Inflati 125 
mm. wide, the teeth about one fourth as long as tube. Peduncles 
about 6 cm. long and twice as long as the sessile and divaricate 
leaves which have about 10 pairs of obovate leaflets about 1 cm. long, 
thick, appearing as if glaucous, smooth above and ciliate and a little 
appressed hairy below. Stems very slender and widely spreading 
with long internodes and from a woody root. New Idria California, 
Miss Eastwood. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. carinatus n. var. Pods as in the 
var. Idriensis but not often mottled, often long-acuminate. Flowers 
white with purple-tipped keel. Banner oblong, from half as long to 
nearly as long as keel, abruptly arched to 45 degrees at calyx tips. 
Wings linear, straight, about 1 mm. shorter than keel. Keel con- 
spicuous, half-spatulate, about 5 mm. long. Calyx campanulate, the 
tube about 2 mm. long and a little longer than the rather spreading 
teeth. . Peduncles filiform 2-3 cm. long, about a half shorter than 
the leaves. Leaves ascending, all petioled, with about 8 pairs of 
elliptical leaflets which are about 5 mm. long, appearing as if glaucous, 
and ciliate and slightly pubescent beneath as in the preceeding 
variety, but thin. Stems several, equally slender and prostrate or 
nearly so from a slender or rather thick and woody and erect root. 
Baker City Oregon on flats, June 11, 1902, and Chat, California. 
Middle Temperate life zone. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. diphysus (Gray) Jones Cont. 7 673 
(1895). A. diphysus Gray. Pl. Fend. 35 (1849), var. chartaceus Jones. 
Pods ovate and with falcate and variously acuminate tip, or body 
oval but always with the falcate beak, cross section variously reni- 
form to didymous, often 4 cm. long. Leaves all petioled, leaflets 
mostly obovate, rarely elliptical, 8-10 pairs, 1-2 em. long, mostly 
smooth. Peduncles shorter than the leaves which are often 1 dm. 
long. Internodes short, Stems many in tufts, erect to ascending, a 
foot or two high. Flowers about 2 cm. long, purple, with elongated 
banner, the oblanceolate wings rather longer than keel. Common in 
the sagebrush from Santa Fe New Mexico and Holbrook Arizona to 
Wyoming, southern Idaho and the Sierras. This intergrades freely 
into the forms with papery pods. A. cuspidocarpus Sheldon which is 
A. ammolotus Greene, as to Leiberg’s material at least is a form of 
this. Middle and Lower Temperate life zones. A form of this from 
Lima Montana intergrades with the type species. A. lentiginosus var. 
chartaceus Jones is a form intergrading with the var. latus below. 
Astragalus lentiginosus var. latus. (A. diphysus var. latus Jones 
Cont. 3 287 (1893). A. latus Jones Cont. 5 272 1894) also. This is 
a densely czspitose form with woody stems from a stout root and 
herbaceous tips a few inches long and flat on the ground. The pods 
are almost globose and conical pointed, varying to oval with rather 
falcate tip, about 2 cm. long, didymous, often mottled, hidden among 
the leaves on peduncles rarely over 2 cm. long. Flowers light- 
purple, about 2 em. long, very narrow, the banner and wings elon- 
gated. The tubular tube is about 8 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, and 
the teeth triangular to filiform and often half as long as tube. 
Leaves about 1 dm. long, all petioled, with about 6-8 pairs of oval to 
obovate leaflets, a little over 1 em. long and smooth. A remarkable 
variety but nothing else. Rocky canons in the mountains free 
from alkali.. Middle Temperate life zone, Rather common in east- 
ern Nevada. Type locality Aurum, A form of this with tiny flowers 
and globose and apiculate pods rather papery is from Monatchy Mead- 
ows California. Purpus, No. 1971, and is ashy pubescent. 
Astragalus lentiginosus - var. palans Jones Cont. 4 37 (1893) and 
Cont. 8 4 (1898). Pods linear and falcate often to a half circle, 3-4 
em. long and hardly 5 mm. wide, with cross section inclined to be 
triquetrous, sharply acuminte, cross-wrinkled. Flowers purple ado 
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