations, which are probably at Harvard. 
At Pomona other plants referred to Oxytropis Oreophila are 
as follows: 
Purpus 6223, Cave Springs Mt. Utah is 0, oreophila 
Jones 5958ac Marysvale, Utah 
Jones 5874 Helen Mts., Utah 
Mathias 730 Cedar Breaks, Utah 
Jaeger three collections from the Charlestons 
all are this species# 
In addition to the above the plants from San Gorgonia have 
only 2-3 flowers in a head. 
