34 Contributions to Western Botany. [zoe 



same peduncle and are scattered. The immature pods are quite 

 appressed-hairy. Described from the type in the Herb. Cal. 

 Acad. Collected by Mr. Lemnion at Hanson's Ranch, lyOwer 

 California, July, 1888. 



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 looselj^ 

 appressed hairs which are slender, ver}^ ecfiinate, 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 cjdindric, 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 which is 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 A. tri- 

 florus and nearest to A. allochro^is 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 ^hort hairs; 3'oung 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, 



