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lower leaves small, upper the largest, these are oval to obovate, 
obtuse; stems many, erect, leafy. 
I can see no character to surely separate this species from A. 
diphysus Gray, and it is not at all certain that it is distinct from 
A. Coulteri 
sien lentiginosus Douglas. A plant collected at 
Alcalde, Cal., 1890, by Mr. Brandegee would fall under the 
variety Priteont It is evidently perennial, one and one-half 
feet high, erect, whole plant tomentose-canescent, sparse above; 
calyx densely black-hairy, cylindric-campanulate, three lines 
long, a line wide, teeth one-third the tube; flowers ochroleucous, 
five lines long; peduncles a little surpassing the leaves, densely 
flowered; pods very shortly stipitate and jointed at tip of stipe, 
sparsely hairy; leaflets about ten pairs, obovate; no petiole above. 
Astragalus latus (A. diphysus Gray var. latus Jones, Zoe iii, 
287). Itis manifest that this is a distinct species as I have had 
a chance to study it this season from the beginning of its develop- 
ment to the end. It forms a loose mat on the ground, which 
is from one to two feet in diameter, the stems are short and the 
leaves long, the peduncles only half as long as the leaves and 
so the flowers are hid among the leaves, calyx thickened at base 
and the lower side the longer but straight, hyaline, white, 
sprinkled with minute black hairs, four lines long, one and one- 
half lines wide and a line thick, not bent nor uneven in width, 
cleft deeper above, teeth unequal, subulate, about a line long, 
inclined to spread; banner usually with sides not reflexed, ovate, 
four to six lines wide in the middle, bent abruptly at tip of calyx 
teeth at an angle of 45°, six lines longer than calyx, deeply 
notched at tip, thin and not thickened at base, light pink-purple, 
occasionally the outline of the banner is oblong, triangular or 
even fiddle shaped by the varying position of the sides; sulcus 
conical, and very small at its apex the tip of the keel; white 
spot obovate, cut up by radiating purple veins, reaches within 
one and one-half lines of the tip; wings narrowly oblong oblan- 
ceolate to broadly oblanceolate, rounded at apex which is often 
considerably enlarged, minutely notched on the lower side near 
the apex, one and one-half lines longer than the keel and purple 
at apex and lighter below, ascending 45°, concave to keel and 
