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long, ij4 lines wide, r line high, deeply sulcate dorsally, tri- 

 quetrous, pendent on stipe a line long and tapering shortly into 

 it, 2-celled, obliquely apiculate with a declined mucro a line 

 long. When the flowers are highly colored then the banner is 

 deep-purple, white spot evident, cut up by heavy purple lines 

 which run within % a line of the tip, wings are very prominent 

 and white and often with a pink spot at base. 



Astragalus Feensis. Dry, gravelly hills, Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico, May 28, 1847, Fendler No. 151. See Plantae Fendler- 

 ianae. No. 16966 of the Engelmann collection. Perennial, 

 densely tufted, stems almost none; stipules adnate, not connate, 

 2 lines long; whole plant except the pods densely appressed- 

 strigose pubescent; leaves many, the petioles fully as long as the 

 slender rachis, leaves 2 inches long; leaflets 7 to 8 pairs, oval, 

 2 to 3 lines long, folded, rounded to emarginate, shortly petiol- 

 ulate; old leaf petioles persistent; pe'duncles slender, 3 inches 

 long, capitately few flowered; pedicels very short; bracts minute; 

 calyx tube cylindrical, 2 lines long, with short triangular teeth, 

 not densely pubescent; pods sessile, linear-lanceolate, taper 

 pointed, 9. lines long, 1^2 lines wide and high, cross section 

 triangular- cordate, ventral suture raised and thick, dorsal sulcate 

 slightly and intruded fully to the ventral as a white partition, 

 pods coriaceous, somewhat fleshy when ripe, minutely puberu 

 lent, arcuate. Probably allied to A. Parryi but pubescence, 

 leaves, and pods very different, pubescence short and closely ap- 

 pressed. No flowers. 



Astragalus Arthuri. Lake Waha, Nez Perce Co., Idaho, 

 2-3500 ft. May 19, 1896. A. A. and E. Gertrude Heller. Dedi- 

 cated to Mr. Heller Mr. Heller says, "It grows on basalt hill- 

 sides on the plateau below Lake Waha. The locality is rather 

 stony, and is destitute of any ligneous vegetation. It is a strik- 

 ing plant on account of the abundance of flowers, which have 

 the appearance of drooping. I first saw it in full bloom on the 

 3rd of June." Perennial from a stout, erect root, many, rather 

 slender stems from the crown, ascending, plants i).- z ft. high; 

 proper stems of few nodes, a few close together at the base, then 

 2 or 3 which are 1 to 3 inches apart, coarsely sulcate as well as 



