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Kuhnistera candida multiflora (Nutt.) Rydberg; Petalostemon multiflorus Nutt. 
Journ. Acad. Phila. vii, 22 (1834). 
My specimens approach the preceding variety as to the length of the head, ete. 
Mullen, July 18 (No, 1850), 
Astragalus carolinianus L. Sp. Pl. ii, 757 (1753). 
This includes also 4. canadensis L., by which name it has generally been known, 
Astragalus carolinianus appears first on the page, and the description under it fits 
better our western plant. Forks of Dismal River, July 11; South Dismal, August 
14 (No. 1537). 
margin, teeth short with a pair of glands at the base, leaflets 5 to 6 pairs. Stem (in 
the typical form) stout, generally upright, leaflets 1 to 5.5 em. long and 3 to LO min, 
wide; heads oblong to cylindrical, dense even in fruit; bracts lanceolate or the upper 
ovate and cuspidate, much longer than the calyx, more persistent than in the other 
forms. 
Illinois: Chicago, Henry H. Babcock. 
Arkansas: Fort Smith, 1853, Bigelow (Whipple Exp.). 
Louisiana: (Collector not given), 
Kansas: Hutchinson, 1890, B. B. Smyth (a narrow-leated form). 
Nebraska: 1889, J. H. Holmes. 
KUHNISTERA CANDIDA OCCIDENTALIS var. nov. 
Stem generally slender and ascending, sometimes prostrate; leaflets 0.5 to 2 em, 
long and 2 to6 mm. wide; heads oblong to cylindrical, in fruit comparatively lax; 
bracts ovate and cuspidate, a little longer or sometimes shorter than the calyx, fall- 
ing early. 
Arizona: Fort Verde, 1883, H. H. Rusby; mesas around Mustang Mountains, 1884, 
C.G. Pringle; 1869 and 1890, Dr. Edward Palmer. 
New Mexico: 1847, A. Fendler’s No. 185; Calva Springs, 1878, W. B. Pease, No, 23; 
Las Vevas, 1881, DroG. R. Vasey. 
Mexico: Hills near Guerrero, 1887, C. G. Pringle, No. 1216. 
Texas: Mexican Boundary Survey, No, 241. 
Colorado: E, Hall, No. 112 (with broad leaves); 1868, Dr. G. R. Vasey. 
Nebraska: Scott’s Bluff County and Lawrence Fork, 1891, P. A. Rydberg, No. 58b; 
No. 1480 of this collection. 
South Dakota: Hot Springs, 1892, P. A. Rydberg, No. 612. 
Specimens from two localities differ from the rest in being prostrate and having 
small (about 0.5 em. long and 8 mun. wide) obovate, crowded leatlets. 
Nebraska: Deuel County, 1891, P. A. Rydberg, No, d&. 
N.W. Terr., British America: Moose Jaw Lake, 1880, John Macoun. 
KUHNISTERA CANDIDA MULTIFLORA (Nutt.) nom. nov. 
Stem slender, upright or ascending, corymbosely branched; heads capitate, short; 
bracts ovate and cuspidate, shorter than the calyx, deciduous. 
Texas: Industry, 1845, F. Lindheimer; 1849, Charles Wright, No. 118; Delaware 
Mountains, 1853, Bigelow (Whipple Exp.); Gillespie County, G. Jermy, No. 609; Wil- 
liams Creek, G. Jermy, No. 752; Ilempstead, 1872, E. Wall, No. 188; Corpus Christi, 
1889, Neally, No, 336. 
Indian Territory: 1868, Dr. Edward Palmer, No. 89; Wichita Mountains, 1891, C.S. 
Sheldon, No. 259; Cimarron Canyon, 1891, M. A. Carleton, No, 369, 
Kansas: Pratt, 1890, B. B. Smyth, Nos, 103 and 104; Onago, 1892, F. FF. Crevecaur, 
No. 1. 
Nebraska: Kiowa Valley, 1891, P. A. Rydberg, No. 58e; No. 1850 of this collection. 
Upright or ascending, or in one form prostrate, much branched; leatlets, 2 to 5 pairs, 
conspicuously glandular-punetate, linear-oblong or obovate, 0.5 to 2 cm. long, 2 to6 
mm. wide; obtuse or acutish; spikes oblong to cylindrical, 2 to 8 cm. long and gen- 
erally less than 1 em. in diameter, when young mostly acute, in fruit becoming long 
