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lanceolate and rather acuminate, apparently entire, 3-4 inches long, the 
lower auriculate clasping and the upper hastate clasping. Fruit i na long 
and simple raceme 1-3 feet long which is densely flowered with ascending 
fruit. Pedicels an inch long and filiform, with stipe nearly as long and 
ascending. Fruit about 2 inches long, by 2mm. wide, slightly torulose, later- 
ally flattened, a little arched, ending in a short beak about 1-2 mm. long. 
Flower not seen. Frequent along the roadside at Huntington, Oregon, June 
25, 1930. The species of Stanleya are described as perennials, but S. elata 
is a biennial, and this is clearly an annual 
Populus balsamifera L. In 1930 I had exceptional opportunity to study 
this species in the Wallowa mountains, Oregon. There can be no doubt of 
the specific identity of this and P. trichocarpa, the difference being only var- 
ietal. The tree has the same habit, the leaves are the same, the only differ- 
ence lies in the hairy pod of trichocarpa, a character truly not specific. 
Nolina Bigelovii was a conspicuous plant near the upper slopes of the 
mountain at Oatman on the eastern side, and reminded me of the magnifi- 
cent Yucca Whipplei of our California slopes. The panicles were several 
feet long and rather golden yellow and wand-like and long stalked. I found 
both male and female plants in full bloom about the middle of June. 
the same tendency to be trailing, but I incline to think the two species belong 
in the same group of the inflati. 
Astragalus Cobrensis Gray. As shown in my revision of the genus this 
and few pods. The pods are narrowly oblong and blunt at both ends and 
triquetrous-cordate in cross-section and pendent. The plant was in fruit 
early in May, 1930. 
Astragalus Thurberi Gray. This plant does not seem to have been 
collected very often, if at all, and is not mentioned by Coulter in the Flora 
of Texas, though it ought to be common in western Texas, nor by Standley 
part of the state, growing in the same situations as A. playanus, and often 
with it. It would be easy to confound it with small forms of playanus, but 
so far as I have seen it does not hybridize with it. I have one collection 
