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SHELDON’S PRELIMINARY LIST. 
This list which should never have been printed ‘was published 
to get the credit of many new names made necessary by the 
Brittonian Code which he followed, and without the exhaustive study 
that a revision would entail, 'There was no original work worth 
mention in it, here and there divisions indicated by "Watson were 
created, and here and there changes: made, which I will mention. 
The .anomalous species, oxtropidoid, he calls Section I Spies- 
ioides and puts A. .acutirostris and nothoxys in it, while they belong 
to separate sections, EIE c as 
Homalobus still contains A; collinus and porrectus’ which belong 
in the Collini A, miser which belongs in the. Inflati of Gray, A. 
debilis (Bodini) which belcngs in the:,Debiles and close to the Alpini 
which Gray would have placed in Phaca probably.. y 
A. speirocarpus is still: kept in the Podo-sclerocarpi. * 
A. griseopubens (campestris) is put in a new section *Famelicus," 
a bontanical hodge-podge, instead. of. in the Homalobi where it 
belongs, A. scalaris is put here while it belongs with the Inflati. 
A. debilis is put here while it belongs with the Debiles. A: sabulosus, 
limatus, prelongus (Pattersoni) are put here while they belong with 
the Preussii; A. reventus is put here while it belongs in’the Revent!- 
arrecti. It also contains A. flexuosus, Hallii, gracilentus, etc. It 
contains A. aridus which belongs with the Inflati.. A Sonore 
(humistratus) is here but belongs with the Homalobi. A. .pych- 
nostachyus is here but belongs in the Inflati. A. troglodytus is here 
but I would have placed it in the Ocreati. A. Virgineus (sabulonum) 
is here but belongs in the Inflati. A. eastánseformis is here but 
belongs in the Argophylli, so also tephredes, Newberryi and Cham- 
zleuce. A. Eastwoodz (Preussii) is here but belongs in the Preussii. 
He renames the Lonchocarpi as Clavocarpus. «rp — ^"^ ^ 
He puts.A. desperatus jn the Inflati, but it belongs in the Argo- 
phylli. He puts A. ampullarius here, but it belongs in the Preussil. 
He puts A. oocarpus here but it belongs in the Inflati. + Ne 
He makes a new section Araneocarpus and puts A. neglectus 
in it instead of in the Uliginosi where it belongs. He puts: A. Texanus 
(giganteus) here when it belongs in the Mollissimi. > + : 
He makes another new section Lanocarpus to hold the Purshii 
group which belongs in the Argophylli. All the above he puts in 
the general Series Phaca. y Eier 
His Euastragalus, corresponding to Astragalus proper of Gray 
he divides up variously. His first section being Sericophyllus con- 
taining another hodge-podge of species. A. glareosus, pephragmenus, 
Parryi, amphioxys, Shortianus, Missouriensis, cibarius belongs in 
the Argophylli. A. triquetrus belongs in the Inflati as^does also 
A. pubentissimus,. Mokiacensis, etc. A. Casei belongs in ` the 
 Podo-sclerocarpi. A. Reverchoni belongs in the Lotiflori. A. Gilensis 
belongs in the Homalobi. A. Beckwithii belongs in the Preussii. 
He renames Watson's Pterocarpi as. Seuticarpi, Beh 
He still keeps A. villosus in “the Lotiflori. er aes 
He still more befuddles the: Oroboidei. He puts A. glaber and 
distortus (Englemanni) here, when they belong elsewhere. A. palans 
` is put her when it belongs in the Inflati. A. obcordatus is put here 
but belongs in the Sparsiflori. A. Sileranus is put here but belongs 
in the Flexuosi. A. Lindheimeri is put here but belongs in the Lept- 
ocarpi. He puts A. lentiformis and Lemmoni here when they belong 
in the Micranthi He puts A. Breweri here when it belongs in tho 
Didymocarpi. He puts A. Ibapensis here ‚when it belongs in the 
Atrati. He puts A. Dodgeanus here when it belongs in the Homalobi. 
