Contributions to Western Botany. 387 
Astragalus serotinus Gray has been carefully studied in the 
field by the writer this season, with the result that he now re- 
gards it as not a form of A. decumbens. (See page 58). 
A. curtiflorus (Rydb.) page 64 should have been printed as 
A. minor var. curtiflorus (Rydb.) 
A, Pasqualensis n.sp. “Santiago Pasqualo, Durango, Mex. 
Palmer, No. 398, April to May, 1896. Perennial from a rather 
shrubby base. Ascending stems slender and flexuous, angled, 
branched, about a foot high, with short internodes 4-1’ long; 
leaves about 2’ long and proper petiole about 4’ long; leaflets 3-4 
pairs, rather distant, alternate, 1’ long, loug-petiolulate, barely 
acute at the Davee tip, linear-oblanceolate, 2” wide, about 3” 
apart, the pairs 4’ apart, white-pubescent with very closely ap- 
pressed hairs fixed by the middle; stems less pubescent than the 
leaves, but plant pubescent throughout except the petals; stipules 
very small, adnate, not connate; proper peduncles about 1’ long 
and with a well developed rachis 2’ long; flowers purple appar- 
ently, ascending, reflexed in fruit, short-spicate, nearly sessile, 
about 4” long; triangular-subulate bracts about 1” long; calyx 
tube short-campanulate, 17’ long, teeth subulate and as Jong as 
tube; banner broad and short, about as long as the wings and 
keel; wings probably broad and enlarged; keel large, acute, the 
tip ascending about 45°; pods linear, very acute, straight, 2-celled, 
_ about 1’ long and J” wide; fruiting pedicels stout, 1” long. This 
is evidently a close congener to A. Arizonicus. 
A. pectinatus var. platyphyllus. (See fig.) Pods very thick 
and with yery prominent and raised sutures when dry; leaflets 
broad. Collected by Prof. A. Nelson in Wyoming. 
A. agrestis var. bracteatus ppueeene® A. Hypoglottis var. 
bracteatus Osterhout Bull. Torr. Club 26 2 
A. Nevinii var. Traskse (Eastwood). A. Traskee Eastwood 
Proce. Cal. Acad. 3 102 fig. 
Webberi var. cibarius (Sheldon). A. cibarius Sheldon 
Bull. hans Bot. Stud. 9 149. > 
