CATALOGUE. 
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(Parry) and Western Wyoming, (Niittall.) East Humboldt Mountains, Ne- 
vada, and in the Walisatcli, Utali ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June-August. 
This species should include A. diversMius, Gray. (288.) 
AsTEAGALUs siMPLiciFOLius, Gray ; /. c, 231. Perennial, caespitose in 
dense cushioned mats ; leaves 4-5^' long, hoary with an appressed silky pu- 
bescence, simple, linear or spatulate-lanceolate, acute, frequently involute, 
crowding the extremities of the numerous short (h') branches ; scapes scarcely 
exceeding the leaves, 2-3-flowered; flowers 3" long, purple, the bajincr and 
wings longer than the strongly arched keel ; calyx-teeth nearly equaling the 
obconical tube ; legume 4" long, half included in the calyx, oblong, acute, 
subcompressed, glabrous, thick and coriaceous, 1-celled, the ventral suture 
straight and very acute, the dorsal gibbous, about 12-ovuled. — Collected only 
by Nuttall near the sources of the Phitte, Found near Wahsatch Station on 
the Union Pacific Railroad, on the summit of the divide between the AVeber 
and Bear Rivers ; 7,000 feet altitude ; May-July. Plate XII. Fig. 3. 
A stem ; natural size but unusually large. Fig. 4. Calyx ; enlarged eight 
diameters. Figs. 5-9. Parts of the flower ; enlarged four diameters. (289.) 
AsTEAGALUs Kenteophyta, Gray; /. c, 231. Perennial, Ccespitose, 
hoary with a short silky pubescence ; stems 2-4' long, numerous and branch- 
ing, prostrate, rigid ; stipules membranous, mostly connate, often setaceously 
or spinosely acuminate ; leaflets 2-3 pairs, 2-4" long, linear-subulate, usu- 
ally rigid and divaricate, pungent, not jointed with the rachis; flowers 2" long, 
upon short pedicels (1-3) in the axils of the leaves, ochroleucous or tinged 
with violet ; calyx-teeth setaceous, equaling the campanulate tube ; legumes 
2-3'' long, subchartaceous, sessile, pubescent, ovate, acuminate, subcom- 
pressed, somewhat incurved, 1-celled, 3-4-ovuled, 1-2-seeded, the valves 
separating at maturity. — New Mexico, (Inscription Rocks, Bigelow,) Colo- 
rado, and Wyoming. On dry barren hillsides in Monitor and Holmes Creek 
Valleys, Nevada ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (290.) 
Var. ELATUS. Stems elongated and erect, 6-18' high, scarcely branched ; 
not otherwise different from the usual prostrate form. Holmes Creek Valley, 
Nevada; September. (291.) 
OxYTEOPis CAMPESTEis, L., Var. visciDA. (O. viscida,l^iitt.) Hairy 
and viscid throughout with a resinous exudation ; scapes 3-4' high, equaling 
the leaves ; keel tipped with purple.— Collected by Nultall near the sources 
of the Columbia. Specimens in Herb. Gray, of Bourgeau's from the Rocky 
