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seed-bearing, sessile, rounded at base, early splitting the calyx, 
cross section apparently broadly obovate, tip with a very 
pronounced flat and sharp, triangular beak, two lines long; dorsal 
suture very convex, ventral slightly so; seed stalk one-half a 
line long. Flowers and pods horizontal or nearly so. The spike 
of flowers reminds one of those of Oxytropis deflexa. 
Astragalus inversus,n. sp. Allied to A. cc io edi and colli- 
nus. Susanville, California, July 1, 1892, Brandegee. Glabrous 
throughout. Stems flexuose two fen long, seosgline upward, 
small, gle simple, faintly angled, floriferous above the 
middle, nodes two to three inches apart; stipules, lower ones, 
rather small os united at base, the rest green and tapering toa 
long point and reflexed, four lines long, distinct; peduncles ten 
inches long, as stout as the stems, at least twice as long as the 
almost filiform petiole and leaflets; leaflets an inch long, distant, 
about three pairs, all jointed to the petiole; flowers loosely 
racemose on the upper half of the peduncle, six to ten, distant 
in fruit, ochroleucous; keel very gently arched at tip and blunt, 
natrow, rather long-clawed, six lines long, nearly equaling the 
narrow obtuse wings and small banner, the latter ascending only; 
calyx teeth very short-triangular, one-quarter the length of the 
campanulate tube which is one and one-half lines long and 
narrowed at base, not oblique, apparently equally toothed, dark 
_ and finely pubescent; pedicels a line or less long; bracts minute, 
ovate; flowers ascending, in fruit reflexed but not pendulous; 
pod long acuminate at each end, compressed, one and one-half 
inches long, two lines wide, linear, cross section elliptical or 
narrower, one-celled, sutures not prominent nor at all impressed, 
dorsal suture concave and ventral convex and so the pod seem- 
ing wrong side up; stipe not jointed, nearly an inch long about 
half as long as the pod; seeds nearly round, many. The pod is 
purple and streaked with white, cartilaginous. 
Astragalus collinus Dougl. var. Californicus Gray. ‘To this I 
refer with some hesitation a plant collected at Ager, Siskiyou 
County, California, July, 1887, by Brandegee. Glabrous, cartilag- 
inous, reticulated pods two inches long, two lines wide, and stipe 
three-quarters of an inch long, cross section oval, seeds a line 
