Contributions to Western Botany. 



Franciscanus Sheldon, though Mr. Sheldon has applied his 

 name to plants that are either A. Menziesii or true A. Crotalarise 

 (Benth.) Gray, since Mr. Sheldon has made the type of his 

 species the A. Crotalariae Gray P. A. A. vi 216, excl. Phaca 

 Crotalariae Benth. PI. Hartw. 307 which latter is the type of A. 

 Crotolarise fBenth.) Gray but not the plant which Gray has called 

 by this name. Phaca Crotalariae Benth. is either Astragalus 

 Menziesii Gray P. A. A. vi 217 [Phaca dcnsifolia Smith. Ree's 

 Cyc. No. 9, Phaca NitttalliiT. & G. Fl. 1 343) or very near to 

 it, and seems to be the var. virgatus Gray Bot. Cal. 1 149, 

 though the material is so scanty that it can hardly be made out. 

 There is little but the variable pubescence and stipules to sep- 

 arate Menziesii from Crotalariae var. virgatus Gray, while the 

 writer's own specimens from San Francisco collected during 

 1897 show all grades of stipules from free to connate. 



Astragalus Franciscanus Sheldon has long flowers, very 

 obtuse, membranous to chartaceous, large, strictly sessile pods, 

 many leaflets, and hyaline stipules. 



Astragalus oocarpus Gray P. A. A. vi 213, is the A. Crotalariae 

 or Crotalarioides Torr. Mex. Bound. 56 t. 17 and must be con- 

 fined to that easily distinguished plant. It must be limited to 

 those plants having coriaceo us, ir.flated, stipitate, acute, erect, 

 pods and small flowers. Much that Gray has referred to this 

 is A. Douglasii. Mr. Sheldon has also confused this species 

 with his Franciscanus having given that name to Cleve- 

 land's specimen from the Mo. Bot. Garden collection No. 16714 

 which is true oocarpus Gray. 



Astragalus leucopsis var. leucophvllus (H. & A. Bot. 

 Beechey 333) LI. Icucophyllus T. & G. Fl. i. 336). 



Astragalus Gibbsii var. falciformis (Gray) iA.speirocarpus 

 var. falciformis Gray Bot. Cal. i 152). 



Astragalus Bigelovii var. Thompsons (Wat.) {A. Thomp- 

 sons Wat. P. A. A. x. 345.) 



Astragalus lotiflorus var. brachypus Gray P. A. A. vi 209. 

 is not a good species. There are some variances in the pod 

 that would lead to keeping it up as a variety as well as in the 

 very short peduncle but it passes into the typical form at all 



