3s 281 Micranthi. 
Astragalus Seatoni var. Crucis n. var. Pods narrowly oblong, 
and.shortly acuminate, 8-12 mm. long. Flowers about 4-5 mm. 
long. Upper stipules large, ovate and green.  Leáflets narrowly 
oblong, 1 em. long and 3 mm. wide. Pringle's No. 6445 Sierra de 
Las Cruces at 10,000 ft. alt., state of Mexico, August 13, 1896. 
.. 263. Astragalus Goldmani n. sp. Pods half-oval, about 5 mm. 
long, 3-4 mm. wide and 2 mm. high, ashy, cordate at base and about 
sessile, truncate and minutely deflexed-apiculate at tip, narrowly 
sulcate to the middle dorsally and wholly 2-celled to tip, rather flat 
or. rounded ventrally and the suture thickened but not raised and 
straight to a little concave, cross section reniform to triquetrous- 
reniform, not cross-ribbed, closely reflexed in linear spikes 1-2 dm. 
long. Flowers white or ochroleucous, soon refiexed, 5-7 mm. long, 
stubby and wide. Banner nearly round, about 3 mm. long, abruptly 
arched to erect at end of calyx tube and with sides reflexed 1 mm. 
wide. Wings broadly oblong and blunt, arched 30°, as long as ban- 
ner and 2 mm. longer than the half-circular keel which is fully as 
high as long and rounded and purple-tipped. Calyx hemispherical, 
cleft deeper above, equally inserted, nigrescent or silvery hairy on a 
minute and reflexed stout pedicel, teeth triangular, rather shorter 
than the tube. —Bracts filiform, white, about 3 mm. long. Peduncles 
1-2 dm. long, strict, in the upper axils, fruiting rachis often 3 dm. 
long, rather loosely fruited. Leaves about sessile above, rarely 1 
dm. long, with elliptical-oblanceolate leaflets 1-2 cm. long, which 
are long-petiolulate, rather distant, thin, sparsely to densely white- 
hairy with rather tangled hairs fixed by the base and sometimes 
rather woolly, leaflets on the lower leaves small and obovate, mostly 
rounded and obtuse but sometimes shortly acute. Stipules triangu- 
lar-subulate, 4-6 mm. long, green. Stems slender, erect or decum- 
bent only at base, 2-3 ft. high, simple, tufted from a slender and 
rather woody root. Probably Lower Temperate life zone. The type 
is No. 335619 National Herbarium, Goldman’s No. 119 from Parral 
Chihuahua Mexico, Sept. 19, 1898. Lower Temperate life zone. 
E. A. Goldman. Other specimens which I refer here are Palmer's 
No. 440 (Nat. Heb. 304738) from Pasquiaro Durango, 1896. Near 
Santa Gertrudis Tepic, Aug. 8, 1897, J. N. Rose, No. 302355, a 
woolly form with nigrescent calyx as in the type. E. Palmer No. 
278 (Nat. Herb. 571298) from Tepehuanes Durango, June, 1906. 
This is a very robust form with stout stem and densely white-vil- 
lous and white calyx. 
264. Astragalus Clevelandi Greene Torr. Bull. 9 121 (1882). 
Pods about half-oval-ovate, with ventral suture inclined to be a 
little concave and with declined, pungent and minute triangular tip, 
broadly suleate dorsally, smooth, very rigid, 5-6 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide, 1-2 mm. high, with cross section deltoid-cordate. Flowers 
about 5 mm. long, in spikes which in fruit are often a foot long. 
Banner round, about 2 mm. long, with sides reflexed % mm. wide, 
arched abruptly at end of tube to 45°, a little shorter than wings. 
"Wings oblong and with a lanceolate tip, arched to 45°, fully 1 
mm. wide, fully twice as long as keel. Keel arched to a half circle 
from base, obtuse, about 2 mm. high and long. Calyx broadly 
campanulate, equally inserted below, rather oblique at tip and 
with very broad upper sinus, with teeth unequal, subulate and as 
long as tube or more, ashy: Pedicels and’ bracts minute, about 
equal, the latter triangular, 2 mm. long. Peduncles filiform, 5-10 
em. long, strict, many. Upper leaves sessile, the lower smaller 
and short-petioled, 5-7 cm. long. Leaflets 5-12 mm. long, narrowly . 
elliptical, obtuse, , but minutely pubescent, long-petiolulate. —— 
= Stipules subulate, about 4 mm. long. Stems a foot or two 
. very slender, ascending to erect, with peduncles in all the upper | 
Internodes slender but shorter than the leaves. Lake County, | : E 
stragalus Purpusi Jones Cont. 14 34 (1912). 
