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never less than halfthe whole. Leaflets acute at beth ends, often 
folded, stiff, not petiolulate nor contiguous, 10-13 mm. long. Stip- 
ules hyaline, very hairy, about 1 cm. long. Stems hardly 1 dm. long, 
«auch branched, densely leafy, rather stout, woody, prostrate, with 
‘hort internodes. Pubescence of the whole plant even to the pods, 
b:acts and outsides of petals shaggy with long white hairs which are 
¿Ote appressed on the leaflets and less dense on the pods. This grows 
n dry and rocky ridges in the sagebrush in the Sierras from Summit 
Nevada Co. California and northward to Oregon, along with A. Hook- 
euanus, Eriogonum umbellatum, and Symphoricarpus. Middle Tem- 
perate life zone. - 
129 Astragalus Spaldingii Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 524 (1865). A. 
Zhaetodon Torr., not Bunge. Pods erect or ascending, 5-7 mm. long, 
long oval, straight or rare!y concave (very seldom a little arched 
nd sharp-pointed and laterally flattened), obliquely apiculate or rarely 
triangular beiked, with ventral suture a little convex (but not as much 
> sue dorsai), rarely at all sulcate dorsally, usually shaggy-pubescent, 
arely less so, rounded at base and filling the slightly inflated calyx, 
with cross-section nearly round but a little flattened laterally. Flow- 
ers 7-10 mm. long, white. erect, im dense heads which are about 2-3 
cm. long and which mostly elongate to spikes in fruit. Banner oval, 
veined with purple, about 4 mm. long, arched abruptly to erect at tip 
of calyx, with sides reflexed about I mm. wide. Wings 4 mm. long, 
narrowly and obliquely elliptical, a little arched, fully 2 mm. longer 
than keel and 2 mm. shorter than banner, about 3 mm. wide. Keel 
very short, about 1 mm. longer than calyx, about 2 mm. high and 2 
mm. long, delio.d, purple. Calyx very villous, about 3 mm. long, cam- 
panulate io nearly hemispherical in fruit, rounded at base, with the 
teeth threadlike and about 4 mm. long, Pedicels none. Bracts seta- 
ceous, about 4 mm, long, with threadlike tips. Peduncles about twice - 
25 long as the leaves. Fruiting spikes 2-7 cm. long, often loose at base. 
Central leaves about 1 dm. long, the upper ones sessile. Leaflets 7-12 
mm long, 8 10 pa rs, laneeolate, to linear-oblong, cuspidate. Stipules 
ubulate, green. produced into long and threadlike tips about 1-1.5 cm. 
‘ong. Stems slender, many, decumbent, 1-2 feet long, nearly simple, 
with slender internodes. Pubescence long-villous over the whole 
slant, especially on the calyx, less dense on the leaves, with hairs sin- 
uous, very slender and attached by a pustulate base. This species is 
rather conmon on hills and plains of the Columbia Basin to Baker 
City on the east and Honey Lake on the south, not in the Flathead re- 
gion. Middle Temperate life zone, in gravelly and clay soil. - 
130 Astragalus Brauntoni Parish Bull. S. Cal. Acad. Sci. 2 26 
(1902). Pods oval-ovate, about 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide and 1 mm. 
high, notched at base, abruptly rounded at both ends, chartaceous, 
softly short-villous, spicate, reflexed on a stout pedicel 1 mm. long, 
with straight dorsal suture and upturned acuminate flat beak about 1 
mm. long, with longitudinal section half-oblong-oval, with cross-sec- 
tion oblately deltoid-cordate and pod broadly sulcate to the middle 
and septum produced nearly to the ventral except at tip. Flowers in 
a spike 5-7 cm long, reflexed, about 1 cm. long, pinkish, with petals 
about as long as calyx and teeth. Banner nearly round, 3-4 mm. long, 
but little arched, about 2 mm. longer than wings, with margins a little 
reflexed all around. Wings broadly oblong, rounded, 2 mm. wide, 
about 1 mm. longer than keel. Keel about 3 mm. long and high, the 
tip rounded to a litte more than a half circle, the upper side about 
straight, the longitudinal section half-cuneate-obovate. Calyx cam- 
panulate, 3-4 mm. long and nearly as high, rather truncate below and 
inserted on the lower corner and sessile in flower, hardly oblique above, 
with filiform, green, lax lobes nearly twice as long as tube. Bracts 
filiform-subulate, thin, lax, about 1 cm. long. peduncles rarely 5 cm. e 
long, much shorter than the leaves. and rather shorter than the fruit- - 
ing rachis. Leaves 1-2 dm. long, recurved, narrow and tapering, short- - 
.. petioled, with short tapering leaf-rachis. Leaflets nearly 15 pairs, ob- 
