﻿ad soft, rarely the pods are obcompressed when 



round, or even in pods which are much compressed lateral- 

 ly, they being greatly obcompressed when much arcuate ; 

 banner brilliant pink purple or darker, oval-ovate, sides re- 

 flexed I }&" wide at a point opposite the keel tip and narrow- 

 ing to nothing both ways ; sulcus in the banner nearly cylin- 

 drical, i 1 /," wide, and forming about % of a circle, i" 

 deep and very broad and large, gradually shallowing up- 

 wards to the apex of the banner which is deeply notched; 

 the white spot being %" above the keel and goes far be- 

 low it, filling the sulcus and is M-shaped, purple -veined 

 below and inclined to be stippled above, it reaches within 

 2" of the tip of the banner; wings linear, 1" wide, as- 

 cending, a little obtuse, tips horizontal and connivent 

 over the keel, purple throughout, 1" longer than the 

 keel; keel straight, bent sharply to 90 and acutish, 

 purple; calyx tube 3" long and about 1%" wide, j4" 

 thick. The stems are spreading or prostrate, 2-1 2' long, 

 and are often much tufted, growing in sandy or gravelly 

 places from 4200° to 4600 altitude, near rocks on grav- 

 elly slopes, and occasionally hanging in festoons from 

 crevices of the rocks. When growing this can only be 

 separated from A. amphioxys by the pubescence and by 

 the rather diamond -shaped leaflets, though in the dried 

 plants the pod is very different. 



Astragalus arietinus. 



No. 55540. June 30, 1894, Fairview, Utah, in gravel, 

 6500 alt. 



No. 5208a. May 11, 1894, Cedar City, Utah, in 

 gravel, 6000 alt. 



This is the plant referred to by Watson in King's Re- 

 port, p. 71, as a form of his A. iodanthus. but is reason- 



