Davis (Wheeler’s) Peak, and probably north through the desert, 
Growing in strongly salty places in clay, along with Sarcobatus. 
Blooming in May, fruiting in June, | 
: 98. Astrayalus Rafaelensis N. Sp. Pods oblong, nearly round, 
about 1.5-cm. long and 5-8 mm. wide, abruptly rounded at both ends, 
-with very short and deltoid apiculate beak, the ventral suture con- 
spieuously arched and the dorsal nearly straight, reflexed on stout 
pedicels, which are 3-5 mm. long and which fully equal the ovate 
bracts, in long racemes on slender peduncles, splitting through both 
-sutures to the base till the valves fall away. Flowers reflexed early, 
light-purpie or white and tinged ‘with pink, scattered. Banner nar- 
rowly ovate, about 2.5 em. long, wtih sides inclined to be reflexed 
which makes it seem linear-oblong, barely notched, the reflexed 
area about 3 mm. wide at point 3 mm. back of keel but not at all at 
tip. White spot deltoid, barely colored except for the light-purple 
veins, 3-5 mm. long. : Groove a half circle at keel tip and 1 mm. deep 
and shallowing quickly, the banner a little hooded at tip, and erect 
at point 4 mm. beyond the calyx tips. Wings nearly straight, ob- 
long oblanceolate, base 2 mm. wide and 3 mm. wide above, pink at 
base and white beyond keel and 6 mm. longer, acutish but rounding 
toward tip. Keel straight, arched to 100 degrees in a sharp arc at 
the end, deep purple and barely acute. Calyx pink, about as long as 
wide, barely laterally. flattened, straight, smooth; scarcely narrowed 
at tip and cleft but little deeper there, nerved. Teeth triangular, 2 mm: 
long..Tube.4 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, hyaline. red. Pedicel inserted 
about. one third the way from the lower corner, about 2 mm. long. 
Stipules connate nearly to the tip below, nearly distinet above, re- 
flexed, nearly hyaline throughout. Leaves more filiform than usnal 
channeled, of 1-2 pairs of delicate leaflets which are rarely over 1.5 cm. 
long. The plants grow in very dense tufts with very many stems in 
a bunch from a woody root, about 2 feet high, straight, in sanfy 
places on sandstone ridges, there being no particular evidence cf 
alkali, though soil is alkaline near Cedar Mt. Utah which is near 
Woodside, 4500 feet alt. in the Lower Temperate life zone. May 
19, 1915. This is an interesting addition to this group and is evi- 
dently closely allied to A. Toanus. 
99. Astragalus Grayi Parry Am. Nat. 8 212 (1874). Pods erect 
to ascending, narrowly-oblong, taper-pointed, not splitting the calyx, 
about 3 mm. wide, little more than coriaceous, half-exserted from 
calyx, about like those of A. Toanus, its thicker forms but not com- 
pressed, the dorsal suture nearly straight and tip the prolongation of 
it, ventral decidedly arched and pod appearing inverted. not fleshy 
noticeably. Flowers rather spicate, many, on subterminal peduncles 
longer than the leaves. Calyx teeth inclined to be subulate. Leaves 
about 8-10 em. long. Leaflets 2-4 cm. long, not folded* apiculate, | 
about 4-5 mm. wide, a little wider above, jointed to the rachis, 2-3 
pairs. Internodes about 3 cm. long. Green River Desert Wyoming, 
sandy hills. -> 
100. Astragalus pectinatus Douglas in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1 141-2 
t 54 (1830). Tragacantha Kuntze. Phaca Hook. Ctenophyllum Ryd- 
berg. Pods closely reflexed, oblong-oval to elliptical, rarely nearly 
globose, obtuse but very strongly apiculate-beaked, rare'y: triangular- 
acute and oblong, conspicuously fleshy and with sutures raised at least 
1 mm. in the dry pods, splitting the calyx ‚generally rugose, 1-1.5 cm. 
long, 9-12 mm. wide, about 4 mm. thick, normally 9 by 7 mm. long and 
wide, when fresh the pods are traversely oval in cross section and a 
- little sulcate ventrally, the dorsal suture a little raised. Flowers nor- 
. mally rich cream-colored, white below, about 1.3-2 em. long. Banner 
_ arched from 45 to 90°, sides reflexed most above and making it seem - 
_ taperpointed, tip very thin and erose, base thick and fleshy. Calyx 
teeth inclined to deltoid. Bracts stiff, green or scarious, linear-lanceolate - 
