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Leaves nearly sessile, about 1 dm. long, narrow. Leaflets 10-14 pairs, 
narrowly elliptical, about 1-1.5 em. long, obtuse. Stems weak and 
short, decumbent, floriferous throughout, with slender internodes, about 
a foot long. Stipules small, Pubescence rather scanty, appressed and 
nearly straight. Santa Barbara and Catalina Island California. Nut- 
tall, Lyon. The type species has rarely been collected. In it the stems 
are stouter and appearing as if erect. - Species confused with the next 
by Gray and with A. Antiselli. Specimens sent out as typical got by 
Gray from Santa Paula are A. Antiselli. California botanists and the 
writer have also confused it with the next. 
70. Astragalus capillipes n. sj. Pods about 2.5 em. long and 1 em, 
high, about 3 mm. wide, greatiy laterally flattened, half-oval, the 
ventral suture a little convex toward the tip, apiculate. Flowers 
1.2 cm. long, white, not stubby, in spikes. Banner oblong, about 1 
em. long, but rather variable, rather abruptly erect remote from the 
calyx, with sides reflexed above, about 4 mm. longer than wings. 
Wings broadly linear, about 1 mm. longer than keel. Keel straight 
and tip triangular and erect and rather narrow, obtuse. Calyx about 
2 mm. long and wide, very oblique at both ends, truncate at base, 
teeth minute and deltoid one-third to one-fourth as long as tube. 
Pedicels about as long as calyx and longer than the bracts. Pedun- 
cles many, axillary, about 1 dm. long, with pods racemose and rachis 
?bout 5 cm. long. Stems erect, 2-3 ft. high, nearly simple. Stipules 
small, triangular and green. Leaves about 1 dm. long, about sessile, 
With 15-20 pairs of narrowly elliptical leaflets about 1 cm. long, ob- 
tuse or notched, nearly contiguous, very minutely pubescent with 
short and fine appressed hairs, The type is material from Blanche 
Trask Catalina Island, also material from the island from Brandegee. 
I refer here also No. 1338 Orcutt from San Telmo Lower California, 
with some doubt. 'The character of stubbiness in a flower for the 
most part is a valid one as opposed to a narrow flower with long 
banner, but falls down in A. procerus, and may fail in the separation 
of Crotalarie from vestitus, and lencopsis from what has been called 
leucophyllus, just as the characters of woolliness and silkiness may 
fail in the same groups, but must be maintained till clearly proven t^ 
intergrade. Should this distinction fail this species will then be A. 
trichopodus var. capillipes. 
71. Astragalus leucophyllus T. € G. Fl 1 336 (1838). Phaca leu- 
cophylla (T. & G.) Hooker & Arnot, not A. leveophyllus Willd. (1800) 
which is a synonym of A. anenstifolius Lam. (1783). A. asymmetricus 
Sheldon, A. leucopsis var. asymmetricus (Sheldon) and var. leucophyl- 
lus (T. & G.) Jones. Pods a little more than half-oval, the ventral 
suture being a little convex in the middle, about 3 cm. long, on a 
hoary supe as long as pod, tip and base deltoid or barely pointed, in- 
clined to be a little obcompressed, pendent. Flowers 1 cm. long, 
many, ascending. Banner ne?rly round to oval, about 5 mm. long, 
gently arched from calyx tips to 45 degrees, with sides reflexed about 
1 mm. wide in the middle, barely 1 mm. longer than wings. Wings half- 
elliptical, veiny, obtuse, about 2 mm. wide, about as long as keel. 
Keel about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. high, the base a little arched and 
then rounded to erect and tip cut off nearly square, about 3 mm. high 
at tip, not colored, Calyx tube oblong-campanulate, about 5 mm. long 
and 3 mm. high, not oblique below and barely so above, nearly equally 
inserted on the thick pedicels at the fleshy base, cleft deeper above, 
teeth subulate from a deltoid base, about half as long as tube. 
Fruiting pedicels about 4 mm. Jong, as long as the lanceolate hyaline 
bracts which are conspicuous. Peduncles about 1 dm. long and half as 
long as fruiting rachis,. Leaves 6-8 cm. long, not narrow, nearly ses- 
sile, rigid, with stout and channeled rachis. Leaflets thick, nearly 
linear, about 2 cm. long, rounded, or acutish, nearly contiguous, 14-18 ——— 
pairs. Stipules rather falcate triangular, 5-8 mm. long. rigid. erect, — 
