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albis violaceo tinctis parvis (lin. 3 longis), vexillo apice emarginato- 

 bifido alisque carinafn incurvum longe superantibus ; calycis dentibus 

 tubo asquilongis ; ovario 8 - 10-ovulato breviter stipitato ; legumine 

 parvo oblongo falcato-incurvo striguloso-pubescente substipitato oligo- 

 spermo sutura dorsali intrusa semibilocellato. — On the lower Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado Territory, about lat. 40°, Hall and Harbour, 

 no. 128. — Stems a foot or more in length, with many slender branches. 

 Legumes 3 to 4 lines long, coriaceous, spotted with purplish, either 

 slightly or strongly incurved, pointed with the style, pubescent with 

 whitish short hairs, ripening from three to five seeds ; the stipe as short 

 and occult as in A. orohoides ; the dorsal suture as deeply sulcate-im- 

 pressed as in that species ; the ventral suture acute and prominent. 



Var. MAJUSCULUS. Glabrior ; foliolis majoribus (lin. 3-5) obovato- 

 oblongis ; pedunculis 5 - 10-floris in racemo laxo secundo ; legumine 

 magis elongato semipollicari 10 - 12-spermo. — With the preceding 

 (no. 129 of the same collection) ; the legumes the same, except in 

 their greater length, similarly spotted. 



* * Californici, pusilli, e radice annua erecti ; foliolis obcordato-emar- 

 ginatis ; floribus paucis capitatis. Corollas alae et priecipue vexil- 

 lum carinam longe superantes. Ovaria sericeo-canescentia brevi- 

 ter stipitata vel sessilia. Legumina matura ignota. 



39. A. TENER, sp. nov. PJiaca astragalina ^3. Hook. & Arn. Bot. 

 Beech, p. 334. A. Hypoglottis, var. strigosa, Kellogg in Proceed. 

 Calif. Acad. 2, p. 115, fig. 373. Spithama^us, pilis nigris albidisque 

 brevissimis strigulosus ; stipulis parvis ovatis scariosis ; foliolis 5-7- 

 jugis lineari-cuneatis late emarginatis ; ovario lineari semibilocellato 

 10- 12-ovulato stipitato, deflorato reflexo. — California, Douglas : from 

 near Monterey or San Francisco. — This was long ago collected by 

 Douglas, without fruit. But the forming legume is deflexed, linear- 

 lanceolate, canescent, and on a stipe considerably shorter than the tube 

 of the calyx. The latter is black-hairy and in other respects much like 

 that of A, alpitius. But the corolla is wholly different, much narrower, 

 with the far smaller keel one third shorter than the wings, and only 

 half the length of the standard ; the color apparently similar, the keel 

 tipped with deep violet. The root is evidently annual. If this is, as I 

 suppose, the plant coarsely figured by Dr. Kellogg, the legumes are 

 oblong-linear, somewhat incurved, not obviously stipitate, and only 

 spreading. 



