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and one-half a line longer than the wings; stipules green, rather 
stiff, reflexed, triangular, acute, two lines long. 
Astragalus near to Parishit. Vallederos Creek, Lower Cal., 
May 4, 1893. Stems ascending, many from a perennial root, a 
foot high, nearly smooth; peduncles four to six inches long, 
longer than the leaves; flowers small, three lines long, yellowish, 
spicate at the tip of the peduncle, reflexed; calyx campanulate, 
tube a line long, teeth triangular, one-half a line long; pods 
an inch long and half as wide, broadly elliptical, sessile, spicate, 
horizontal, one-celled, chartaceous, much inflated, barely acute, 
dorsal suture much more convex than the ventral, ventral suture 
somewhat inflexed, sutures thin; seeds rather large, on short 
_ Stalks, confined to the middle of the pod as in most of this group, 
several; stipules triangular, not reflexed, two lines long; pedicels 
less than a line long, about equaling the ovate bracts; petiole 
an inch or less long; leaflets oblong, about eleven pairs, obtuse 
at apex and acute at base. The pods are finely reticulated, 
glabrous or minutely pubescent when young. 
Astragalus between oocarpus and Parishit. San Pedro Martir, 
Lower California, May 6, 1893. About the same as 4. Parishii, 
but stipules almost hyaline and seldom reflexed ; peduncles twice 
as long as the leaves, with yellow flowers above the middle: pod 
one and one-half inches long; keel arched, wings very much so. — 
It is quite probable that one polymorphous species will cover 
most of this group. 
Astragalus Hookerianus Gray. This neat little group repre- 
sented by two supposed species can be described so far as known 
in two words, i. e., pods balloon-shaped. Mr. Brandegee’s speci- 
mens from Susanville, Cal., June 30, 1892. Stems a foot high, 
decumbent at base only; very minutely pubescent; leaflets 
elliptical to linear one-third to an inch long, acutish, about seven » 
pairs; leaves two to four inches long and proper petiole less than 
an inch long; peduncles four to six inches long; flowers racemose 
- near the end of the slender peduncle, in fruit distant; pods two 
inches long, half as wide, papery, finely reticulated, more or less 
‘Spotted, rounded at apex and tapering into a stipe, ascending 
or nearly erect, much inflated, sutures very small and not at all 
