CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY N©. 13 GO 



of stamens at least 1 mm, from fhe margin. Then conies a more or 



• less double row of warty processes, mostly deltoid in outline, vertically 



• grooved and acut^, and almost as wide as long and thick, and often 

 : more or less united below, with solid interior, and corky, and 3-4 mm. 



high, yellowish, sitting on the disk and' not a part of the edge, as 

 though they were, abortive ovaries, then come the two to four follicles 

 placed on the disfc just as the warts are. These warts var>^ from 7 to 

 14, and are very conspicuous after flowering. The stamens have anthers 

 that are quadrangular before anthesis. When they open the colls open 

 along tlie middle, leaving a ridge, and He "flat, back to back, makin.^ 



■pened 



I F 



Bailey dees not mention 



figure the genus. These notes are from fresh material f/cm Claremont, 



California growing in the wild. 



4 



. Astragalus erv'oides Hooker & Arnot. This species lias aluavs been 

 an enigma, for it has revtr been collected fince its discovery lyy Dr. 

 Sinclair between San Bias and Tcpac, western Mexico, and pnFlishcd in 

 the Botany Beechey p. 417. It would seem tliat in "Dalca B. "L. "Robinson, 

 Bot. Gaz. 1898 p. 443 has done Ix^tanisls a real service in IrM-fng the 

 bugaboo Parosela which the Brittonians have set up to displace "Dalea L. 

 He shows that in the Species PTantarum p. 764 Linnaeus pul)li,4v:>s Dalea 

 as a synonym of Psoralea Daleae, citing Hort. Cliff, ?:6:"^ t. 22 as the 

 place of publication. This tlien becomes a proper publicalion df the 

 renu.s Dalea, and which antedates Paro.^ela Cavanilles. making the 

 change of many names of Dalea wholly unnece.-sar}', as was done by 'Vuil, 



Astragalus crotalarioides Bth. Ivan Johnston, who ha^ exa mired the 

 t>pe of this species abroad informs ttie that it 'is -surely A. TImatus 

 Slieldon. This then takes another puzzle out of the genus. 



Astragalus oocarpus. Recent botanizing has extended the -range of 

 this very rare species. The tvpe locality was surely near Julian, vfiicve it 

 is still found. I also found' it in 1926 on the Warner lake Cuayamaca 

 drainage under pines. In 1927 I also found it on the Rincon grade two 

 miles below Henshaw dam, and at Palomar hotel on the " Pdloraar, wTiere 



Normally 



oulUn 



bearing 



August 



out of flower. In less shrubby places the stems straggle over the ground 

 after the fashion of A. Douglasii, and the pods often are purple tmged 

 as in that species, but smaller and somewhat stiffer, that is less papery. 

 But it is evidently not far removed in relationship from that speaes, 

 being truly of the Inflati. It is good to know that the species is m no 



extermination 



It is rather amusing to see Jepson (Man. 573) makmg A. I'uroioDUS 

 variety of A. inflexus, and A. Panamintensis a vanety of A. atratus. 

 He evidently has never seen a specimen of A. Panamintensis. TTe also 

 makes A. Hmatus a variety of A. Treussii, which it is not. His A. 



