1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevad'a of California 257 



3. HOSACKIA 



1. Hosackia cuprea (Greene), comb. nov. 

 Lotus cupreus Greene, Leaflets, vol. 1, p. 74. 190-4. 



Type locality. — Hockett's meadows, E. Tulare Co., Calif., at 8,600 

 feet." 



Range. — Southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Canadian ? 



Specimens examined. — Meadows at head of Belknap Creek, Tulare 

 County, 8,500 feet, H. M. and G. R. Hall 8367; Hockett's meadows, 

 Tulare County, 8,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 5588. 



4. ASTRAGALUS 



Leaflets prickly pointed, rigid and persistent; pods minute (Y^ inch long) 



1. A. tegetarius 



Leaflets not prickly pointed; pods more than y^ inch long (except in A. 

 Austinae.) 

 Pods bladdery-inflated, thin and membranous. 



Pods 2-celled, ovate, more or less puberulent, sessile in the calyx. 



Stems 5-12 inches high; plants sparsely or densely hirsute 



2. A. lentiginosus 



Nearly acaulescent and densely canescent 3. A. platytropis 



Pods 1-celled, very obtuse and glabrous, stipitate 4. A. Whitneyi 



Pods scarcely inflated, firm-walled. 



Pods plainly stipitate and %-l inch long 5. A. Bolanderi 



Pods sessile in and shorter than the calyx 6. A. Austinae 



1. Astragalus tegetarius Wats., Bot. King's Exped., p. 76. 1871. 



Type locality. — "Peaks of the East Humboldt and Clover Moun- 

 tains, Nevada." 



Range. — Southwest Montana and Wj'oming to Oregon, south to 

 Colorado, Nevada, and California. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Mt. Dana, 13,000 feet. Brewer 1736; same 

 locality, near the summit, Chesnut and Drew, July 17, 1889 ; summit 

 of Mt. Warren, Tuolumne County, Congdon, August 21, 1894. 



2. Astragalus lentiginosus Dough, /;; Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, 



p. 151. 1830. 

 Phaca lenUginosa (Dougl.) Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 11, p. 368. 1906. 



Type locality. — "Subalpine ranges of the Blue Mountains." 

 Range. — Washington to California and Nevada, on the inner side 

 of the Cascade-Sierra axis. 



Zone. — Canadian as to tlie Californian specimens. 



