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emarginate leaflets, but otherwise the same. Type in 

 National Herbarium. 



To this species I refer with much doubt Palmer's spec- 

 imen from Lagoon Head, Lower California, March 6-15, 

 1889. Stems erect; petioles absent; leaves and the stiff 

 long peduncles ascending; whole plant nearly glabrous; 

 stipules minute, adnate, not connate; spikes 2-4' long; 

 peduncles floriferous on the upper third; flowers loosely 

 spicate- racemose, almost sessile, the pedicels being half 

 the short ovate bracts; calyx broadly campanulate, tube 

 l" long and wide, triangular teeth half as long; flowers 

 4" long, purple; keel large, blade 3" long, erect portion 

 as long as the horizontal part and bent to it at an angle of 

 90" ; banner ascending sharply to 45 and remote from 

 calyx lobes, sides reflexed; wings 3" long, lanceolate, 

 arched 30 , a trifle longer than the keel which is fully 1" 

 shorter than the banner; pods obliquely ovate -oblong, 

 9" long, 6" wide, sessile, rounded at ba'se, papery, sulcate 

 ventrally, shortly acute, circular in cross- section, nearly 

 smooth, ascending. Should this prove to be a new spe- 

 cies, as it is most likely to be, it may be called Astragalus 



evelos, Lower California, 1889, Brandegee; also at San 

 Fernando. Plants i-i^° high, rather bushy, branched 

 at base, perennial, whole plant glabrous; leaflets about 7 

 pairs, linear-lanceolate and very sharp, 6—8" long and 1" 

 wide, distant, all but the very uppermost petioled; ra- 

 cemes very lax, 4-5' long including the rachis, floriferous 

 on the upper two-thirds; flowers 6—10; pods half -oval, 

 shortly-flat-triangular beaked, 1-1^' long, round in cross- 

 section, deflexed; otherwise as in A. Doug-lasii. Type 

 in the California Academy Herbarium. 



A strata/as Uaxdaiianus Gray. From a large amount 



