136 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Aragallus veganus (Cockerell) Wooton & Standley. 
Aragailus pinetorum veganus Cockerell, Torreya 2: 155. 1902. 
Apparently this is a most distinct species, found only on the tops of the 
highest mountains in the ranges lying between Santa Fe and Las Vegas. The 
assignment of the plant to rank as a subspecies under A. pinetorum was most 
unfortunate, since the plant is not at all closely related to that species, but 
finds its affinities among some of the alpine species of Colorado and Wyoming, 
Astragalus albulus Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Plant 40 to 60 cm. high, much branched from a woody root, hirsutulous- 
anescent throughout; stipules whitish, membranaceous, large, connate opposite 
the leaves, the free tips broadly triangular; leaves 5 to 8 em. long, with very 
short petioles; leaflets 8 to 10 pairs, linear or narrowly oblong, 10 to 15 mm. 
long, acute or obtuse, glabrous above; flowers in loose, axillary racemes 10 to 15 
em. long; peduncles 3 to 5 cm, long, the pedicels very short, subtended by white, 
membranous, ovate bracts half the length of the calyx; flowers dull yellow, 
tinged with purple; calyx cylindric, about 7 mm. long, the subulate teeth one- 
fourth as long, appressed-pubescent with both black and white hairs; corolla 
about 12 mm, long, the wings and banner only a little longer than the keel; 
mature fruit not seen, the very young pods 1-celled, several-seeded, with a very 
short stipe, slightly flattened dorso-ventrally at the base, acute, appressed- 
pubescent. . 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 690252, collected in a canyon on 
the road to Zuni some distance south of Gallup, August 1, 1904, by E. O. 
Wooton. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Without mature fruit the relationship of this plant can not be stated defi- 
nitely, but it is unlike any species known to us. 
Astragalus altus Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial, 40 to 60 em, high, with several slender, erect, sparingly branched 
stems, these indistinctly striate, sparsely pubescent with very short, appressed 
hairs; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, neither connate nor adnate to 
the expanded bases of the petioles; leaves 8 to 10 cm. long; petioles 1 cm. long 
or less; leaflets 10 to 14 pairs, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, when mature 8 to 10 
mm. long, entire, acute or obtuse, appressed-pubescent beneath; flowers in 
axillary racemes 6 to 10 cm. long, the peduncles elongating slightly in fruit, the 
flowers crowded in a short raceme, not capitate; calyx yellowish, sparsely 
pubescent with appressed, black hairs, 5 mm. long including the small, acute 
teeth scarcely 1 mm. long; corolla bright yellow, hardly 10 mm. long, the wings 
and banner considerably surpassing the obtuse keel; pods (about half mature) 
15 to 20 mm. long including the stipe (8 to 10 mm, long), oblong, acute, mem- 
branous, the lower suture somewhat sulecate, several-seeded, sparsely appressed- 
pubescent with minute black hairs. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 690253, collected at Toboggan in 
the Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, July 31, 1899, by E. O. Wooton. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Upper Tularosa Creek, Sacramento Moun- 
tains, August 6, 1901, Wooton. 
At first glance this might be confused with A. rusbyi, which it resembles in a 
general way. It differs in having shorter and broader leaflets, crowded flowers 
on much shorter peduncles, and pods with longer stipes and much less inflexed 
sutures. 
Astragalus neomexicanus Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Herbaceous perennial about 380 cm. high, with somewhat the aspect of 
Aragallus deflexus ; stems ascending, branched from the base, pubescent ; stipules 
