271 RA 
Flowers 3-7, remote, whitish or purple-tipped, 4-6 mm. long. Ban- 
ner oval, arched abruptly at calyx tips to nearly erect, 3-4 mm. 
"long, a little longer than wings. Wings lobed or enlarged at the 
end, obovate, about as long as keel. Keel with an acute and ascend- 
ing beak but variable. Calyx tube short-campanulate, 1-2 mm. long, 
the slender and lax teeth as long as tube. Bracts and pedicels mi- 
nute. Peduncles 4-10 cm. long, somewhat longer than the widely 
spreading leaves, in the upper axils. Upper petioles short, the 
lower 1-2 cm. long. , Leaflets 5-7 pairs, broadly oblong-obovate, 
folded, 4-10 mm. long, very short-petiolulate, thickish and puberu- 
lent. Stipules deltoid and very small. Stems diffusely branched be- 
low, with the habit of A. Nuttallianus, a foot or two long. Internodes 
few and long. On the hot plains from Hawthorne Nevada to Mex- 
ico along the eastern face of the Sierras and southeastward to the 
Charleston Mts. Tropical. 
242. Astragalus nothoxys Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 232 (1864). 
Oxytropis Jones. Aragallus Heller. Pods pungently acute, scarcely 
contracted below, 2-3 mm. high, nearly 2-celled, smooth or nearly 
so, sulcate to the middle dorsally, nearly erect. Flowers white and 
purple-tipped, 8-10 mm. long. Banner oblong, 5-7 mm. long, 
abruptly arched at calyx tips to 80^, with sides reflexed about 1 
mm. wide below. Wings linear below and with enlarged, rounded 
and obovate tip, 2-4 mm. longer than keel. Keel with arcuate tip 
2 mm. high, exserted not over 2 mm. beyond calyx tips, the body 
about 3 mm. long and 1 mm. high. Tipped with a threadlike beak. 
Calyx tube narrowly campanulate, 3-4 mm. long, with straight base 
and arched upper side, 1-2 mm. high, cleft deeper above, oblique and 
thickened at base. The subulate teeth unequal and about half the 
tube. Pedicels 2-3 mm. long in fruit, slender, about twice the ovate 
bracts. Peduncles 5-15.cm. long, appearing as if subscapiform, ax- 
illary, rachis several flowered and rather short. Leaf petioles from 
2.5 cm. long to none. Leaflets oval-obovate, mostly notched, thick, 
mostly flat and appearing as if glaucous, with the pubescence minute, 
about 6 pairs, 4-7 mm. long. Stipules subulate, green, 2-4 mm. long. 
Internodes short and plants very leafy, stems a foot or less long, very 
many and branched below, decumbent at base. Whole plant nearly 
smooth. Catalina Mts. Arizona. Tropical. Puerta de St. Diego 
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Chihuahua Mexico, Lumholtz. Blooming in April. | 
