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45 degrees, with sides reflexed at base about 1 mm. wide but not above, 
thick and rather fleshy below, the groove deep and haif-round and 
waterlined, about 5 mm. longer than keel. Wings about 2 mm. longer 
than keel, linear, straight, about 1 mm. wide, with horizontal tips. 
Keel 7-8 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, strongly incurved from near the 
middie to erect or nearly so at the tip which is blunt and rounded and 
about 4mm. high. Calyx nigrescent with appressed black and spread- 
ing white hairs, with tube about 7-8 mm. long, a little inflated, some 
what narrowed at tip, nearly truncate at base and somewhat obliquely 
inserted, cleft deeper above, about 3 mm. high. with pubescence be 
coming shaggy and long and somewhat spreading, with teeth subulate, 
arcuate, black and 3 mm. long. Pedicels very short and stout, much 
exceeded by the triangular spreading bracts which are 3-4 mm. long. 
Peduncles 5-8 cm: long, slender, brown and like the petioles buta little 
thicker. Leaves many, rosulate, 5-10 cm. long, not very narrow, with 
petioles about aslong as the rachis. Leaflets 3-6 pairs, oblong to nar- 
rowly elliptical, 8-13 mm. long, rather thin, shortly acute at both ends 
but sessile, not contiguous, thinly pubescent with closely appressed 
but rather long hairs, the whole plant with a kind. of lead: color. The 
crowns are mostly single and thick with innumerable old and brown 
leaf-petioles, the 'stipules narrow and rarely visible. Acaulescent. 
"Roots slender; very long and erect. This very distinct species rarely 
hybridizes and yet is a close relative of A. Newberryi but has a much 
restricted range.’ It grows on sagebrush benches in the foothills une 
der the shade of the bushes, rarely in the open when it is more con: 
densed. . Common in the Oquirrh Mts. Utah and. westward to. Detroit 
but not yet found in the Deep Creek Mts, southward to Cove Fort, 
Cedar City and Richfield, eastward from Eureka and Silver City to 
Nephi, but not yet found in the Wasatch. Lower Temperate. life 
zone, in well drained gravel on slopes. This was referred to A. Thomp- 
sonae: ("syrticolus“)-by Sheldon but it has little in common with: it. 
It blooms in May. > : cien 
177 Astragalus coccineus (Parry) Brandegée Zoe 2 72 (1890). ^. 
Purshii var. coccineús Parry West Am. Sci. 7 [0 (1890): «A. grandiflo- 
rus Watson not Bunge. Itis unfortunate that this magificently flow- 
ered species cannot retain the name of Watson for its flowers, are 
comparable only by the yellowish A. giganteus.and the later A. fune- 
reus. Pods alittle inflated. inclined to be suicate beiow the middle at 
both sutures and obcompressed; the cross-section about round above, 
with the conical tip short and about ás wide as high, pods about.3 cm. 
long and 1 cm. wide, oblong, a little wider above the middle, arched 5o 
that the tip is erectior a little more incurved, the base truncate, the 
sutures neither raised nor ‘thickened, the walls 1 mm. thick when 
fresh, and full of. pulp, seeds: filling the eavity which is hairy within 
when fresh and with elliptical cross-section then. Flowers red, very 
narrow and with exserted claws (which are-at least as long as -calyx} 
and narrow blades, the whole about 3 cm. long. Banner eiliptic-oval, 
about 1.5 cm. long, arched about 10 degrees in very gentle arc from 
calyx teeth to7 mm. beyond where the groove stops and then straight 
‚to the tip, the sides reflexed about 4 mm, wide and most below giving 
the blade an oblong appearance, groove obovate and not over 7 mm: 
long, narrowed. below, the cross-section about U-shaped, red-veined, 
it stops about 1 cm. below the tip and then becomes a mere line to tip 
which is flat and 8-10 mm. wide. „Wings nearly. 1.5 cm. long and ;2 
mm. wide, about parallel.with the upper side of keel and straight, a 
| cute on. the lower side.of the end, the ear. being as. long as the rest of 
the blade and extending,1:cm, beyond the calyx tube, a little shorter 
than the keel. gvecheomen bet obliquely oblanceolate, straight, trian- 
x l , 
E ‚gular-acute, 4’mm. wide.near the end. and with the tip just a .little 
| above the middle.of the-end, about as long as banner. The petals are 
_ much like those of Colutea. Cal hardly 1 cm. long, about 3 mm. 
sigh, the cross-section rather triquetrous 
with upper side 1 mm. wide — 
