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seed-bearing, sessile, rounded at base, early splitting the calyx, 
¢ross section apparently broadly obovate, tip with a very 
pronounced flat and sharp, triangular beak, two lines long; dorsal 
suture very convex, ventral slightly so; seed stalk one-half a 
line long. Flowers and pods horizontal or nearly so. The spike 
of flowers reminds one of those of Oxytropis deflexa. 
Astragalus inversus,n.sp. Allied to A. stenophyllus and colli. — 
nus. Susanville, California, July 1, 1892, Brandegee. Glabrous 
throughout. Stems flexuose two feet long, straggling upward, 
small, apparently simple, faintly angled, floriferous above the 
middle, nodes two to three inches apart; stipules, lower ones, 
rather small and united at base, the rest green and tapering toa 
long point and reflexed, four lines long, distinct; peduncles ten 
inches long, as stout as the stems, at least twice as long as the 
almost filiform petiole and leaflets; leaflets an inch long, distant, 
about three pairs, all jointed to the petiole; flowers loosely 
racemose on the upper half of the peduncle, six to ten, distant 
in fruit, ochroleucous; keel very gently arched at tip and blunt, 
natrow, rather long-clawed, six lines long, nearly equaling the 
narrow obtuse wings and small banner, the latter ascending only; 
calyx teeth very short-triangular, one-quarter the length of the 
campanulate tube which is one and one-half lines long and 
narrowed at base, not oblique, apparently equally toothed, dark 
and finely pubescent; pedicels a line or less long; bracts minute, 
ovate; flowers ascending, in fruit reflexed but not pendulous; 
pod long acuminate at each end, compressed, one and one-half 
inches long, two lines wide, linear, cross section elliptical or 
narrower, one-celled, sutures not prominent nor at all impressed, | 
dorsal suture concave and ventral convex and so the pod seem- 
ing wrong side up; stipe not jointed, nearly an inch long about 
half as long as the pod: seeds nearly round, many. The pod is 
purple and streaked with white, cartilaginous, 
Astragalus collinus Dougl. var, Californicus Gray. 'To this I 
refer with some hesitation a plant collected at Ager, Siskiyou 
County, California, July, 1887, by Brandegee. Glabrous, cartilag- 
inous, reticulated pods two inches long, two lines wide, and stipe 
three-quarters of an inch long, cross section oval, seeds a line 
