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outer coat loose; flowers not seen. This would pass for 

 some form of A. Newberry 'i var. criocarpas, but for the 

 loose outer coat of the pod. It may be a reduced form 

 of A. cicada or even of A. Newberry i var. eriocarpus, 

 but the leaflets are of different shape, though in the latter 

 species they are often reduced to three. No. 5454a. 

 June 18, 1894, two miles south of Ferron, Utah, on clay 

 slopes, at about 6000 alt. 



Plants tufted, perennial, proper stems very short and 

 nodes not longer than the triangular, green, very strigose 

 stipules, which are 3" long, adnate, not connate; leaves 

 3-4' long, the petiole as long or longer than the rachis; 

 leaflets 5-7 pairs, acute at both ends, nearly oval but ap- 

 parently diamond-shaped, contiguous, 4-5" long, 3" wide ; 

 pubescence short, stiff, dense, appressed, fixed by the 

 middle or near it; peduncles shorter or barely longer than 

 the leaves, erect in flower and decumbent in fruit, capi- 

 tatelv few-flowered: flowers like amphioxys, purple, 1' 

 long: calyx nearly half the whole, tube 4" long, subulate 

 teeth 1" long, calyx tube cleft deeper above by a broad 

 sinus, finely pubescent; flowers and fruit ascending; pods 

 ovate to elliptical, acute, 1' long, 5-6" wide, rounded at 

 base, puberulent when young, outer coat separating, but 

 reticulations not evident. No. 56584. July 21, 1894, at 

 Cottrell's Ranch, Henry Mountains, Utah, 6000 alt., in 

 volcanic gravel. 



Astras>-a?ns Icutiginosits Dougl. G. Don, Gen. Syst. 

 Gard. and Bot. 2, 257, 1832; Hook, Fl. 1, 151. This is 

 the most annoying group of forms in the genus, com- 

 prising all perennial forms of the group with 2-celled pods. 

 The pods vary from membranous to cartilaginous and are 

 connected throughout, the flowers vary from white to 

 purple, and the shape of the pods from lanceolate to 



