VoL. Iv.] Contributions to Western Botany. 267 
though at the time I deferred to his opinion. The plants were 
collected at Milford, Utah, June 23, 1880, at 5000 feet altitude, 
in alkaline meadows, being just in flower. Perennial from a 
deep, large, fleshy, erect root which is often divided at the apex 
into many dense crowns, the crowns are covered with many stiff 
dead leaf petioles and with some rosulate new leaves which are 
two to three inches long with margined petioles a little shorter 
than the narrowly elliptical blade which is entire, fleshy, barely 
acute at apex and cuneate narrowed at base; stems erect or the 
outer ones ascending, twelve inches or less long, simple, purplish 
at base, glabrous throughout even to the pods except a ve 
minute pubescence on the upper stem which is denser on the 
pedicels and sparse on the sepals and long; stem leaves one to 
two inches long, fleshy, entire, barely acute, broadly linear, a 
little contracted at base but hardly petioled, not at all clasping 
nor auricled, one-half longer than the internodes, many, scarcely 
shorter above; spikes short, one to two inches long, sessile or 
nearly so in fruit, a mere head in flower; pedicels rather stout, 
short in flower, in fruit ascending but tips usually horiacated, 
three lines long, round, but with a ridge on either side and so 
seeming flattened, a little thickened at apex; sepals green, oval, 
very concave, rounded and hyaline at apex, three-quarter line 
long, often sparsely long-hairy; petals obovate one and one-half 
lines long, white; stamens apparently two with large oval 
anthers half as long as the stout filament, just equaling the short 
stout style; pods two lines long and a line wide, seeming acute 
at each end but minutely notched at apex, flat, not winged, 
elliptical, not corrugated, the two nerves very prominent and 
raised into a very narrow wing in the middle of the pod, of the 
same width as the style and seeming to be a prolongation of it; 
style one-third line long and much longer than the minute 
notch; pods erect and so at right angles . a apex of the 
pedicel. Distributed as No. 1821 of my Uta 
Astragalus pephragmenus, 0. sp. eats to ce . glareosus; 
referred to A. Shortianus, var. minor Gray. Perennial, matted 
from a much branched woody root, stems one to four inches long, 
spreading on the ground; stipules large and scarious, triangular, 
very slightly connate below, adnate to the petiole; whole plant 
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