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oamed Astrags^FrMcisqttiteMis N. Sfh Later ke sent rac material from 

 Ac LagiK» mottntains, Lower Califoraia, which I named A. tagunensit 

 N. Sp. The material WM sufficiently di^erent t» warrant its being placed 

 Ma variety of the other. Now as to synonymy. Sheldon in Minn. Bet. 

 Stud. 9 66 names it. A; apertus Sheldon and puts it among the Uliginosl. 

 Then on page 172" he givea-it anothier name, Tepicus, and puts it in tfw 

 WTiat-is-it*. AH thia waa done because Turcz. created the name ervoide« 

 in 1»38 for A. minfatus, Sheldon adhering t<^ the stupid slogan, "Onc» a 

 ^onym, always^ a syononym." If the name enroidea i^ to be abandoned 

 then A. apertus Sheldon must stand. AH Sheldon knew about the specie* 

 waa what fa in Fot. Beechjr 4t7.. Wiea I came to name Brandegee'i 

 plants A. ervoides. was in the discapd asa species, impossible to identify. 

 But since then I have been over the ground and collected the species. And 

 the stnkmg smularity of my species with Lav*s is apparent. Lay's spe- 

 cies IS described as fbilimat "f Astragalus (Sect. Ciceroidcae) ervoides; 

 puberulus caule gracifi elongato-ranwo, foliolis 15-17, remotis, lineari- 

 oblongis, obtus*3, stipuKs- hnceolatfa, par\'U3, pedunculis axillaribus folio 

 longioribus racemosis, racemis 10-12 fioris, Calyce brevi-omato oblique 

 obtuse 5-dentato dentxbus brevibus subaequalibus (pediceUisque) nigris, 

 corolla (flava)caly€effl subduplo, superante, leguminibus linearibus defleii* 

 ffurvatis acutis glabris." 



; Hab. San Bias to Tepic. Our portions of this plant measures less 



K »V^' *K"**fv*^ ^^ branched and straggling, herbaceous. Leaflets 

 «bout half an inch long. Flowers of the same lentgh, soon reflexed. The 

 short cup-shaped calyx, wfth its obKquely 5-tooAed mouth, has a few 

 dark-colored short ha.rs scattered over the surface, vet so as scarcely to 

 ^.ect the green color; but the short teeth and the pedfcel* are quite black." 

 ... Astragalus ervoides Bth. Probably winter annuals, with central 



crown into filiform and procumbenc ^ms 



from 



umanus wfiicft art I-J feet long, amt siinple or sparingly branched above, 

 and ^p with rong intemodes, whole plant even to the black-hairy calyx 



:^^K ^' cP^T'*^"'^"^^' ^*^^' *^^ "PP«^ «<J« of the leaves, which is 

 rjT' V ^^"^ consprcuous, linear-subulate; adnate, not cdnnate. reddish 

 ind hyaline, not over 1 cm. long, the floral bracts similar but shorter. 

 ^aves linear, with about » pairs of broadly oblanceolate to elh>tix:al. 



vuncctte ajid retuse to fruneate leaflets, about y, cm. long. The leaves 

 ^ith sliort petioles or the upper sessile, widely spreading. Flowers racr- 

 Sn^;^%' T ?^ ^""^ "P'"^^ peduncles, mostly surpa.^sing the 



ht^t/fllV^'^^ «>ne. Flowers about 5 mm. long, ^with white. 



^^t.rf'^lrt i?*' "u™^\ Calyx tube dtort-cylihdric buT a: little con- 



if 5^ fk^^'i?*'' *^V^ ""• ^"^^ and twice as long as the. linear. 



.r:aneuTar teeth. The petals have been described vv^en fresh above. Pods 



acummate, nearly straight, sessile, spreading, smooth. VFan 



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^l?^Sr n ^"''S !f' ^'°^ *^"^ ^ °"- ^«^« ^y 2 rimL;wide: deeply ^h 

 ^Xe .|m>ally. J-cellrd. withsharp and raiseS' ventral suture! ^Pbds^ucS 

 ^|...h,pe of. iL. parvus. Th« correspKub" closely with-'Aiy .4.^ laeunen- 

 »», ana I doubt that Francis^ itensis is sufficientlv different to be worth 



