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pubescent, with the same kind of hairs; the leaves are in pairs,, 

 with fascicles of smaller ones in the axils; upper part of stems,, 

 peduncles, leaves, and calyx very glandular as well as pubescent 

 with coarse hairs; pedicels stout, 2 to 4 lines long; calyx 

 narrow, 4 lines long, tube with teeth 2j^ lines long, the 

 former 5-nerved prominently and the nerves with narrow 

 green margins; calyx lobes very narrowly subulate, acerose, 

 I to i>^ lines long, not spreading much; corolla purple or 

 lighter, purple spotted at the throat, tube Vi a line wide 

 at base and a line wide at apex, i to 2 lines longer than 

 the calyx and teeth, lobes oval, entire, 2 lines long; flower 

 5 lines wide; stamens very unequally inserted, small, oblong, 

 yellow; capsule i}^ lines long, exactly oval, obtuse, apiculate 

 with the sharp vestige of the long (4 lines) style, the point 

 of insertion of the capsule is very weak, and the capsule 

 readil}' breaks away and falls off leaving an empty calyx; lobes 

 of the style about y'l a line long; placental axis is triquetrous, 

 with one large oblong seed attached by its inner face in each cell 

 above the middle of the concave placental wall. 



This unique Phlox in its foliage resembles Galium Mathewsii 

 or stellahim. The glandular pubescence at once separates it 

 from any other of its class. Sometimes the stems are absent and the 

 single flowers arise from a rosette of very short (i to i^^ a line) 

 leaves, on pedicels x lines long and with a calyx only 2 to 3 

 lines long; corolla not reduced. This form I call var. minor. 



East face of Mt. Helena, Montana, May, 1S91. Rev. F. D. 

 Kelsey. 



Astragalus Eastwood.^: Jones. A. Preussii x&r. siilcaius 

 Jones "Zoe" iv, 37; as A. Sulcatus is preoccupied. 



Astragalus Haydenianus Gray. This rather pretty and 

 very odoriferous plant is of late receiving fully as many synonyms- 

 as A. lentiginosus. In fact, every time it has been collected but 

 twice it has received a new name. As I have shown in "Zoe " 

 ii, 241, there is nothing to separate it from A. bisulcatus except its 

 more slender habit and white flowers. For convenience I there 

 separated two western forms of it as var. viajor {irom. Johnson, S. 

 Utah) and var. N evade )i si s {irova. Palisade, Nevada). Lately Mr. 

 Greene visits my type locality and probably the very field 



