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when fully developed and as they fade or become old they turn 

 to a rich cream color. I have never yet seen a truly yellow- 

 flower even in a herbarium specimen. It is one of the earliest 

 spring flowers, coming out along with Cymoptenis monianus, and 

 is out of bloom in a month or less. I will give a detailed 

 account of field studies on this plant in a later issue. 



Through the kindness of Miss Eastwood and Mrs. Brandegee 

 I have been enabled to examine all the material of the Eriocarpi 

 in the Herbarium of the California Academ3\ Of A. Purshii 

 I have seen material from Wyoming, Washington, and the Sierras 

 as far south as Tehachapi and Tejon Mountain, California. 



Astragalus Purshii, Douglas var. iindics, n. var. leaves very 

 broadly obovate, small; flowers purple, otherwise as in the tj^pe. 



Edgewood near Mt. Shasta and also in Ventura County, Cal., 

 Brandegee; Olanche and Keeler, Inyo County, Cal., Brandegee; 

 the former also by Miss Eastwood, Soda Springs, Nevada County, 

 Cal., 1882 Jones, and an intermediate form June 16, '1882, Austin 

 Nevada, Jones. This seems to belong to western Nevada and the 

 Sierra Nevada region. It should be remembered that the type 

 of ^. Furshiiis stemless. 



Astragalus Purshii, Douglas var. longilobus, n. var. Calyx 

 lobes filiform nearly equaling the keel; peduncles as long as the 

 leaves; otherwise as in the type. Tehachapi, June, 1884, Brande- 

 gee; Aurum, Nevada, May 4, 1893, Jones (not in fruit). Also 

 Tanesville, Cal., June 30, 1892, Brandegee. This has very long 

 stipules and pod oi A. inflexus, but the woolliness oi A. Purshii. 

 Connecting forms occur, but as yet I have seen no specimens 

 which I could not at once separate from A. inflexiis. 



Astragalus inflexus Douglas. A plant in the Herbarium of 

 the California Academy by Canby from Washington, 1883, has a 

 stem six inches high, with six leaves or joints from a closely 

 branched root; whole plant white with long and very fine hairs, 

 having a floccose appearance, but the hairs are not much tangled; 

 stems zigzag; proper petiole an inch or less long; stipules and 

 bracts the same as in A. Purshii, but usually wider; six lines 

 long, hyaline, tapering from base to a fine, threadlike point; 

 leaflets ten to fifteen pairs, elliptical, six lines long, sharply apic- 



