Review of reviews and world's work . A large number of plants have been calledloco plants, but most commonly two specieshave been called by this name. One, theAstragalus mollissimus of the botanists, is aperennial leguminous plant growing fromNebraska south through the plains region. Itgrows in patches in the depressions in theplains, and while commonly found cannot besaid to cover the country as some plantsdo. It is a pretty plant, with rather incon-spicuous purple flowers and leaflets, so thicklybeset with hairs as to give it a silvery appear-ance. It is popularly known as the purpleloco, or
Review of reviews and world's work . A large number of plants have been calledloco plants, but most commonly two specieshave been called by this name. One, theAstragalus mollissimus of the botanists, is aperennial leguminous plant growing fromNebraska south through the plains region. Itgrows in patches in the depressions in theplains, and while commonly found cannot besaid to cover the country as some plantsdo. It is a pretty plant, with rather incon-spicuous purple flowers and leaflets, so thicklybeset with hairs as to give it a silvery appear-ance. It is popularly known as the purpleloco, or the woolly loco,—sometimes as the loco, or the real thing. The other plant commonly known as locois Aragallus lamberti. This ranges from thenorthern Canadian provinces into Mexico,and while its proper home is the semi-aridplains east of the Rocky Mountains, it isfound as far east as Minnesota and extendswell into the mountain regions of the places it covers the country with theluxuriance of a cultivated crop, being verj. PURPLE LOCO (ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS)IN THE UNITED STATES. 194 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF RE^lElVS.
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