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with the habit of A. Geyeri, pubescent; leaflets long-petiolulate, 

 narrowly oblong, not thin, obtuse to emarginate, 5 to 7 

 pairs; petioles always evident; inflorescence about as long as 

 the leaves; young pods minutely pubescent, pods oval, 1 to 

 i}£ inches long, equally acute at both ends, only the young 

 ones somewhat oblique; flowers purple, striate; peduncles 

 axillary nearly throughout, rather stout, reflexed mostly, 

 1 to 1^2 inches long, with several pods on the upper 

 two-thirds. This is the annual form hitherto referred to 

 A. triflorus. It is found on the plains of western Texas, New 

 Mex. and Ariz. The types are the specimens of the writer's 

 collection of 1884 from El Paso, from New Mex. and Ariz, and 

 all specimens referred to in Cont. vii 637 under A. triflorus. 



There is much confusion in this group yet, and some changes 

 may need to be made. 



Astragalus Geyeri Gray var. triquetrus (Gray) (^4. tri- 

 guetrus Gray Proc. Am. Acad, xiii 367.) This is intermediate 

 or nearly so between A. Geyeri and A. sabulonum. It is placed 

 by Sheldon among the thick walled argophylli and scytocarpi! 



Astragalus fastidius (Kell.) (Phaca fastidia Kell. Hesper- 

 ian iv 145, i860. A. fastidiosus Greene Bull. Cal. Acad, i 186.) 

 I see no occasion for the name of Greene. It is just as good 

 Latin for Dr. Kellogg to coin the adjective fastidia from fastidium 

 nausea, as it is to make any other combination in Latin, and it 

 accords with the spirit of classical Latin, while the name of 

 Greene is a derivative of the same noun with a different mean- 

 ing, being intensive, from that intended by Kellogg. This 

 species is the A. curtipes of most writers as to nearly all the 

 specimens referred to A. curtipes, but it is not the true A. 

 curtipes of Gray Proc. Am. Acad, vi 217 of which there seem to be 

 only two specimens extant^ the type in the Gray Herbarium, and 

 a specimen in the Herbarium of the University of California, from 

 San Luis Obispo, Cal. The type has stipules conspicuously con- 

 nate and hyaline even to the tip, while A. fastidius has the stipules 

 not connate or indistinctly so at the base. Whether this distinction 

 is of specific value is yet to be determined. A. fastidius is, the 

 writer thinks, the A. kucopsis var. brachypUS Greene Pitt, i 33 



