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Astragalus conjunctus Wat. var. Hoodianus (Howell) 

 {A.Hoodianus Howell Erythea i in.) This antedates the writer's 

 var. oxytropidoides Cont. vii 665 and should take the name. 

 There is still too little material in this group to make the names 

 of species anything more than tentative. 



Astragalus miser Dougl. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i 153 has a 

 synonym in A. microcystis Gray. Proc. Am. Acad, vi 220. 



Astragalus Guatamalensis Hemsley Biol. Cent. Am. 264, has 

 a synonym in A. Oaxacanus Rose Cont. Natl. Herb? 



Astragalus oophorus Watson Bot. King v 73 has a synonym 

 in A. artipcs Gray Proc. Am. Acad, xiii 370. 



Astragalus salmonis. n. sp. Many crowned perennial, with 

 woody root and casspitose, proper stems none or 1 to 2 inches 

 long, prostrate; whole plant sparsely puberulent; leaves 2 to 3 

 inches long, of 4 to 5 pairs of distant, elliptical, barely acute to 

 obtuse, flat leaflets, 3 lines or less long; petiole }$ the length of 

 the rachis of the leaf, slender; lower leaflets inclined to be small 

 and oval; flowering peduncles scapose, 3 to 4 inches long, slender, 

 ascending to erect, with 3 (rarely more), racemose, white flowers 

 which are 6 lines long and in fruit are spreading to horizontal; 

 pedicels slender, i}4 lines long, twice as long as the ovate, hya- 

 line bracts; calyx tube strigulose-hairy with short appressed 

 hairs, 2 lines long, campanulate-cylindric, straight, saccate at base 

 on the upper side but with the pedicel inserted in the middle, 

 teeth subulate and a line long; banner oblong-oval, equally 

 arched from base to apex with the tip standing at ninety degrees 

 to the base, sides reflexed almost to the middle, erect part of 

 banner almost 3 lines long; wings broadly oblanceolate, 1% lines 

 wide at the rounded end, and erect beyond the keel, a line longer 

 than keel and exposing its base, a line shorter than the banner; 

 keel straight, blade 2^ lines long, apex rounded, incurved to 

 130 degrees and obtuse, the end l 1 /^ lines wide, the very tip pur- 

 plish; young pod flattish, recurved by the arching of the ventral 

 suture and arched to %. circle, shortly acute at both ends, when 

 mature an inch long, 3 lines wide and 2 lines thick, coriaceous,, 

 wrinkled and mottled, cross section obcordate with ventral 

 suture raised and thick, sulcate dorsally and with suture intruded 



