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same peduncle and are scattered. The immature pods are quite 
appressed-hairy. Described from the type in the Herb. Cal. 
Acad. Collected by Mr. Lemmon at Hanson’s Ranch, Lower 
California, July, 1888. | ee 
ASTRAGALUS ANISUS, n. sp. This is near the Mollissimi. 
Very low, two or three inches high and very short-stemmed, 
perennial, silky pubescent, with rather long and loosely 
appressed hairs which are slender, very echinate, and attached 
by the middle; stems, stipules, and leaves silvery with long 
hairs; peduncles less pubescent; calyx nigrescent only, with 
sparse hairs; pods softly and rather thinly pubescent with short 
hairs. Leaves two inches long and petiole as long as the rachis, 
leaflets three to six pairs, obovate to oval, two to three lines 
long. Peduncles longer than the leaves and with stout fruiting 
pedicels two lines long. Flowers erect or spreading, six to ten 
and probably subcapitate; calyx-tube broadly cylindric, four 
lines long exclusive of the subulate teeth which are less than a 
line long; corolla not seen; pods almost an exact oval, very 
obtuse at.each end but apiculate at apex and abruptly contracted 
into a pseudo-stipe whichis very short, at base two-celled, six 
lines long, chartaceous, finely corrugated, sulcate ventrally but 
not deeply, and slightly sulcate dorsally often. Collected at 
Pueblo, Colo., by Miss A. P. Lansing, and communicated by 
Miss Alice Eastwood. 
ASTRAGALUS WETHERILLI, n. sp. With the habit of 4. éz- 
florus and nearest to A. allochrous in general character except the 
jointed pedicel. Ascending twelve to eighteen inches high and 
many stemmed from a rather woody, perennial root, glabrous 
or very sparsely pubescent on the upper stems and rachis; calyx 
nigrescent with short hairs; young pods ashy with minute white 
hairs, mature pods very sparsely and minutely pubescent. 
Stipules small. Lower leaves small, one to two inches long, with 
_ four to five pairs of obovate rounded to retuse leaflets, two to 
three lines long; uppermost leaves largest, three to four inches 
long, including the inch-long petiole; leaflets, six to eight pairs, 
oval to obovate, obtuse, four lines long. Peduncles one to two 
inches long and capitately six to eight-flowered, rather stout, | 
