110 Inflati 
rachis with a few filiform leaflets. Stipe sometimes twice the calyx. 
Otherwise as in the var. magnus. More common. 
55. Astragalus vestitus (Benth.) Watson Bib. Index 202 (1878). 
Phaca vestita Bénth. Bot. Sulph. 13 (1844). This antedates A. ves- 
titus Boissier A, Heldr. Diag. Pl. 1 pt. 9 98 -(1849).- Tragacantha 
Kuntze, A. anemophilus Greene, Pods from nearly oval to half-oval, 
. rather angled than pointed at both ends, the tip being deltoid and 
- very short in the type, variously spreading with dorsal suture barely 
sulcate and ventral decidedly so, often to one-third the depth; hoary to 
minutely ‘pubescent. Flowers nearly in heads in the type, about 1 
em. long, wide and stubby, white or rarely purpled tipped, “soon re- 
flexed. Banner fleshy below and with thick claw, the tip oval and 
very short, arched remote from the calyx to nearly erect and with 
sides reflexed a trifle as a mere rim around the edge, the -blade 5-7 
mm. long, scarcely longer than the wings and keel. Wings oblong, 
nearly straight, rounded, little arched, veiny, about 1 mm. or less 
longer than keel. Keel with straight base and then abruptly erect, 
the tip*broad and very obtuse, about 3 mm. high, purple. Calyx tube 
. Short-eampanulate, about 4 mm. long and 3 mm. high, oblique at base 
‚and rather truncate,.inserted near the middle, cleft deeper above, 
‘hoary, the triangular: teeth about half the tube. Pedicels in the 
. „type almost none. Petioles absent or 3 cm. long. Leaflets 10-14 pairs, 
‚oval to elliptical, truncate to acutish, 1-2 cm. long. Stipules connate. 
.Pubescence white-woolly in the type. A very variable species. Mag- 
-daiena Bay Lower California. ; ; pem 
-. . Astragalus vestitus var. Menzies!! (Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 217 
(1864) a8 species). Phaca densifolia Smith, A. densifolius (Sm.) Torr. 
Phata Nüttallii T. & G. Pods papery and rather translucent, 3-5 cm. 
long, 2-3 cm. wide and high, obliquely ovate to oval, puberulent, keeled 
‚ventrally and rather sulcate, reflexed. short-racemose, Flowers cream- 
colored, thick, about 1.2 em. long, reflexed. Calyx tube shortly-cylin- 
‚dric-campanulate, about 4 mm. long and nearly as high, cleft deeper 
above, slightly pubescent; teeth about half as long as tube.and subu- 
late from a deltoid base. Pedicels slender, 3-4 mm. long, equaled or 
a little surpassed by the the very thin and hyaline and. narrow 
bracts. - Peduñcles 1-1.5 dm. long, mostly longer than the leaves and 
longer than'the floral rachis. Leaves sessile or the lower. only short- 
petioled, about 1 dm. long. Leaflets 15-19 pairs, elliptical: with a cu- 
neate base, rounded to notched,.1-2 cm. long. Stipules connate ex- 
cept at the uppérmost nodes, papery ‚and conspicuous, Stems erect 
to, decumbent, from a woody base, rather. stout, 2-3 feet long. Pubes- 
^! -ucence thinly woolly and soft throughout except on the calyx... Common 
on open hill sides ánd, plains from San Francisco southward along 
the coast. .' > O a ; ies Spore, f 
Astragalus vestitus. var. Franciscanus (Sheldon Minh. Bot. Stud. 
9 133 (1894) as species)... A. Franeiscanus var. longulus Sheldon. A. 
Crötalarie var., virgatus Gray. »Phaca Franciscana: ( Sheldon) '' Heller. 
Stipules connate. only near, the base of the stems. Pods many an? 
Often erect. Pubescence ashy or minute but evidently the rúdiments 
of woolly hairs. Calyx lobes rather subulate and “as “long -as tube. 
. Same range as the var. Menziesii and freely intergrading.- This 
variety is more.strict and less inclined to be decumbent. =. :+* 
-_. 56. Astragalus Pomonensis Jones Cont. 10 59*(1902); “Pods abon* 
. 5 em. loig and -nearly 3-cm, high and wide, about halval, cónspic 
. uoüsly oblique, very blunt with a very short and deltoid tip'not longe” 
than wide, smooth when mature, ascending-in dense swabs at th- 
. ends of stout peduncles which are about 1. dm. long aña- much shortc- 
Pi 
‚.. than the leaves. Flowers and calyx as:in A. Menziesii in sho" 
Spikes shorter than the peduncles. Leaves about:2 dm. long; sessilr. 
_ Leaflets about 2 em. long, oblong, a trifle wider: below, truncate 7* 
__ Up and cuneate and long-petiolulate at base.- Stems many and tufted, 
