8 Contribution* to Western Botany. 



(var. curtus Sheldon Minn. Bot. Stud, ix 134.) Blanche Trask's 

 specimen from Catalina Is. Cal. has very short calyx teeth, 

 pubescence very short, stipe 4 lines long, leaflets lanceolate 

 to narrowly-oblong, pods oblong-oval, acute at base, 1 inch 

 long, little oblique, hoary stems and young parts, pubescence 

 tangled, upper side of leaflets glabrous. The var. brachypus 

 has distinct stipules and truncate base of pod. 



Astragalus frigidus (L. Fl. Suec, Ed. II No. 657.) Gray 

 Proc. Am. Acad, vi 219. This, as to all American forms seen 

 by the writer, agrees perfectly with the var. littoralis (Hook. 

 Fl. Bor. Am. i 141) Watson Index 193, which therefore should 

 be suppressed unless the real Linnean type differs irom the 

 specimens distributed from northern Europe. 



Astragalus Americanus (Hook.) {Phaca frigida L. var. 

 Americana Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i 140,) From all the specimens 

 in this country, and they are very many, this seems to be a well 

 marked species. 



Astragalus Pulsiferae Gray Proc. Am. Acad, x 69 has a 

 synonym in A. Suksdorfii Howell Erythea i in. 



Astragalus Bajaensis Sheldon Minn. Bot. Stud. Bull ix 

 169 is very near to A. Hornii var. minutiflorus Jones Cont. vii 

 677 and is not at all related to A. Fremonti where Sheldon 

 placed it. 



Astragalus scobinatulus Sheldon Minn. Bot, Stud. Bull ix 

 24 which is not different from A. Haydenianus Gray, as to its 

 types, has been greatly confused by Mr. Sheldon. The Kansas 

 specimen in the Natl. Herbarium referred to as a part of the 

 type is a white flowered form of A. bisulcatus, the Columbia 

 College specimen is A. racemosus, while the only remaining 

 specimens, the types of the writer's variety major of A. Hay- 

 denianus, do not seem to deserve varietal rank. See Cont. vii 646. 

 Mr. Sheldon has also named A. racemosus Pursh No. 16415 Mo. 

 Bot. Garden as scobinatulus and also many other specimens of 

 that species in the same herbarium. 



Astragalus Dalcce Greene Pitt, i 153 is only a synonym 

 for A, Hartwegi Benth. PI. Hartw. 10, or A. vaccarum Gray so 

 far as the flowering specimen can be determined. 



