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with racemose and scattered inforescence often a foot long, ercet, This 
is ciearly a close relative of A. junceus though the pods and flowers are 
decidedly different. It grows in sandy places along the Pahria and in 
House Rock valley north of Lee’s Ferry Arizona and southward along 
ihe Little Colorado at least 50 miles. Captain Bishop, for whom it is 
ned also got it probably on the western side of the Kaibab south 
<anab. 
12. Astragalus lancearius Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 13 370 (1878). 
Mature pods rather shiny but minutely pubescent, light-colored, 2-2.5 
cm. long, 5-7 mm. high, flat, ascending when young, horizontal to re- 
flexed when ripe, almost sessile, with apiculate to triangulat ends, 
oblique but nearly straight, abruptly rounded at base, splitting calyx, 
iinely cross-nerved, with dorsal suture straight or rarely a little con- 
cave, but with a convex hump near the tip mostly, tip in line with 
dorsal suture, Ventral suture very convex especially toward the base. 
Fruiting pedicels reflexed, 2-4. mm. long. Fruiting racemes long and 
loose. Flowers in loose racemes, white, with at least the keel and often 
the wings and banner purple-tipped, narrow, about 1-1.5 cm. long, 
straight. Immature pods nearly linear, mostly arcuate and not much 
flattened. Peduncles a foot or two long, sulcate, stout, strict, the rachis 
nearly as long. Banner ovate, arched abruptly at calyx tips to 45 to 
80 degrees, waterlined, with sides reflexed about 3 mm. wide bejow 
and not at all at tip, 2-3 mm. longer ‘than keel, rather remote from it 
aud exposing it. Groove in banner 4 mm, wide at tip, and 1 and one 
half mm. wide and deep below. White spot with 8 broad white lines 
and narrow purple veins, round. Wings 6 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, 
arched, rounded at tip, connivent at tip, concave to keel and 2-3 mm. 
longer than it, oblong-oblanceolate. oblique Keel a little convex 
beivw and sharply rounded to the erect tip above, obtuse, half-triang i- 
lar-cuneate, reddish-purple, 3 mm. high, straight. Calyx tube cylin- 
drical nearly but flattened a little laterally, nearly straight, 3-4 mm. 
long, thin, narrowed below and attached on the lower corner, ashy, 
clett much deeper above, and oblique at tip, with nearly filiform teeth 
lax. Floral pedicels often shorter. than the bracts. Bracts stiff, 
triangular, 2-4 mm. long. Proper stems rarely a foot long, flexuous, 
tew, branched below, from a woody root, erect, green, Stipules green, . 
rigid 3-8 mm. long, reflexed, adnate. Upper leaves reduced to the 
filiform rachis, 3-5 cm, long. Central leaves 7-9 cm. long, with 1-2 pairs 
of folded or nearly filiform leaflets which are rigid, obtuse, ashy, 
hardly opposite, 1-2 em. long, jointed to rachis. Lower leaves shorter 
and often with 1-2 pairs of linear flat leaflets. The plants have the 
habit of A. junceus, but stems rather more numerous, and root much 
branched and woody. This abounds on depressions and cracks in 
the sloping rocks of the San Rafael Swell foot. It blooms early in 
May and fruits two weeks later. The type locality is the Beaverdam 
Mts. west of St. George on the edge of Utah. It is more slender than 
A. Episcopus but tufted in the same way 
13, Astragalus Woodruffi n. sp. Pods broadly linear, about 2 cm. 
long and 4 mm. high, flat, ashy, cartilaginous, erect and appressed, 
sessile, arcuate, not splitting the calyx, the triangular beak with a 
subulate tip and in line with the ventral suture, the base rounded, 
Sutures prominent and equally arched, the ventral concave. Flowers 
brilliant-pink-purple, 1-1.5 cm. long, straight, narrow, erect, rather 
densely spicate. Banner narrowly ovate, ascending 45 degrees in a 
gentle are from end of tube, water-lined, purple throughout and with- 
out white spot, rounded to a trifle retuse, with sides reflexed 3 mm. 
wide below and not at all above. Groove a half circle at keel 
tip and shallowing to a line above and occupying one third the blade. 
Wings broadly linear, arched 30 degrees, about 2 mm. wide, rounded, 
oblique at tip, white beyond keel and a little concave, flaring some 
