Nutzotin Milk Vetch

Gynophoraria falcata Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stems decumbent, at least at the base, 1 dm. long or less; leaves 2-5 cm. long, spreading; stipules broadly deltoid, membranous, often slightly purple-tinged; leaflets 11-15, oval or elliptic, 3-4 mm. long, strigose beneath, glabrate above, rounded at each end; peduncles 4-6 cm. long; racemes 1-3-flowered, short; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; pedicels 3 mm. long, hirsutulous; calyx minutely black-hairy, the tube campanulate, 3 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla apparently white or ochroleucous, fully 1 cm. long; banner broadly obovate, distinctly clawed; pod borne on a curved gynophore, 5-7 mm. long, the pod itself strongly arched upwards, acute at each end, papery, 1-celled, somewhat compressed, slightly inflated, 7—8 mm. wide, curved in a half-circle, 2-2.5 cm. in diameter, minutely hirsutulous with black hairs; seeds obliquely round-reniform, 3 mm. long.
Type collected between Lake Kluane and Don Jek River, Yukon, August 11-27, 1920, August Mutter (type in herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila).