﻿bent at each end; ventral suture a little concave and 

 thin, a trifle intruded, not at all sulcate ; dorsal thicker, 

 both sutures raised externally, dorsal suture intruded at 

 least half way into the pod, except at the tip, where it is 

 not at all intruded; walls cartilaginous, wrinkled both 

 ways externally, pod sessile, but a trifle narrowed at the 

 insertion; pedicels stout, 2" long, ascending, and pods 

 erect on pedicel. Very close to A . midus Watson and 

 A. fachypus Greene, differing from the former in the 

 nearly 2-celled and smaller pod, from the latter in the 

 short, sessile, round pod and few leaflets. Fish Lake 

 valley, Nevada. Shockley, July 20, 1886. 



Astragalus i 



•runiformis. This belongs to the A. 



fachypus group, 



Stems slender, ascending from a de- 

 -Ij4° high, very coarsely sulcate, nodes 

 ves 3-4' long; leaflets 6" long, oblong, 



with fine, loosely appressed hairs, fixed by an enlarged 

 base; peduncle stout, 6' long, floriferous on the upper 

 third; stipules subulate, green, 1" long, reflexed in fruit; 

 calyx campanulate, tube about 1%" long, teeth subulate, 

 and as long; pedicels stout, %" long, equaling the tri- 

 angular-subulate bracts ; stipe slender, 3" long, ascending ? 

 pod in the fleshy state probably round in cross-section, 

 and almost exact oval, 4" long by 3" wide, with much ex- 

 ternal pulp, when dry pods are lenticular in cross-section, 

 parallel (transversely) ridged and reticulated, ventral 

 suture %" thick throughout, dorsal also raised but 

 thin, pod strongly apiculate, the point being a little above 

 the middle of the end, 2-celled to the very apex, with the 

 septum double and the parts separate; flowers not seen. 

 Butte County, Oregon, July, 1893, Mrs. Austin. Type 

 in the National Herbarium. 



