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pubescent, chartaceous, oblong (4" long,) straight, subcompressed, slightly 
Bulcate dorsallj, 2-celled, many-ovuled, about 10-seeded. — Ceespitose and 
subalpine ; leaves occasionally palmately 3-foliolate ; legume 2-celled, though 
the septum appears incomplete in immature pods. Found in the West Hum- 
boldt, East Humboldt, and Clover Mountains, Nevada; 8-11,000 feet alti- 
tude ; June-September ; also collected by Dr. Torrey, in flower only, in 
Western Nevada. Plate X. Fig. 4. A single stem ; natural size. Fig. 5. 
A dissected flower. Fig. 6. A mature legume. Fig. 7. Cross-section of the 
same; all enlarged two diameters. (257.) 
AsTEAGALus Andeesonii, Gray. Proc. A?ner. Acad., 6. 524. Perennial, 
canescent with a very soft sub villous pubescence ; stems 1° high, ascend- 
ing ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, adnate to the petiole ; leaflets 7-12 pairs, 
3-5" long, oval or oblong, rarely obovate ; peduncles exceeding the leaves ; 
spikes short, densely many-flowered ; calyx-teeth setaceous, about equahng 
the campanulate tube, half shorter than the ochroleucous (J' long) corolla ; ^ 
legume |-1' long, chartaceous, oblong-linear, arcuately incurved, subcom- 
pressed, completely 2-celled, sessile, deflexed, 12-20-seeded. — Near Carson 
City, Nevada, (Anderson.) Found in the same region near Washoe City ; 
5,000 feet altitude ; May. (258.) 
AsTEAGALUS MALACUS, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 7. 336. Perennial, 
villous with rather rigid white hairs ; stems subdecumbent, J-2° long ; 
stipules large, scarious, triangular, acuminate, adnate to the petiole ; leaflets 
6-8 pairs, 3-8" long, obovate, retuse; peduncles exceeding the leaves; 
racemes short, many-flowered, lengthening in fruit ; the cylindrical calyx-tube 
often dark-villous, 2-3 times longer than the setaceous-subulate teeth ; corolla 
usually deep-purple, 6-9" in length ; legume oblong-lanceolate, 1' long, 
3-4" broad, arcuately incurved, sessile, deflexed, somewhat densely villous, 
chartaceous, subcompressed, with a shallow dorsal sulcus, 2-celled, acutely 
margined ventrally, many-seeded.— Collected near Carson City, by Dr. 
Anderson, and frequent in the Virginia and Trinity Mountains, Nevada ; 5,000 
feet altitude ; April, May. (259.) 
AsTEAGALUS CANADENSIS, L. From the mountains of Georgia to 
Northern New York, Canada and the Saskatchewan, and west to the Indian 
Territory ; collected also on the head-waters of the Columbia by Douglas. 
Found in the Wahsatch Mountains, (Provo Canon,) Utah; 6,000 feet altitude ; 
July. (260.) 
