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though at the time I deferred to his opinion. The plants were 

 collected at Milford, Utah, June 23, 1880, at 5000 feet altitude, 

 in alkaline meadows, being just in flower. Perennial from a 

 •deep, large, fleshy, erect root which is often divided at the apex 

 into many dense crowns, the crowns are covered with many stiflf 

 dead leaf petioles and with some rosulate new leaves which are 

 two to three inches long with margined petioles a little shorter 

 than the narrowly elliptical blade which is entire, fleshy, barely 

 acute at apex and cuueate narrowed at base; stems erect or the 

 outer ones ascending, twelve inches or less long, simple, purplish 

 at base, glabrous throughout even to the pods except a very 

 minute pubescence on the upper stem which is denser on the 

 pedicels and sparse on the sepals and long; stem leaves one to 

 two inches long, fleshy, entire, barelj' acute, broadly linear, a 

 little contracted at base but hardly petioled, not at all clasping 

 nor auricled, one-half longer than the internodes, many, scarcely 

 shorter above; spikes short, one to two inches long, sessile or 

 nearly so in fruit, a mere head in flower; pedicels rather stout, 

 short in flower, in fruit ascending but tips usually horizontal, 

 three lines long, round, but with a ridge on either side and so 

 seeming flattened, a little thickened at apex; sepals green, oval, 

 very concave, rounded and hyaline at apex, three-quarter line 

 long, often sparsely long-hairy; petals obovate one and one-half 

 lines long, white; stamens apparently two with large oval 

 anthers half as long as the stout filament, just equaling the short 

 stout style; pods two lines long and a line wide, seeming acute 

 at each end but minutely notched at apex, flat, not winged, 

 elliptical, not corrugated, the two nerves very prominent and 

 raised into a very narrow wing in the middle of the pod, of the 

 same width as the style and seeming to be a prolongation of it; 

 style one-third line long and much longer than the minute 

 notch; pods erect and so at right angles to the apex of the 

 pedicel. Distributed as No. 1821 of my Utah sets. 



Astragalus pephragmemcs, n. sp. Nearest to A. glareosus: 

 referred to A. Shortianus, var. minor (^X2,y. Perennial, matted 

 from a much branched woody root, stems one to four inches long, 

 spreading on the ground; stipules large and scarious, triangular, 

 very slightly connate below, adnate to the petiole; whole plant 



