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are in ten to fourteen pairs, oval to elliptical, truncate to acutisb, 

 and sometimes apiculate, four lines long; petiole an inch long or 

 none; flowers in a short and rather loose spike; pods hoary to 

 almost glabrous; calyx two lines long, campanulate, teeth tri- 

 angular and very short; pods the same as in A. candidissimus, also 

 the pedicels, bracts, and peduncles. This is probably woody at 

 base. The calyx is cleft deeper above, little gibbous, teeth nearly 

 equal; flowers ochroleucous and ascending. Described from the 

 type in the California Academy. Collected by E. ly. Greene at 

 Cape San Quentin, May lo, 1885. So far as the description 

 goes, this also might be A. vestitus. 



Astragalus Miguelensis Greene. Probably woody or shrubby 

 at base; stems, peduncles, leaves, bracts, pedicels and keel the 

 same as in A. candidissimus; leaflets in ten to thirteen pairs, 

 two-thirds of an inch long or less; flowers in a dense head or very 

 short spike; calyx short-campanulate, cleft deeper above, teeth 

 triangular-subulate, unequal, the lower nearly the length of the 

 tube which is one and one-half lines long; flowers inclined to be 

 reflexed, ochroleucous; keel three lines longer than calyx teeth; 

 wings narrowly and obliquely lanceolate, and slighth' ascending, 

 two lines longer than the keel; banner ascending in a broad arc, 

 and tip nearly erect, oval, a line longer than the wings; pods in 

 a dense head, an inch long, exactl}^ those of A. candidissimus, 

 but perfectly glabrous, membranous and a little stifier than the 

 other, striate and faintly corrugated crosswise; seeds dark and 

 nearly round. The upper stipules are not connate, though the 

 lower ones are. The spike and flowers remind one of A. Cana- 

 densis. Collected by K. Iv. Greene at San Miguel Island, Cab, 

 September, 1886. As Mr. Greene has suggested, this is probably 

 a form of A. anemophilus, unless there is a good character in the 

 flowers, and I doubt that. This plant from the Herb. Cal. 

 Acad, is ticketed in the handwriting of Mr. Greene, but differs 

 in a marked degree from his description in Pittonia i, 33, and it 

 differs from A. anemophilus more than that does from A. 

 candidissimus. The pubescence is woolly but with some straight 

 hairs in places. As the stipules vary there is really nothing 

 but the woolly pubescence to keep A. candidissimus, vestitus, 

 anemophilus and Miguelensis from being combined: this is, however. 



