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and 2 mm. deep, very broad and large, and shallowing toward the tip, 
white spot M-shaped, large, purple-veined below and stippled -above. 
Wings linear, 2 mm. wide, somewhat ascending, rather. obtuse, tips 
horizontal and connivent, purple throughout, 2 mm. longer than keel, 
and 2 mm longer than banner. Keel straight, bent sharply to erect at 
‚the end, purple, triangular-acute, and 3 mm. high, about 7 mm. long. 
Calyx obliquely cylindrical, the tube about 7 mm long, a little narrow 
attipand base and deeper cleft above, about 3 mm. high, laterally 
flattened, light-colored or reddish, attached in line with the fleshy base 
and with the upper side arched a little and also with the lower side 
straight, loosely short-nigrescent with the wavy hairs little spreading, 
nearly sessile on very stout pedicels. Calyx teeth rather thread-like 
and about one third as long as the tube. Bracts subulate, with filiform 
tips, nearly 1 cm. long, green. Leaves, 1-3 dm. long, very narrow, the 
petiole nearly half the whole, and the rachis conspicuously tapering to 
a fine point and rigid though slender. Leaflets from ovate. and very 
acute to diamond-shaped, 5-20 mm. long, distant, about 5-8 pairs, long- 
petiolulate, ashy with minute and very fine and appressed short hairs. 
Stipules triangular-subulate, 1-1.5 cm. long, green and reflexed, adnate 
but not at all connate. Stems hoary, rarely 1 dm. long, with 5-8 inter- 
modes, ascending from a woody base, much branched, some of the 
nodes 2-3 cm. apart. This grows in red Sand on gravelly slopes near 
rocks or hanging in festoons from the rocks along the Virgin river - 
from Belleview to Little Zion Utah. Lower Temperate life zone. The 
species reminds one of A. Parryi but the pods are those of the amphi- 
oxys group, and the pubescence that of argophy!lus though looser 
and may be an extreme form of it, but the habit is that of sparsiflorus 
and Parryi. The peculiar fleshiness of the fresh pods does not show 
in the dried fruit. 
169 Astragalus remulcus Jones Cont.7 658 (1895). A. amphioxys 
var. brachylobus Gray, not A. brachylobus DC. Pods 2-4 cm. long, 
7-10 mm. wide or high according to the compression, very thick and 
cartilaginous when dry, the walls thick and woody, and the fleshy 
pulp thick when fresh, decidedly oblique but not much arcuate, from 
obliquely ovate to narrowly oblong and very variable in shape, longi- 
tudinally wrinkled and somewhat corrugated vertically, appearing 
nearly smooth bnt minutely woolly, rounded,at base and sessile in the 
calyx, rather blunt at the oblique tip where the thickened sutures are 
united into a very thick flat prow much wider than long which is ab- 
ruptly produced into a nearly round and very stout beak 1-2 inm. long 
which ends in a filamentary recurved style 5-10 mm. long, slightly in- 
flated, ascending and rather appressed-spicate, ventral suture very 
thick (about 1 mm.) and a little raised, dorsal suture somewhat thick- 
ened and raised but not intruded in the type. Pods normally obcom- 
pressed a little below the middle, with oval cross-section, but some- 
times laterally flattened a little and with cross-section vertically oval, 
apparently never sulcate, often appearing 4-angled by the contraction 
ofthe walls at the sutures. Flowers 10-20, loosely short-spicate, al- 
most sessile, spreading, light-colored and purple-tipped, not narrow, 
1-1.5 cm. long, rather stubby. Banner about as long as calyx tube, 7- 
10 mm. long, oval, arcuate remote from the tip of calyx tube ina geu- 
tle arc to 45:90 degrees,whitish or purple-tinged around the edges, 
with sides reflexed a little along the middle. Wings narrowly-oblong 
. and rounded, arched a little, about 2 mm. wide, a little. longer than 
 keeland $ mm shorter than banner, purple. Keel straight, about 5 
mm. long, the end abruptly erect and 3 mm. hig i 
h and with rounded 
apex. Calyx tube broad, 6-7 mm. long and 4 mm. high, flattened lat- — 
. erally a little, short-cylindric, attached in line with the fleshy base,  — 
—— the upper side slightly convex and cleft deeper above, short-wooily, | 
the deltoid teeth about 1-3 mm. long. Bracts ovate to oblong, hyalin 
 long-ciliate, 3-5 mm. long and longer than the stout pedicels. Fedun- 
| ut, about ng as the leaves or more, he floral ra- 
