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ulate, at least the most of them, acute at base and a little cuneate; 

 nodes of stem shorter than the leaves, which are three to four 

 inches long; naked part of peduncle as long as the leaf, erect; 

 flowers racemose, few; fruiting pedicels one to one and one-half 

 lines long; calyx hyaline, not much inflated, cylindrical, tube 

 five lines long, teeth nearly the same and almost filiform except 

 at short triangular base; blade of keel two lines long, purple 

 tipped, very long clawed; wings a little longer than keel, and 

 banner a line longer than wings; flowers not large and probably 

 white; pods ascending, short-stalked and jointed at tip of stalk, 

 as in A. Purshii, the stalk being one-third to one-half a line 

 long and stout, pods simply shaggy as in A. malacns, fleshy, 

 finely wrinkled, usually bent into a half circle, three lines wide, 

 one to one and one-half lines thick, much obcompressed till the 

 sutures nearly meet, with a very broad, shallow sulcus above 

 and below, point of pod sharp but scarcely flattened; seeds rather 

 large, a line long; pods cartilaginous. 



Two forms which I refer to Astragalus Uta/ieiisisT. & G. in the 

 Herbarium of the California Academy are one from Candelaria, 

 Nev., by Shockley, with flowers and peduncles of this species and 

 the pubescence less woolly and stems not branched; and one by 

 Brandegee from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, which is this species, 

 but the pubescence is more that of A. PiirsJiii. 



Astragalus teticolobus."^ This is a specimen from Mr. Parish 

 in my herbarium labeled "Watson"; if it has been published I 

 do not know it. The plant is many-stemmed from a somewhat 

 woody root and stems short, one to two inches long and decum- 

 bent; nodes shorter than the large, triangular, acute, hyaline, 

 free stipules; peduncles four to five inches long, ascending, rather 

 stout, three to five-flowered at the tip, and with flowers close 

 together; bracts hyaline, broadl^^ ovate to lanceolate, acutish, 

 one to two lines long; pedicel almost none; flowers nearly hori- 

 zontal, purple but lighter below; calyx cylindric, three lines 

 long, one line wide, inclined to be narrowed at apex, base 

 oblique; teeth very short, triangular, one-half a line long, erect; 



It is probable that A. leticolobus is a clerical error for A, lectulus AVatson 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. 22, 472, as the description there given accords with the 

 plant under consideration. 



