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Colorado and northward to the Grand River, and doubtless occurs 
in eastern Utah south of the Uinta mountains. 
ASTRAGALUS HAYDENIANUS Gray var. MAJOR. Subdecumbent 
or nearly erect; leaflets 7 to 9 pairs, narrowly elliptical to linear- 
lanceolate, very obtuse, apiculate; whole plant nearly glabrous, but 
pods more pubescent and pedicels villous; bracts narrowly lance- 
olate, acuminate, longer than the pedicels; calyx deeply cleft, 1% 
lines wide and long, exclusive of the lobes, with scattered black 
hairs and black-ciliate throat; lobes with a deltoid base and 1% 
lines long or va flowers 6 lines long, cream- ha banner ascend- 
ing; cl ings conspicuous; flowers twice as narrow as A. 
bisulcatus; an spreading but seldom pen ddeke narrowly oblong- 
elliptical, rugulose-veiny, straight, or generally curved, 5 lines long 
by 1% lines wide, shortly acute at both ends, ventral groove not so 
deep and the dorsal also a little impressed. 
Collected June 20, 1890, in flower and fruit at Johnson, south- 
ern Utah, on alkaline flats, or meadows. 
ASTRAGALUS HAYDENIANUS Gray, var. NEVADENSIS. Tall, 2 
to 3 feet high; leaflets 8 to 10 pairs, obovate to ovate-oblong, very 
obtuse or retuse; whole plant nearly glabrous, but calyx and young 
pods pubescent with white hairs; bracts rather broadly lanceolate 
and scarcely acute, shorter than the shortly-white-villous 2-line-long 
pedicels; calyx a little over a line long and wide exclusive of the 
es; lobes nearly equal in length and shorter than the tube; flowers 
4 lines long and 1 line wide, nearly white, subverticillate and very 
numerous, soon reflexed; banner reflexed, shorter; wings scarcely 
equaling the keel; pod not evidently rugulose, short-pubescent, 
about 5-seeded, papery, nearly or wholly pendent, barely acute at 
each end, elliptical, 4 lines long and 2 lines wide, or smaller; proper 
peduncles barely as long as the leaves; spikes very long and slen- 
der, often 8 inches long. 
Collected June 14, 1882, at Palisade, Nevada, in Meadows. I 
distributed this as ‘‘ Astralagus n. sp.?’’ in my sets o 
ASTRAGALUS ARGILLOSUS. Allied to 4. favus. Czespitose; root 
short-lived, perennial or biennial; stems 1 to 8 inches long, ascend- 
ing; whole plant 6 to 12 inches high, hoary throughout with close- 
pressed, rather long hairs; stipules connate, large, with long subu- 
late tips; peduncles subscapiform, as long as the leaves; leaves 2 to 
