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‘early deciduous 3-cleft bracts, subacute or equaling the flowers, 
Fruits obliquely oval-ovate, half an inch long and mottled, with 
glands much as in D. Johnsoni. Leaves many, nearly seswile on 
a stout petiole with 6-20 pairs of oval to nearly round and ulti- 
ches long, Green River Utah, May 28 1914 P. coll. 
No. 28257 and Willow Spr. Ariz., June 11 1:99, Jones. Plants 
puberulent throughout 
Astragalus Vaseyi Wat. I had never seen this growing till 
Apr. 2 1933. It seems confined to the Mexican border on the 
dry and sandy washes of the steep southern slopes of san Jacinto 
mt., in the Lower Temp. life zone, with Pinus monophylla. Wat- 
sun describes it as a doubtful annual. It is clearly a biennial or 
winter-annual for the great mass of stems now making a mat on 
the ground could not have grown from seed since the snow melted. 
It has the same habit as A. Coquimbensis Reiche which antedates 
A. Thurberi Gray, in growing flat on the ground in great tufts 
from a single taproot. I have seen similar looking plants with 
the silvery leaves which I assumed were A. lentiginosus but may 
have been this species. The fruits are manifestly stipitate in some 
cases and flattened ventrally and are obliquely half-elliptical and 
with the suture straight nearly to the flat and incurved tip, T 
pods are about round in cross-section and conspicuously inflated. 
alea Hutchinsoniz n. sp. Pinos Altos mts. N. M. 
Sept. 23 1931, under pines, in open places. Weak annuals a few 
inches high, erect, with capillary stems and leaves which are 
smooth. Leaves above reduced to anaked rachis and always green 
and with scattered and depressed glands. Stems racemosely 
branched from the base, and ending in a short head or spike a- 
bout half an inch long and on a capillary peduncle. Calyx long- 
white-pilese, 3-4 mm. long, with the subulate lobes as long as the 
tube, Tube with 5 dark-green very prominent and raised nerves. 
Flowers purple and rudimentary. Leaflets 1-2 pairs, an inchlong .5 
mm. wide. This seems to belongto the alopecuroides section. com- 
mon in the forest at 7800 ft. alt. Named for Mrs Susan W. Hut- 
chinson, a member of my party, specially interested in the genus. 
_ _ Dalea Hutchinsoniae var. anomala n, var. Chit- 
icahua mts., Ariz. in Rustlers’ Park, Sept. 22 1931, 8000 ft, alt. 
and green bracts, and subulate calyx lobes which arise from a del- 
toid base. Calyx conspicuously 5-ribbed with raised and black 
ribs 3mm. long. Flowers minute, purple, Leaflets 2-3 pairs’ ¢ 
linear-oblong and retuse members about 1 inch long by 2-3 mm 
wide. This connects with alopecuroides. 
