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mens; stipules large, connate below, acuminate and hyaline. 
n Mr. Parish’s specimen the pod is nearly two inches long, 
linear, contracted at base and sessile, sulcate dorsally, and dorsal 
septum intruded to the middle of the cell, apex of pod acuminate 
to an almost thread-like tip which is laterally compressed, pod 
slightly obcompressed, finely corrugated, coriaceous, rather 
sparsely villous-woolly when ripe, ventral suture rather promi- | 
nent; pedicels very short; bracts ovate and rather large. In 
rs s specimen the pod is completely divided by the 
intrusion of the dorsal sulcus from the base nearly to the apex, 
much obcompressed by necessity from the curving of the pod 
into a circle, ventral suture ridged; perennial and many branched 
from the base, erect, stem very short. 
The above descriptions are drawn from the types. I find that 
the pods have much shorter pubescence which is more generally 
appressed; the plants are less branching and peduncles more 
inclined to be subscapose, and the flowers are more inclined to 
be racemose; the sulcus is more open and wider; pods narrower 
than A. malacus. Specimens collected by Mr. Brandegee, at 
Inyo, Cal., April 15, 1892, clearly connect the two. The flower- 
ing specimen of the Herb. Cal. Acad. has white or ochroleucous 
flowers with only a tinge of purple at the tip of the parts; calyx 
that of A. Laynee and pods of A. malacus with the short 
pubescence on them of 4. Laynee,; pods not at all obcompressed 
but decidedly compressed; general habit of A. Laynee. The 
fruiting specimen on the same sheet has nearly the calyx of 4. 
malacus and its branching caulescent habit, but the pods are 
those of 4. Laynee. I also have specimens of 4. malacus from 
Western Nevada with pods much like those of 4. Laynee but 
nothing to warrant the reference that Mr. Brandegee’s specimens 
require. I find in Mr. Brandegee’s specimens that the keel is 
as often without a beak as with, and so that character fails. 
Astragalus Gibbsit Kell. (A. cyrtoides Gray.) The type 
in the Herb. Cal. Acad. has eight to ten pairs of obovate-cuneate 
leaflets which are so deeply notched as to be obcordate occasion- 
ally, at other times they are scatcely notched at all, seven lines 
or less long, four lines or less wide, shortly petiolulate; petiole 
less than an inch long; stems and peduncles grooved; corolla 
