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playanus, but has a filiform stipe nearly as long as calyx, May 1902, 
Brandegee. 
54. Astragalus pictus Gray Pl. Fend. 37. (1849) as Phaca and Proc, 
Am, Acad. 6 214 (1864) as var. foliolosus. A. pictus var, angustus Jones 
and angustus var. pictus and A. angustus Jones, A. foliolosus Shel- 
don, A. ceramicus var, Jonesii Sheldon, A. pictus Steud. was a no- 
men nudum and A, pictus Boissier & Gall, (1859) was a synonym of A, 
conduplicatus Bertol. (1864). The omission of Sheldon to see that 
A. pictus was never published though this fact was specifically stated 
by Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. 6 215) has led to several unnecessary syn- 
onyms. The type of this species is rare and so the general character 
of the species is given under the var. magnus which see. Pods oblong- 
oval, about 1.5 cm. long. Leaflets 3-7 pairs, linear and about 1.5 cm, 
long. Santa Fe New Mexico and extending over into the Navajo Basin 
to Moctezuma canon on the borders of Utah and to Moab. 
Astragalus pictus var. magnus n. n. A. pictus Gray Proc. Am. 
Acad. 6 215 as to the description, not eitation, My specimens no. 5160 
from Silver Reef Utah constitute the type. Pods oval, inclined to be 
shortly-conical-acute at both ends, 2-3 cm long and 1-2 cm. wide and 
high, mostly shallow-suicate along the ventral suture, papery and 
inclined to be transiucent, abruptly contracted at base into the stipe 
which is nearly as long as calyx tube, the tip inclined to be a little 
oblique and upturned but not always, pendent, few to single, weed- 
bearing along the middle, Flowers very light-dirty-purple and water 
lined coarsely, about 1 cm. long, stubby. Banner round, about 5 mm, 
long, bent square off just beyond calyx tips to erect or a little more; 
groove very wide, a half circle, 2 mm. wide below, 3 mm. above: 
blade with branched purple veins and no white spot; sides reflexed 
but very little, not extending beyond the keel because of being so 
much arched. Wings barely longer than keel, very obliquely ovate 
with tip bent at right angles and acutish on the lower side or a little 
notched, about 3 mm. wide. wholly concealing keel. Keel with straight 
base then arched to & half circle and tip acuminate and erect, about 
3 mm. high, and dull purple. Petals with white claws. Pedicels slen- 
der, 2-3 mm. long, and variable. Calyx tube turbinate-campanulate, 
About 2 mm, long, obcompressed above, rounded at base and equally 
inserted, sinuses broad and teeth subulate and a little shorter than 
tube, equal, not deeper cleft above. Peduncles filiform, spreading as are 
the leaves, 2-5 cm. long, flexuous, axillary, the rachis as long or 
longer and loosely few-flowered, Stems flexuous, very slender, rarely 
a foot high. with few internodes 1-3 cm. long, single at the ends of 
long and filiform rootstocks, Stipules green, triangular, erect, con- 
nate, rarely 5 mm. long, those of the rootstocks sheathing and with- 
out tips and often 1 em. long. Lowest leaves very small and with 
about 3 pairs of oval to elliptical, contiguous leaflets 5 mm. long, 
or absent, the npper leaves with linear leaflets 2-5 cm. long and rarely 
2 mm. wide, the uppermost leaflet a mere prolongation of the rachis 
and a trifle widened and longer than rest. Leaves, peduncles and stems 
about alike, all green, phyllodia-like. Frequent on sandy plains from 
western Nebraska through Wyoming to centra] Utah, Johnson's Pass 
Aqui Mts. (West of Faust) and Milford and southward to the Colo- 
rado river and eastward through central New Mexico to the plains 
of Kansas. Lower and part of the Middle Temperate life zone. Bloom- 
Bip ended R. R. Rep. 12 part 2 t. 
Astragalus pictus var. filifolius Gray Pac. en. 
T. A. (1860) as er and Proc. Am. Acad. 6 215 (1864). Psoralea 
longifolia Pursh, Phaca longifolia (Pursh) Nutt., A. ceramicus Sheldon, 
A. ceramieus var. imperfectus Sheldon, A. angustus var. longifollus 
(Pursh) Jones. Leaflets either reduced to the filiform rachis or the 
