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tip and 3 mm. shorter than the banner. Calyx from campanulate and 
4 mm. long and wide to 9 mm. long and cylindrical, the teeth subu- 
late and as long as tube to only a third as long. Peduncles subter- 
minal. Middle leaves 1-1.3 dm. long and with 2-3 pairs of narrowly 
elliptical to linear-lanceolate leaflets which are 2-3 cm. long, and 2-7 
mm, wide. Lowest leaves 2.5-5 cm. long, with 3 pairs of oval leaflets 
about 1 cm. long. Uppermost leaves with nearly linear leaflets and 
all with a white mucro, the uppermost very sharp, all petiolulate. 
Petioles, peduncles and stems sulcate, barely tapering. Lower stipules 
byaline, very wide, 2-5 mm. high, distinct, the upper one striangular, 
reflexed, 2 mm. long. Internodes about 5-10 cm. long. Stems weakly 
erect, about 2 ft. high, tufted. Growing where alkali seeps out on 
slopes in Big Indian Canon west of Hawthorne Nevada, 
108. Astragalus pachypus Greene Bull. Cal. Acad. 1 3 157 (1885), 
Pods 2.5-4 cm. long, 7 mm. high, 2 mm. wide, smooth, much wrinkled 
when dry, but round and even when fresh, narrowly oblong, with 
sutures very thick and raised (faint at the short, triangular and 
sharp tip) and uniting at the base into a solid obconic and thick stipe 
about 1 cm. long, the tip: of pod erect.| Seeds short-stalked, flat round 
2 mm. wide. Banner about 1.5.cm. long. Wings about 3 mm. wide, 
arched to 45 degrees and a trifle longer than keel. Keel about 5 
mm, long and 4 mm. wide and with the erect and triangular and 
acutish tip 7 mm. high and purplish. Calyx tube reflexed to horizon- 
tal, about 3-5 mm. long, hyaline, nigrescent. Bracts small, broadly 
ovate, hyaline, 2 mm. long. Pedicels ascending, about 5 mm. long, 
stout, longer than the bracts. Peduncles stout, scarcely sulcate, 1.5-3 
dm. long, longer than the leaves, few-flowered on the upper fourth of 
their length. Leaves slender. Proper petioles 1-5 cm. long and with 
the rachis deeply sulcate along the upper side. Leaflets 8-11 pairs, 
linear, folded, ashy. Stipules connate below, triangular, small. Stems 
rather stout, rigid, flexuous, with the upper part and young leaves 
minutely white-pubescent. This grows in loose and rather alkaline 
soil on slopes at Bealville California, also at Mt. Pinos Venture Co. 
and by Parish at Cajon Pass. bear 
