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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 cicad.*:, n. sp. This appears to be near A. 

 viegacarpus, and has the habit and general appearance of A. 

 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. Leaves 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 wath 

 sparse and very short hairs, four lines long exclusive of the 

 subulate teeth a line long; flowers apparently cchroleucous, 

 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. 



