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keel gently bent at tip into an arc of a circle, blade two and one- 

 half lines long, less than a line wide, obtuse; linear wings barely 

 surpassing keel; banner a little longer than wings and ascending; 

 flowers about three lines longer than calyx, and calyx scarcely 

 deeper cleft above and but little inflated; pods immature, but 

 apparently about the size of A. Piirshii, but base nearly straight 

 and apex hooked, thin, sulcate dorsally one-half a line deep, 

 cross section probably obovate-cordate, apparently very shortly 

 stipitate in the calyx, white with a dense, very short pubescence. 

 The leaves are two to three inches long, of about ten leaflets, 

 which are close set, three lines long, elliptical to oval, obtuse; 

 petiole one to two inches long; whole plant hoary with close, 

 fine, short hairs. This has the look of A. Utahensis, but with 

 shorter and stouter flowers and longer peduncles. It may not 

 belong at all to the Eriocarpi, but its true position cannot be 

 made out without mature pods. Collected by S. B. Parish in 

 Bear Valley on San Bernardino Mountain, Cal., June, 1892. 



To this I refer a specimen collected by Miss Eastwood on 

 Cantua Mountain, Cal., May 19, 1893. I^ either belongs here or 

 is a new species. The nodes are a little longer, short stems 

 much branched; leaflets two lines long, oval; pods shaggy with 

 dense long hairs as in ^. Utahensis, hooked at the end as in this 

 species; whole plant shaggy and hoary; pods immature. Mani- 

 festly closely allied to A. Utahensis. 



Astragalus leniiginosns, Douglas. To this species I have 

 referred with some doubt a plant sent by Mr. Brandegee from 

 L,one Pine, Cal., May 16, 1890. It has the long peduncle of the 

 var. Fremo7iti. The calyx is oblique and like that of Hedeoma 

 Drutnviondi, a line long with lobes as long and subulate, cleft 

 deeper above, hoary with white appressed hairs, flowers and pods 

 horizontal; keel abruptl}^ incurved to more than 90°, a line 

 shorter than the ascending, linear-oblong wings which are 

 rounded at apex, light purple; banner light purple, a line 

 longer than wings, nearly erect, large, sides reflexed; peduncles 

 four inches long, longer than the leaves, ten to fifteen-flowered 

 above the middle, racemose; pods congested, oval, abruptly 

 short-pointed, three-quarters inch long, one-half inch wide, 

 papery, glabrous, or very minutely pubescent when young; 



