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ulate, at least the most of them, acute at base and a little cuneate; 
nodes of stem shorter than the leaves, which are three to four 
inches long; naked part of peduncle as long as the leaf, erect; 
flowers racemose, few; fruiting pedicels one to one and one-half 
lines long; calyx hyaline, not much inflated, cylindrical, tube 
five lines long, teeth nearly the same and almost filiform except 
at short triangular base; blade of keel two lines long, purple 
tipped, very long clawed; wings a little longer than keel, and 
banner a line longer than wings; flowers not large and probably 
white; pods ascending, short-stalked and jointed at tip of stalk, 
as in A. Purshiz, the stalk being one-third to one-half a line 
long and stout, pods simply shaggy as in A. madacus, fleshy, 
finely wrinkled, usually bent into a half circle, three lines wide, 
one to one and one-half lines thick, much obcompressed till the 
sutures nearly meet, with a very broad, shallow sulcus above 
and below, point of pod sharp but ay flattened; seeds rather 
large, a line long; pods cartilagino 
Two forms which I refer to eae Utahensts T. & G. in the 
Herbarium of the California Academy are one from Candelaria, 
Nev., by Shockley, with flowers and peduncles of this species and 
the pubescence less woolly and stems not branched; and one by 
Brandegee from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, which is this species, 
but the pubescence is more that of 4. Purshiz. 
Astragalus leucolobus.* This is a specimen from Mr. Parish 
in my herbarium labeled ‘‘ Watson’’; ifit has been published I 
do not know it. The plant is many-stemmed from a somewhat 
woody root and stems short, one to two inches long and decum- 
bent; nodes shorter than the large, triangular, acute, hyaline, 
free stipules; peduncles four to five inches long, ascending, rather 
stout, three to five-flowered at the tip, and with flowers close 
together; bracts hyaline, broadly ovate to lanceolate, acutish, 
one to two lines long; pedicel almost none; flowers nearly hori- 
zontal, purple but lighter below; calyx cylindric, three lines 
long, one line wide, inclined to be narrow at apex, base 
oblique; teeth very short, triangular, one-half a line long, erect; 

It is probable that A. /eucolobus is a clerical error for A. /ectulus Watson 
Proc. Amer. Acad. 22, 472, as the description there given accords with the 
plant under consideration. 
