Contributions to Western Botany. 11 



sports, but there is as yet nothing to warrant this being classed 

 as such and therefore must needs be described. If it is a sport 

 it comes from A. racemosus. Collected on bottom lands at Aztec 

 New Mex. and communicated by Prof. Wooton. If A. Grayi is 

 a sport it comes from A. pectinatus, and A. hyalinus from A. 

 triphyllus, while A. Palhseri comes from A. decumbens. All 

 seem to be caused by insect agency or possibly by fungoid 

 growths. 



Astragalus Lagunensis n. sp. Resembling A. Francisqui- 

 tensis Jones Cont. vii 666 but pods triangular-cordate in cross 

 section, deeply sulcate dorsally, tip pungent j4 a line long; 

 leaflets 7 to 8 pairs, narrowly elliptical, 2 lines long and a line 

 wide, rounded at both ends, shortly petiolulate, canescent 

 throughout; leaves 1 to 2 inches long; nodes about an inch apart. 

 Lower California Brandegee. The material of this and A. 

 Francisquitensis is very meager and the limits of the species 

 can be only be guessed at. 



Astragalus reventus var. Canbyi. Proper stems very 

 short, from a compact wood}' root; peduncles about 12 inches 

 long, and half longer than the leaves; leaflets 10 or more pairs> 

 g lines long or less, ^ line wide, emarginate; pods few, race- 

 mose, near the end of the peduncle, erect, on very stout pedicels 

 2 lines long which nearly equal the subulate bracts, ovate, 6 lines 

 long, 4 lines wide, 3 lines thick, very fleshy and wrinkled, sutures 

 triangular in cross section externally, raised, dorsal barely thick- 

 ened within, pod truncate at base and with evident stipe when 

 dry, inflated, opens at tip along both sutures, probably is a little 

 sulcate dorsally at times, but nearly round, flattish ventrally, 

 glabrous, beak sharp and triangular; flowers not seen. The 

 pods split the calyx when ripe, and are straight. Yakima region 

 Wash. Brandegee No. 36, 1882. This differs from A. reventus 

 in the connate stipules and stipitate pod. The validity of these 

 characters is yet to be determined, but if they are not good there 

 will have to be a wholesale reduction of species in this group. 



Astragalus Coltoni Jones var. Moabensis. Leafy, leaves 

 never filiform, all jointed to the rachis, elliptical to linear; pods 

 obliquely elliptical, 9 lines long, 2^ lines wide, horizontal or re- 



