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Astragalus Oreganus Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i 335 has a synonym 

 in A. ventorum Gray Am. Nat. viii 212. 



ASTRAGULUS ABORIGINUM var. GLABRIUSCULUS (Hook) PhaCll 



glabriuscula Hook Fl. Bor. Am. i 144) has a synonyn in A. 

 Forwoodi Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxv 133. Watson described 

 it as an annual while his lype is clearly perennial. 



Astragalus Labradoricus DC. Prod, ii 287 which is a sub- 

 stitute name for A. secundus Mx. Fl. i 66 is A. Blakei 

 Eggleston Bot. Gaz June, 1895, p. 271 also A.Robbinsii Oakes var. 

 Jesufii Egg. & Sheldon Minn. Bot. Stud. Bull, ix 155. Micheli, 

 the original collector, considered it only a form of A. alpinus and 

 Gray and Watson followed him in this opinion, and it certainly 

 is as near that species as it is to A. Robbinsii. A specimen of 

 Micheli's is in the Gray Herbarium and though young can be 

 identified as the species of Eggleston with reasonable certainty. 

 It is in the writer's judgment a good species differing in the 

 shape of the flowers and mode of growth from A. alpinus. 



Astragalus argophyllus Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i 131 is not the 

 same as A. glareosus Dougl. Hook Fl. Bor. Am. i 152 with 

 which Gray confused it. Believing it distinct from glareosus 

 and supposing Gray's reference of A. argophyllus was correct 

 the writer made a synonym in A. Uiutcnsis Jones Cont. vii. 670 

 because he was unable to see the type of argophyllus before 

 publication. There is but one good specimen of A. glareosus ex- 

 tant (outside of his own herbarium) so far as the writer knows and 

 that is in the Natl. Herbarium. The others are mere fragments 

 in the Gray aud Phil. Acad, herbaria. All the specimens re- 

 ferred to A. glareosus in the Gray, Columbia, and National her- 

 baria except this are A. argophyllus. A. glareosus has yet to be 

 separated from inflexus Dougl. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i 151. 



Astragalus argophyllus Nutt. var. Panguincensls. {A. 

 Chamceleuce var. Panguicensis Jones Cont. vii 671.) 



Astragalus Reverchoni Gray. Proc. Am. cad. xix 74 is a 

 dubious species. It looks like a peduncled form of A. lotiflorus 

 Nutt. 



Astragalus Shortianus Gray var. cyaneus (Gray) {A. cya. 

 ncus Gray Proc. Phil. Acad. 1863 60) it is not the true A. Short- 



