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32_140 [April 9, 1916] Coolgardie Yucca Mesa Calico Mts. [Mountains] No. 6697. Dalea saundersii Parish. (see p. 1410. Shrub 3 to 4 feet high. Its purple is the royal purple, like the finest color of the Royal Larkspur (Delphinium variegatum). It is or is almost indigo. It is one of the finest colors I know. Its odor is a characteristic desert odor-aromatic turpentine kind of odor _ heavy but with something of strong incense. Banner notched, wings a trifle shorter than keel, not notched as only very rarely as a mere variation. Lower calyx tooth, opposite banner, slender, recurving or at first spreading, the lateral broad and short, erect, the upper broad and short, closely approximate the sinus folded |
32_141 April 9, 1916 [Coolgardie Yucca Mesa, Calico Mtns] 3000 feet them as a sort of flat blunt spur. = Parosela fremonti Vail var. saundersii Mcbr. No. 6698. Astragalus layneae Greene. Flowers 8 to 8.5 lines long. Calyx 5 lines long with short but slender teeth, banner dull white, with purple lines in center. Wings blunt, exceeding keel a little, practically as long as banner. Wings and keel dark purple on their upper parts. All parts of the corolla, stamens, and pistil glabrous. Stamens 9 and 1, the free filaments of the 9 very short, just the cured portion at the top of the united sheath, shorter than I have ever noticed before. Sides of banner turned sharply back, the tip of the banner with a light blue spot. _ Calico Wash. |
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