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keel gently bent at tip into an arc of a circle, blade two and one- 
half lines long, less than a line wide, obtuse; linear wings barely 
surpassing keel; banner a little longer than wings and ascending; 
flowers about three lines. longer than calyx, and calyx scarcely 
deeper cleft above and but little inflated; pods immature, but 
apparently about the size of A. Purshiz, but base nearly straight 
and apex hooked, thin, sulcate dorsally one-half a line deep, 
‘cross section probably obovate-cordate, apparently very shortly 
stipitate in the calyx, white with a dense, very short pubescence. 
The leaves are two to three inches long, of about ten leaflets, 
which are close set, three lines long, elliptical to oval, obtuse; 
petiole one to two inches long; whole plant hoary with close, 
fine, short hairs. ‘This has the look of A. Utahenszs, but with 
shorter and stouter flowers and longer peduncles. It may not 
belong at all to the Zrtocarpi, but its true position cannot be 
made out without mature pods. Collected by S. B. Parish in 
Bear Valley on San Bernardino Mountain, Cal., June, 1892. 
To this I refer a specimen collected by Miss Eastwood on 
Cantua Mountain, Cal., May 19, 1893. It either belongs here or 
is a new species. The nodes are a little longer, short stems 
much branched; leaflets two lines long, oval; pods shaggy with 
dense long hairs as in 4. U/fahensis, hooked at the end as in this 
species; whole plant shaggy and hoary; podsimmature. Mani- 
festly closely allied to 4d. Utahensis. 
Astragalus lentiginosus, Douglas. To this species I have 
referred with some doubt a plant sent by Mr. Brandegee from 
Lone Pine, Cal., May 16, 1890. It has the long peduncle of the 
var. Fremonti. ‘The calyx is oblique and like that of Hedeoma 
Drummondi, a line long with lobes as long and subulate, cleft 
deeper above, hoary with white appressed hairs, flowers and pods 
horizontal; keel abruptly incurved to more than 90°, a line 
shorter than the ascending, linear-oblong wings which are 
rounded at apex, light purple; banner light purple, a line 
longer than wings, nearly erect, large, sides reflexed; peduncles 
four inches long, longer than ‘the leaves, ten to fifteen-flowered 
above the middle, racemose; pods: congested, oval, abruptly : 
short-pointed, three-quarters inch long, one-half inch wide, 
Pe papery, glabrous, or very minutely pubescent when young; — 
