263 Hamosi. 
bus var. aberrans Jones. The leaflets vary from 2 to 10 mm. long. 
Pasco Wash., Mitchell Oregon, and on the John Day and Bruno 
rivers Oregon. Howell, Cusick, Elmer. Lower and Middle Temper- 
ate life zones, mostly in more humid places than the type, and less 
pubescent. j i 
229. Astragalus Mulforde Jones Cont. 8 18 (1898). Onix 
Rydberg. Pods very thin and 1-1.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide and 
high, very slightly concave along the ventral suture in the middle 
only, convex at both ends, often much so, from triangular-acute to 
bluntly apiculate at both ends, the tip being in line with the dorsal 
suture, the body half-elliptical to broadly half-oval, 2-5 mm. high 
in extreme cases, abruptly slender-stipitate and stipe about equaling 
the calyx tips to 3 times as long, minutely pubescent and finely reticu- 
lated, shallow sulcate dorsally, opening along both sutures to base, 
cross-section about deltoid, with concave sides. Flowers about as 
in A. campestris, short and arched, about 7 mm. long, dirty white and 
 "purple-tinged, many, in long racemes, ascending to reflexed. Banner 
waterlined, abruptiy arched to erect or more just beyond teeth, 
deeply and broadly grooved to tip, the groove 1 mm. deep and 2 mm. 
wide, occupying all of the upper half of the banner, with sides 
reflexed about % mm. wide below and not at all at tip, the ban- 
ner appears nearly square as you look at it. Wings obliquely ellip- 
tical, nearly 2 mm. wide in the middle, 2 mm. shorter than banner, 
the right hand one folded over the end of keel, the other flaring and 
then both tips touch, both concave to keel and obscurely notched 
below tip, fully 2 mm. longer than keel and arched, white and 
waterlined. Keel very short and abruptly rounded to nearly a half 
circle, very blunt, slightly darker above. Calyx tube rather obliquely 
as keel 
AB kee 
