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decumbent, stout, 2-3 ft. long. Whole plant almost smooth, but calyx 
nigrescent. This plant varies but'little, but is too close to A. Menziesii. 
Common in the valleys from Los Angeles and Pasadena to San Ber- 
nardino and Temecula. 
57. Astragalus Crotalariz (Benth. Gray Proc. Am. Acad 6 216 
(1864). Phaca Crotalariae Benth. Pl. Hartw. 307 (1848). Tragacan- 
that Kuntze. Pods oval, 2 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, about round 
in cross section, a little oblique, shortly pointed and apiculate, rather 
rigid. Flowers purple, about 2 cm. long. Banner elliptical, about 
1.5 cm. long, arched gently to nearly erect a little beyond calyx tips, 
with sides reflexed below, about 4 mm. longer than wings. Wings 
linear, arched to 45 degrees, 2-3 mm. longer than keel. Keel half ellipti 
‘eal, the tip nearly erect. Calyx tube shortly campanulate, about 4 
mm. long and short-pediceled, pubescent teeth triangular and half as 
long. Peduncles about 1 dm. long, heads 2-7 em. long, loosely 6-12 
flowered. Leaves about as in the var. Menziesii but larger and con- 
spicuously pubescent only when young. Monterey California, Coulter. 
An obscure species. 
58. Astragalus Miguelensis Greene Pitt. 1 33. (1887). Pods when 
mature about smooth, oval-ovate, about 2 cm. long, and 1.5 cm. wide, 
the triangular tip about 4 mm. long and arcuate, sulcate at both sut- 
ures, stiff-napery. ascending in dense heads and very shortly pediceled. 
Flowers about 1.5 em. long, light colored. Banner oval, about 1 cm. 
long, arched abruptly at calyx tip to fully erect, thin. Wings linear, 
straight, about 1.5 mm. wide, about 3 mm, longer than keel and as 
much shorter than banner. Keel half-elliptical, about 5 mm. long, the 
tip ascending and acutish. Calyx tube about 5 mm. long and 4 mm 
high, short-campanulate, oblique at both ends, the teeth with deltoid 
base and nearly as long as the sparsely woolly tube. Leaflets 9-12 
pairs, cuneate-oblong-obovate, rounded to notched, densely white- 
woolly. Leaves about 1 dm. long. mostly short-petioled. Peduncles 
5 em. to 1 dm. long, floral rachis short. Stems decumbent, branched. 
Stipules connate. This has much the habit of A. vestitus but the pods 
and flowers are cavitate, and flowers not stubby and seemingly purple 
or purplish. Islands of Santa Rosa and San Miguel, California. 
59. Astragalus Magdalenae Greene Pitt. 1 162 (1888). A. candidis- 
simus (Benth.) Watson. Phaca candidissima Benth. Pods minutely 
mbescent, 2-3 cm. long, oval the tip rather oblique or a little arched. 
Flowers purple-tipped, 1-1.5 em. long, in a dense spike about 5 cm. 
long, almost sessile, Minute bracts twice the pedicels. Banner ovate, 
large, about 1 em. long, arched at calyx tips to erect, 4 mm. longer 
than wings or less. Wings broadly lanceolate, little arched, about 2 
mm. longer than keel. Keel about 5 mm. long, arched from base to 
to tip in about one-third circle, nearly half-oval, about 4 mm. high. 
Calyx black-hairy, campanulate, the tube cleft deeper above. Teeth 
triangular and about half as long as tube. Peduncles one and a half 
times as long as leaves. Leaves 7-12 cm, long. Leaflets 8-15 pairs. 
obovate-cnneate to oblanceolate, not over 1.2 cm. long, rounded to 
notched, barely petiolulate. apnressed-silvery-silky as is the whole 
Mant exrept the merely pnberulent pods. Stipules very small and not 
connate Magdalena Pay Lower California, etc. It appears quite 
distinct but the species is very variable. er 
60. Astragalus oocarpus Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 213 (1864). 
This is fonnded on the figure of Torrey in Mex. Bound t. 17 and named 
Crotalarioides there and called Crotalariz in the text p. 56 but not 
described. Pods rather thin-coriareens. about 2 em. long. 1.5 cm, wide 
and 1 cm, high. oblinnely ovate, with flat upturned deltoid tip about 3 
mm. long. slightly sulcate ventrally. not at all dorsally and with dorsal | 
suture raised externally as thick ridge. smooth. only faintly reticulated, 
|. erect, several to many and racemose on a stout peduncle shorter than — 
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