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' jacent mainland or in the mountains to the north of them. A very 
few, however, have been found in no other locallty, and these are 
inhabitants of the rocks. One of the most showy and interesting is 
Gongylocarpus fruticulosus, which is so conspicuous that it could 
not have been passed over in other localities. Mamillaria Halei 
and Agave Margarit will probably be found in no other locality. 
Brickellia hastata may be peculiar to these islands; so also may be 
Viguiera subincisa. 
And these species complete the list, which is more likely to be 
diminished than increased, 
NEW PLANTS FROM ARIZONA, UTAH AND NEVADA. 
BY MARCUS E. JONES. 
ASTRAGALUS MOoENCOPPENSIS. Densely tufted from a much 
branched woody root; one foot high, branched, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent with scattered hairs, young leaves more pubescent ; stip- 
ules scarious, small, broadly triangular, not free, generally with a tuft 
of white hairs at the tip; leaves 4 to 8 inches long, petiole half the 
length, generally grooved; leaflets about 5 pairs, linear or narrow- _ 
er, one inch or less long, acute, somewhat narrowed at the base; 
peduncles 8 to 12 inches long, racemose-spicate on the upper half, 
flowers spreading; bracts a line long, ovate or lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, hairy; pedicels half a line long; calyx very hairy with entan- 
gled white hairs, campanulate, about 2 lines long, equaling or slight- 
ly exceeding the subulate lobes ; flowers purple, surpassing the calyx 
lobes by 1 to 2 lines; pods erect or even reflexed, barely equaling 
the calyx lobes, 3 lines long by 14 wide, one-celled, obcompressed 
to such an extent that the cross-section is nearly linear, hoary, ob- 
long-oval, acute, sessile, both sutures prominent, the ventral more : 
So, scarcely sulcate ventrally, not at all dorsally. Cet 
Collected June 11, 1890, on limestone cliffs, at Willow Springs, 
near the Moencoppa, in northern Arizona. Oy ae 
ASTRAGALUS SOPHOROIDEs. Perennial but flowering the first 
