-124 Inflati 
Pods linear and laterally compressed, about 2 cm. long, incurved, 
traslucent and very thin. Lower Columbia Basin, Lower Temperate 
life zone. Seldom collected. 4 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. ineptus (Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 525 
(1865) as species.) Leaflets narrowly to broadly elliptical, 
Common in the sagebrush valleys along the eastern face of the Sier- ` 
ras from Walker Lake northward. ^A. lentiginosus var. floribundus 
Gray is a form with acuminate pods, and A. salinus is a form with 
broad leaflets and short globose pods, both inter-grading with the 
type. Forms with broader flowers about 1.5 cm. long and large 
leaflets and papery pods nearly 2 cm. long from Wyoming and Utah 
inter-grade freely with the var. diphysus. Lower Temperate life 
zone, in rather alkaline places, : 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. albifolius n. var. This is a form with 
filiform peduncles 5-6 cm, long, little white flowers about 8 mm. long, 
broad sessile leaves about 8 cm. long, pods oval-ovate and apiculate, 
narrowly-elliptical, long-petiolulate, silvery-white leaflets about 1.5 em. 
long, with closely appressed pubescence of short white hairs, and stems 
2-3 ft. long. Internodes long. It is a remarkable variation. Lone 
Pine Owen’s Valley California, in alkaline meadows. Lower Tem- 
perate life zone. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. Sierrze n. var. Pods mottled, single to 
few 1.2-1.5 cm. long and almost sessile in the axils on very 
short and stout peduncles, leaves all petioled, about 3 cm. long, with - 
about 8 pairs of oblong-obovate thick and smooth leaflets closely 
touching, and with short internodes. Stems about a foot long. Root 
thick and woody. In gravelly soil Bear Valley California, Middle 
Temperate life zone, in open spaces. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. MacDougali (Sheldon) Jones Cont. 
7 673 (1895). A. McDougali Sheldon Minn. Stud. 9 169 (1894). Pods 
densely clustered, many, globose, about 7-10 mm. long and wide, very 
abruptly and obliquely, flat tipped, on subterminal stout peduncles 
nearly as long as leaves. Leaves 5-7 cm. long, with nearly 10 pairs 
of smooth oval to elliptical leaflets about 1 cm. long. Stems about 
erect, a foot high, branched below. San Francisco Mts. Arizona. 
Middle Temperate life zone. i 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. nigricalycis Jones Cont. 7 674 (1895.) 
Peis few at the ends of peduncles about as long as leaves, smoothish 
and mottled when mature, oval-ovate, with very short and deltoid 
oblique tip, about 2 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, greatly inflated. 
Flowers about 1.2 cm. long. Calyx black-hairy, teeth a fourth as long 
as tube. Leaves about sessile, 5-7 em. long. Leaflets 8-10 pairs, 
oblanceolate, 1.5 cm. long. Stems ascending, a foot or two long. 
Whole plant softly and rather sparsely woolly. Bakersfield and Al- 
calde California in open flats, Tropical. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. scorpionis n. var. Pods coriaceaus, 
pvate, abruptly hooked and claw-like, hardly 1 cm. long. Flowers 
about 8 mm. long with elongated banner and wings, calyx campanu- 
late, leaflets small, oval.to elliptical, Peduncles half as long as 
leaves. Morey Peak Nevada No. 6365 Purpus, and Brandegee from 
the Yakima region Washington 1883, and No. 896 McBride from Em- 
 mett Idaho. Middle Temperate life zone. Flowers white or purple. 
_ _ Astragalus lentiginosus var, Idriensis Jones Cont, 10 63 (1902). 
ods lanceolate, often arched to a circle, about 2 em. long, when not 
greatly obeompressed the cross section is triquetrous-cordate,- other- 
wise rather didymous and transversely linear. Flowers purple-tipped, 
_ about L5 em. long and very narrow, the wings and banner elongated, 
and the keel normal.that is half-spatulate and the blade about 3 
times as long as wide. Calyx cylindric and about 5 mm. long and 2 
