Atelophragma fernaldi

Atelophragma fernaldi Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 55: 126. 1928.
A perennial, with a stout root and cespitose subterranean caudex; stems about 3 dm. high, angled, sparingly strigose, more or less purplish; leaves 4—6 cm. long; stipules deltoid, about 5 mm. long; leaflets 9-13, oblong or elliptic, 1.5-2 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, sparingly hairy above, grayish-strigose beneath, rounded at each end; peduncles 5-7 cm. long; racemes 3-6 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 3 mm. long; calyx white-strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the teeth lancesubulate, 1 .5-2 mm. long ; corolla purple, about 1 cm. long ; banner broadly obovate, moderately arcuate; wings shorter, the blade oblong, falcate; keel-petals still shorter, the blade rounded at the apex; pod whitish or grayish-strigose, the stipe slightly shorter than the calyx-tube, the body oblanccolate in outline, acute at each end, about 1.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Blac Sablon, Labrador. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.