186 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Hosackia (Syrmatium) disticha. 



Canescent, with a short, appressed, silky pubescence: 

 root perennial: stems stout, 2 — 3 feet high, erect and re- 

 curved; branches short, strictly in two ranks: stipular 

 glands minute : leaflets 3 — 5, obovate, acute: umbels very 

 short-peduncled, 2 — 3-flowered: calyx-teeth subulate, half 

 the length of the tube: corolla 3 — 4 lines long, reddish, 

 turning dark brown: pods (immature) nearly an inch long 

 including the slender beak. 



Cape San Quentin, Lower California, May 10, 1885. A 

 well marked species, the tall tufted stems not at all decum- 

 bent, but erect at base, the upper portion, with its dis- 

 tichous branches, gracefully curving downwards. 



Astragalus fastidiosus. 



Jnfiati: tomentose-canescent, a foot high, suffrutescent at 

 base : stipules triangular-subulate, deflexed : leaflets in many 

 pairs, oblong, refuse, 3 — 6 lines long: racemes short, on 

 peduncles exceeding the leaves: calyx- teeth sharply subu- 

 late, half as long as the campanulate tube: corolla greenish 

 white: pod an inch long, of parchment-like texture, oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate above, at base tapering to a short, included 

 stipe. — Phaca fastidia, Kellogg, Hesperian iv. 145, with fig. 

 Astragalus Coulteri (?), Bull. Cal. Acad. iii. 136. 



Fresh specimens, collected by the writer recently on Ce- 

 dros Island, settle negatively the question of the identity of 

 this plant with A. Coulteri, Benth. Dr. Kellogg's figure is 

 faulty. The racemes are shorter and denser than repre- 

 sented, and the pods are not erect, but deflexed. 



Astragalus anemophilus. 



Iriflati: perennial, white-tomentose throughout, leaflets 

 numerous, somewhat crowded, obovate or oblong, acutish, 

 3 — 6 lines long: peduncles rather stout, twice the length of 

 the leaves; raceme short and dense: calyx-teeth triangular, 

 acute one third the length of the short-cylindrical tube: 



