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are in ten to fourteen pairs, oval to elliptical, truncate to acutish, 
and sometimes apiculate, four lines long; petiole an inch long or 
none; flowers in a short and rather loose spike; pods hoary to 
almost glabrous; calyx two lines long, campanulate, teeth tri- 
angular and very short; pods the same as in A. candidissimus, also 
the pedicels, bracts, and peduncles. This is probably woody at 
base. The calyx is cleft deeper above, little gibbous, teeth nearly 
equal; flowers ochroleucous and ascending. Described from the 
type in the California Academy. Collected by E. IL. Greene at 
Cape San Quentin, May ro, 1885. So far as the description 
goes, this also might be 4. vestztus. 
Astragalus Miguelensis Greene. Probably woody or shrubby 
at base; stems, peduncles, leaves, bracts, pedicels and keel the 
same as in 4. candidisstmus; leaflets in ten to thirteen pairs, 
two-thirds of an inch long or less; flowers in a dense head or very 
short spike; calyx short-campanulate, cleft deeper above, teeth 
triangular-subulate, unequal, the lower nearly the length of the 
tube which is one and one-half lines long; flowers inclined to be 
reflexed, ochroleucous; keel three lines longer than calyx teeth; 
wings narrowly and obliquely lanceolate, and slightly ascending, 
two lines longer than the keel; banner ascending in a broad arc, 
and tip nearly erect, oval, a Jine longer than the wings; pods in 
a dense head, an inch long, exactly those of A. candidissimus, 
but perfectly glabrous, membranous and a little stiffer than the 
other, striate and faintly corrugated crosswise; seeds dark and 
nearly round. The upper stipules are not connate, though the 
lower ones are. The spike and flowers remind one of 4. Cana- 
densis. Collected by E. L. Greene at San Miguel Island, Cal., 
September, 1886, As Mr. Greene has suggested, this is probably 
a form of 4. anemophilus, unless there is a good character in the 
flowers, and I doubt that. This plant from the Herb. Cal. 
Acad. is ticketed in the handwriting of Mr. Greene, but differs 
in a marked degree from his description in Pittonia i, 33, and it 
differs from A. anemophilus more than that does from A. 
candidissimus. ‘The pubescence is woolly but with some straight 
hairs in places. As the stipules vary there is really nothing 
but the woolly pubescence to keep A. candidissimus, vestitus, 
anemophilus and Miguelensis from being combined; this is, however, 
