| cuneate obovate and with tip obliquely tr 
Hamosi. 260 
keel. Keel about 3 mm. long, nearly straight then abruptly erect 
and tip a little out-turned and acutish, nearly 3 mm. high, about 
equaling the calyx tips, purple-tipped. Calyx tube about 2 mm. 
long, acutish and a little oblique at base, about equaled by the subu- 
late teeth, nigrescent. Pedicels very short and bracts minute. ` 
Peduncles filiform, rather shorter than the leaves, 2-3 cm. long, axil- 
lary, hardly as long as the fruiting rachis. Leaves 3-4 cm. long, 
with the petiole nearly as long as its rachis, many but open. Leaf- 
lets 4-5 pairs, rather obovate, often notched, nearly 1 cm. long, 
not contiguous. Stipules small. Stems very slender and flexuous, 
weak and spreading, branched, apparently from slender: underground 
stems from a perenial root, but possibly winter annuals, about a 
foot long. Blooming in May. John Day river Oregon Howell. 
Middle Temperate life zone. 
224. Astragalus Congdoni Watson Proc. Am. Acad. 20 360 
(1885). Pods minütely pubescent when mature, densely so and 
often nigrescent when young, shortly acuminate and inclined to 
have tip declined, reticulate, loosely racemose, closely reflexed, about 
2 cm. long, and 2-3 mm. wide and high, rather cordate in cross 
section, the ventral suture thick and with sharp edge along the 
middle, barely acute at base. Flowers white, narrow, rather closely 
racemose, reflexed. Banner oblong-ovate, about 1 em. long, arched 
abruptly about 2 mm. beyond calyx tips to 45°, with sides re- 
flexed about 1 mm. wide below, nearly 5 mm. longer than wings. 
Wings oblong, arched 30°, about 2 mm. longer than keel. Keel 
about 4 mm. long and high at tip, the base proper about 1 mm. 
long, the rest a rather deltoid erect and acutish not darker tip 4 
mm. high. Calyx tube about 4 mm. high inserted near the lower 
corner on a stout black pedicel, black-woolly, teeth rather shorter 
than the tube, subulate from a broad base, the lower the longer: 
Pedicels almost none.  Bracts hyaline, triangular, about 3 mm. 
long. Peduncles about 1 dm. long, sulcate and stout mostly, as long: 
as or shorter than the fruiting rachis, erect. Leaves 5-10 cm. 
long, narrow and tapering, the upper sessile or short-petioled, the 
middle ones the largest, with 8-10 pairs of leaflets 1-1.5 cm. long 
which are contiguous, softly silky with hairs often tangled. In- 
ternodes congested below and stems very leafy. Stipules green,. 
large, deltoid. Stems decumbent, slender, about a foot long, 
rather simple but with many woody branches at base. Fisher’s: 
Cabin and Hite Cove in the Sierras. Middle Temperate life zone. 
This grows in rocky places and blooms in May and June. Collected 
by Congdon. 
225. Astragalus Andersoni Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 524 
(1865). Pods 1.5-2 em. long 3-4 mm. high, about 2 mm. wide, 
narrowly-oblong to nearly linear, triangular-acute to blunt and 
apiculate, nearly straight to arched to one-third circle, mostly a. 
little reflexed, rounded at base, early falling off and leaving the 
empty calyx, with ventral suture raised and thickened and sharp 
along the middle, splitting the calyx, 1-celled at tip, with cross 
section narrowly to broadly cordate, narrowly sulcate dorsally, 
softly and variably silky-woolly. Flowers normally white but often 
pink or tinged with pink, short and stubby, broad, in heads at 
first or spicate and ascending, later inclined to horizontal. Petals. 
very thin, rather translucent. Banner oblong-ovate to oval, 6-8 
mm. long, arched abruptly at end of teeth to 45° or rarely erect, 
with sides reflexed about 2 mm. wide below, about 4 mm. longer 
than wings; groove U-shaped below; and V-shaped above; white 
spot striped when present, wings oblong-obovate, very oblique, 
acutish, about 2 mm. wide, notehed, concave to keel and touching 
beyond it, purplish below and white above or all white, 1-2 mm. 
longer than keel, inclined to be oblanceolate and wavy toward tip, 
variously arched. Keel about 4-5 mm. long and 3 mm. high, half- 
