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pubescence very variable. Stipules rather scarious, with deltoid base 
and subulate tip, rarely 5 mm. long. Stems rather prostrate and with 
ascending tips, many from a thick and fleshy root, flexuous, 2-3 ft. long, 
growing on flats where it is rather alkaline. Being the first green 
things in the spring this species has the reputation of being a loco 
weed, From the southern San Joaquin valley to southern California, 
and San Pedro Martir, Lower California, Lower Temperate life zone, 
in the interior, mostly. : 
Astragalus Douglasti var. Parishii (Gray) Jones Cont. 8 6 (1898). 
A. Parishii Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 19 75 (1883). Pods oval to oblong, 
oblique, usually apiculate, often 5 cm. long, smooth to minutely pubes- 
cent, nearly round in cross section. Flowers white. -Banner 2 mm 
longer than- keel, 1 mm, longer than wings. Wings oblanceolate, nar- 
rower than keel. Keel about 4 mm. high. Calyx teeth from half as 
long as tube to very short. Leaflets 7-10 pairs, elliptical, obtuse, 2-3 
em. long, silvery-pubescent below. Stems about 2 ft high. From 
Antelope Valley southward along the mountains, 
Astragalus Douglasii var. glaberrimus Jones Cont. 7 645 (1895). 
Pods hali-oval, shortly and triangular-flat-beaked, 2.5-4 cm. long, round 
in cross section, reflexed. Flowers 6-10. Racemes very lax. Pe- 
duncles 1-1.5 dm. long including the rachis which is two-thirds the 
whole. Leaflets about 7 pairs, linear-lanceolate, very sharp-pointed, 
1-2 cm. long, 2 mm. wide, distant. All but the very uppermost leaves 
netioled. Plants rarely a foot and half high, rather bushy branched at 
base. San. Fernando and Los Huevelos Lower California, ‚Brandegee. 
Astragalus Douglasii var. piscinus Jones Cont. 7 645 (1895) and 
Cont. 10 61 (1902). Pods obliquely ovate-oblong, 2 cm. long, 1.2 em. 
wide, rounded at base, papery, sulcate ventrally, shortly acute, round 
in cross section, nearly smooth, ascending. Flowers purple, 1 cm. 
long, loosely spicate-racemose, almost sessile. Banner ascending 
Sharply to 45 degrees remote from calyx tips, with sides reflexed. 
Wings about 7 mm. long, lanceolate, arched 30 degrees, a trifle longer 
than keel. Keel 1 mm. shorter than banner, 7 mm. long, large, arched 
to erect. Calyx broadly campanulate, 2 mm. long and wide, twice as 
long as the triangular teeth. Pedicels very short and a half shorter 
than the ovate bracts. Peduneles floriferous on the upper third, the 
racemes 5-10 cm. long, stiff. Leaves sessile. Stems erect. Stipules 
minute, not connate. Whole plant almost smooth. Lagoon Head Lower 
California, Palmer. j 
Astragalus Douglasii var. Tejonensis Jones Cont. 7 644 (1895) and 
Cont..10 61 (1902). Pods mostly ascending, half-oval-ovate, 2.5-4 cm. 
long, 2-3 em. wide, nearly round in cross section, variously reticulated, 
nearly smooth when ripe. Flowers like the var. Parishii but banner 
not elongated. Keel tip but little incurved and broader. Calyx lobes 
subulate and half as long as tube. Flowers racemose, usually ascend- 
ing, often distant. Floral rachis in flower 5-7 cm. long, in fruit 10-15 em. 
long. Peduncles and rachis 1-2 dm. long, finely gulcate as are the 
stems. Leaves and leaflets as in Parishii but leaves 7-13 em. long and 
ascending., Leaflets 10 pairs, not over 2 cm. long, elliptical to oblong- 
lanceolate, rounded at tip, 4-5 mm. wide. Proper petioles present. 
Plants green throughout seemingly but really with the same minute 
pubescence but less evident. It is readily separable from Parishii by 
the small-cream-colored flowers, long calyx lobes, broad leaflets and 
ereen appearance. This is the common form along the mountains north 
^f the San Bernardinos, A. Douglasii can be separated from A. macro- 
don only by the pubescence. S un REC quc 
63. Aati bahita allochrous Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 13 366 (1878) A. 
. Wootoni Sheldon. Pods half-oval, thin-chartaceous, slightly if at all 
‚sulcate, apiculate and barely acute, faintly and rather closely retieu — 
‘ated, apparently smooth when ripe but really minutely puberulent, — 
about 1.5 em. high and 3 cm. long, with ventral suture convex only.  — 
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