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and one-half a line longer than the wings; stipules green, rather 

 stiflf, reflexed, triangular, acute, two lines long. 



Astragalus near to Parishii. Vallederos Creek, Lower Cal., 

 May 4, 1893. Stems ascending, many from a perennial root, a 

 foot high, nearly smooth; peduncles four to six inches long, 

 longer than the leaves; flowers small, three lines long, yellowish, 

 spicate at the tip of the peduncle, reflexed; calyx campanulate, 

 tube a line long, teeth triangular, one-half a line long; pods 

 an inch long and half as wide, broadly elliptical, sessile, spicate, 

 horizontal, one-celled, chartaceous, much inflated, barel)^ acute, 

 dorsal suture much more convex than the ventral, ventral suture 

 somewhat inflexed, sutures thin; seeds rather large, on short 

 stalks, confined to the middle of the pod as in most of this group, 

 several; stipules triangular, not reflexed, two lines long; pedicels 

 less than a line long, about equaling the ovate bracts; petiole 

 an inch or less long; leaflets oblong, about eleven pairs, obtuse 

 at apex and acute at base. The pods are finely reticulated, 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent when young. 



I. Astragalus hQivi&en oocaypiis 2iV^ Paj'ishii. San Pedro Martir, 

 Xower California, May 6, 1893. About the same as A. Parishii, 

 but stipules almost hyaline and seldom reflexed; peduncles twice 

 as long as the leavCv^, with yellow flowers above the middle; pod 

 one and one-half inches long; keel arched, wings very much so. 

 It is quite probable that one polymorphous species will cover 

 most of this group. 



Astragahis Hookeriamis Gray. This neat little group repre- 

 Vsented by two supposed species can be described so far as known 

 in two words, i. e., pods balloon-shaped. Mr. Brandegee's speci- 

 mens from Susanville, Cal., June 30, 1892. Stems a foot high, 

 decumbent at base only; very minutely pubescent; leaflets 

 elliptical to linear one-third to an inch long, acutish, about seven 

 pairs; leaves two to four inches long and proper petiole less than 

 an inch long; peduncles four to six inches long; flowers racemose 

 near the end of the slender peduncle, in fruit distant; pods tWo 

 inches long, half as wide, papery, finely reticulated, more or less 

 spotted, rounded at apex and tapering into a stipe, ascending 

 or nearly erect, much inflated, sutures very small and not at all 



