﻿CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. 66l 



Astragalus Bernardinus. Morotfyp King Mine, east 

 side of San Bernardino Mountains, California, 5000° alt., 

 June 16, 1894, Parish. Type in National Herbarium. 



This is closely allied to A. tricarinatus Gray, having 

 the same rushlike round, rather tortuous stems, very similar 

 pods, and peculiar pubescence of short, flat, closely ap- 

 pressed hairs fixed by the base, but it differs in being 

 only 6' high ; stems flexuous and ascending; nodes 1' apart 

 or less; stipules triangular, green, adnate, free, evident; 

 leaves 2-3' long, with rachis like stems but smaller, green, 

 tapering upward, arcuate, leaflets only ashy and equally 

 so on both sides, flat, thickish, about 4 pairs, smaller to- 

 ward tip oi rachis, with very weak petiolules, distant, 

 narrowly oblong, 6" long by 1%" wide, obtuse but not 

 emarginate, equally rounded at both ends; peduncles 

 proper only 1' or less long, with rachis 3-4' longer and 

 racemosely flowered; flowers 6-10, reflexed; pods linear 

 and narrowing below, apiculate, 1' long, i}£" wide at the 

 end, %" wide at base, smooth, triquetrous, the back being 

 a little narrower than the two sides and shallow sulcate, 

 the sides a little concave, ventral angle acute, the others 

 obtuse, completely 2-celled, cross-section Y-shaped, very 

 finely netted, jointed at base, on a stipe nearly as long as 

 calyx tube; calyx tube campanulate, 1 " long; teeth half 

 as long, triangular; flowers not seen. Perennial, with 

 many stems from a thick erect root. 



Astragalus reventoides. Tweedy, No. 7, dry sage- 

 brush areas, Grasshopper Creek, Beaver Head County, 

 Montana, 5000 alt., August, 1888. This would pass for 

 a broad leaved form of A. reventus were not the pod 

 2-celled or nearly so. Perennial, erect, stems short, 6' 

 long or less; leaves silvery on both sides with short fine 

 appressed hairs fixed near the middle, 6' long or less, 

 stiff, rachis stout, equaling the petiole; leaflets oval to 



