﻿and having gathered very many specimens of all forms. I 

 am certain that this is identical specifically with A . erio- 

 carpus Watson, and must therefore take the name. Un- 

 fortunately Watson's type is an abnormal form of his 

 species, having grown in the shade, and therefore having 

 abnormally long peduncles, but having collected it abun- 

 dantly near his typical localities, and finding both long 

 and short peduncles, according to the exposure, I have 

 no hesitation in placing it here as a variety of A. New- 



Astragalus Newberryi Gray var. briocarpus (Wat- 

 son, Bot. King 5, 71). This includes A. candelarius and 

 var. exiguus Sheldon. 



269. Astragalus /aiiorarpus Sheldon is the same. 



Astragalus Seatoni n. sp. Near to Hartwegi, but 

 with slender stems. Collected by H. E. Seaton, on Mt. 

 Orizaba, Mexico, ro,ooo° alt., August 6, 1891. Also by 

 Bourgeau, at Cacubaya, near Mexico City, 1866. The 

 latter plant is stouter, strigose and with fewer leaflets; 

 pods papery; root thick. Seaton"s plants have very- 

 slender ascending or spreading stems; leaflets linear or 

 nearly so, 6-8" long, 10-12 pairs; peduncles long and 

 slender, 4-8' long; spikes linear, loose, 1-2' long; bracts 

 scarcely visible; calyx almost globular, the tube about 

 A'' long and teeth one-third as long, triangular and black- 

 hairy; flowers yellowish or white, sessile; banner round, 

 not over 1" long or less, sides reflexed, a little longer than 

 the narrow-oblong wings, which are arcuate, and about 

 one-fourth longer than the semicircular oblique keel; 

 pods oblong-oval, 2" long, 1" wide, and cross-section 

 nearly round, deeply sulcate and septum produced, but 

 pods not wholly 2-celled, apiculate, very short stipitate. 

 apparently jointed to the stipe; pods and flowers reflexed 



