OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: NOVEMBER 11, 1863. 217 



Dr. Gibbons, received from the late Dr. Darlington, with both flowers 

 and ripe fruit. Cocomungo, Dr. Bigelow, from Dr. Ton-ej, with 

 flowers and fruit. Valley of San Inez River, near Santa Barbara, Dr. 

 Brewer, in the State Geological Survey ; in flower and with forming 

 fruit. In all these the leaves and stems are glabrous, except some scat- 

 tered appressed hairs, especially on younger parts ; the calyx sometimes 

 considerably pubescent. Flowers G to 8 lines long. 



66. A. Menziesii. Phaca densifoUa, Smith; Hook. Ic. t. 283, excl. 

 syn. Nutt. P. injlata, Nutt. mss., non Gill. P. NiittalUi, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. 1. c. Villoso-canescens ; caule decumbente glabrescente ; 

 stipulis scariosis ad versus folium connatis ; foliolis subcuneato-oblongis 

 subsessilibus ; legumine ovoideo " fere biunciali " tenui-membranacea. 

 — California, near Monterey, Santa Barbara, «&;c. — There is an As- 

 tragalus densifolius of Lamarck. 



•1-+ ++ Legumen brevi-stipitatum (stipite calycem adjequante); cjeterum 

 praecedentium. Stipuloe scariosse folium adversus fere ad apicem 

 usque (summis exceptis) connatte. 



67. A. CURTIPES (Gray in Proceed. Acad. Calif, ined.), sp. nov. 

 Pube appressa minuta canescens, demum glabratus ; caule erecto 

 pedali ; stipulis coalitis majusculis ; foliolis 12-16-jugis oblongis sen 

 lineari-oblongis retusis petiolulatis supra glabris ; racemo fructifero 

 brevi ; calycis dentibus tenui-subulatis tubo campanulato parum brevi- 

 oribus ; legumine sesquipoUicari puberulo glabrato semi-ovoideo (sutura 

 ventrali fere recta, dorsali maxime gibbosa) utrinque vix acutato cum 

 stipite rigido calycis tubum adtequante articulato. — San Luis Obispo, 

 California, on the side of a dry hill, April 13th. Dr. Brewer. Corolla 

 not seen. 



++++++ Legumen longiuscule vel longissime stipitatum, f - li-polli- 

 care, sutura ventrali convexiuscula recta vel concaviuscula. Stip- 

 ulae discretje. Flores albi seu flaviduli, rectiusculi. 



a. Stipes leguminis (basi baud vel parum attenuati) calycem longe 

 superans. Pedunculi folium longe excedentes, racemo brevi ob- 

 longo terminati. Stipulfe parvae. 



68. A. LEUcopsis, Torr. & Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 56, t. 16. 

 Phaca canescens, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1, p. 344. P. leucopsis, 

 Torr. & Gray, 1. c. p. 694. Tomentuloso-canescens demumve cinei'eus ; 

 foliolis 10- 18-jugis oblongis vel sublinearibus obtusis retusisve ; den- 

 tibus calycis subulatis tubo brevi-campanulato dimidio brevioribus ; 



VOL. VI. 21 



