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with pedicels a line long in flower and two lines long in fruit, 
twice as long as the ovate bract. Calyx narrowly campanulate 
two and one-half lines long including the subulate teeth which 
are a line long; flowers four lines long, white with pink- 
tipped banner, keel straight to the abruptly incurved (to a right 
‘angle) apex, one and one-half lines longer than calyx teeth, 
wings just surpassing the keel and upwardly curved so as to 
conceal it, banner two lines longer than keel, broad, rounded, 
ascending somewhat; pods three-quarters to an inch long, 
obliquely ovate and shortly acuminate, obtuse at base but 
contracted, jointed to the line-long stipe at its apex, thin-char- 
taceous, not pendulous or purple spotted, sulcate ventrally, not 
at all dorsally, ventral septum also extended a line deep in the 
centre of the pod but not at all at each end, straight, dorsal 
septum bent to an arc of an oval, pod inflated and cross-section 
nearly round. 
Collected at Grand Junction, Colo., May, 1892, by Miss Alice 
Eastwood, and dedicated to Mr. Alfred Wetherill by request. 
ASTRAGALUS CICADA, n. sp. This appears to be near 4. 
megacarpus, and has the habit and general appearance of 4. 
amphioxys. Perennial, depressed, and almost stemless, three to 
four inches high. Stipules large for the plant, hairy, acute, and 
connate below. Petioles, peduncles, and leaves silvery with 
appressed, very acute, echinate, hairs that are fixed by the 
middle. eaves about two inches long, with three to four pairs 
of broadly to narrowly elliptical leaflets, three to four lines long. 
Peduncles one and one-half inches, long, decumbent, capitately 
few-flowered, and with pedicels a line long equaling the ovate, 
acute, hairy bract. Calyx broadly cylindrical, nigrescent with 
sparse and very short hairs, four lines long exclusive of the. 
subulate teeth a line long; flowers apparently ochroleucous, 
exceeding the teeth by four lines, keel nearly straight and but 
little incurved at the obtuse tip, wings a trifle longer, and 
nearly equaling the slightly ascending banner; pod obliquely 
oblong lanceolate, one and one-half inches long, shortly 
acuminate, somewhat incurved, not stipitate, but a little 
contracted at base, minutely and rather sparsely pubescent, 
