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curved, but calyx spreading only. Collected at Moab by Miss 

 Eastwood and by mysell at Green River, Utah. 



Astragalus recurvus Greene Bull. California Acad, i No. 3 

 155, is a good species but near to A. Rusbyi Greene. The note 

 in Contributions No. vii referring it to A. lancearius should have 

 been suppressed. The material of this species is very scanty 

 and fragmentary there being one good specimen in the writer's 

 herbarium (referred to in Cont. vii) and some flowers in the 

 Brandegee Herbarium, as well as the poor specimen constituting 

 the type. 



Astragalus Inxoensis Sheldon Death Valley Rep. 86 can 

 hardly be separated from A. albens Greene. 



Astragalus Phcenicis (.4. intermedins Jones Cont. vii 556.) 

 The name intermedius is preoccupied. 



Astragalus Eurekensis, A., glareosus Jones (not Dougl ) 

 Cont. iii 291, not A. cibarius Sheldon. This is a well marked 

 species which the writer had very doubtfully referred to A. gla- 

 reosus Dougl. The description is misleading as the pod is not 

 really 2-celled, the dorsal suture is only sulcate and not intruded, 

 but the sulcus is so deep as to make the pod seem 2-celled. 



Astragalus cibarius Sheldon Bull. Minn. Bot. Stud, ix 149. 

 Having seen all his types of this species it proves to be based 

 on A. diphysus Gray and A. arietinus Jones and therefore must 

 supersede the writer's name, as a part of his types and most 

 of his description belong with arietinus. 



Astragalus firuniformis Jones Cont. vii 660 is too near A. 

 Hendersoni Watson, the only difference being the less numerous 

 leaflets. The name should then be suppressed. 



Astragalus Chamaeleuce Gray Bot. Ives Rep. 10 in part 

 There seems to have been no need of Dr. Gray's name, as Astrag- 

 alus pygmaeus DC. and Astragalus pygmasus Pall, were both 

 synonyms; the one being A. nanus and the other Oxytropis 

 nigrescens. The name however has been out of use so long that 

 it need not be revived. 



Astragalus Cham^leuce var. cicada (A. cieada: Tones 

 Cont. iv 35.) Having collected A. Chamaeleuce in the type 



