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are open all the time after they first come out. The night 
bloomers are all fragrant so far as I remember. 
Lycium ANDERSONI Gray. ‘This is a shrub characteristic of the 
desert region in the juniper belt of the Great Basin. It has the 
usual scraggly, stunted, tangled, and spiny look, forming a 
rounded mass about 2% feet high and is rigid and with fleshy 
leaves, reminding one of Sarcobatus though denser and less 
high. It looks like a plant that would revel in alkali, but on the 
contrary it never grows in alkaline soil, nor do its leaves taste 
salty as those of such plants do. It prefers gravelly washes but 
occasionally grows on plains in the desert. The stems are tufted 
and bent, roughened throughout with many minute cracks which 
expose the thin layers of bark. The bark does not peel up into 
flakes but shows many thin edges and splits into flat threads. 
The older bark is spotted with many black specks. The twigs 
taper into needle tips and are white and knotty in the axils of the 
leaves, and come out nearly at right angles to the stems. The 
stems are often twisted and much bent. The wood is greenish 
and compact but rather brittle. The fruit is generally scarce, 
but this season occasional bushes were found which were loaded 
with the cherry-red berries, the larger ones being 13 inch long, 
round or slightly ellipsoidal, slightly acid, rather = about 
as solid as a ripe huckleberry. 
ASTRAGALUS KENTROPHYTA Gray var. rotundus ‘This is the 
same as A. tegefarius var. rotundus Jones, Cont. VII, 650. The 
writer has for a long time tried to believe that 4. fegetarius was 
distinct from A. Kentrophyia, but it is impossible to keep it up 
as anything but a sub-species at most. It is one of the very rare 
cases where a species that has its home in theoak or even in the 
juniper belt has a variety that inhabits the spruce belt almost to 
timber line. ; 
Astragalus Craigi, Coll. by Howell on John Day’s River, 
Or., May, 1885. 
Habit of A. drepanolobus and diurnus Perennial, widely 
spreading, a foot long, nodes about 1 inch apart, slender stems 
and peduncles sulcate; petiole from ™% to % the leaf; middle 
leaves the largest, 3 inches long, of 4-5 pairs of obovate, long- 
