NEW SPECIES, MAINLY CALIFORNIAN. 33 
inch long, narrowly lanceolate, entire, sessile: spike strict, 
either open or congested: calyx-tube less than 2 lines long, 
segments 4 lines, their slender elongated tips twisted in the 
bud: petals linear-lanceolate, only 3 lines long, barely a line 
wide, entire or irregularly toothed: capsule linear-oblong, 
i-inch long, sessile, the apex abruptly pointed, hirsute, the 
alternate angles 2-costate. 
Hills along Walnut Creek, at the western base of Mt. 
Diablo, May, 1886. An odd species, simulating Clarkia in 
the character of its petals. In aspect it is so unlike G. pur- 
purea as to preclude the supposition of its being a deformed 
state of that species. 
ASTRAGALUS MIGUELENSIS. Perennial, a foot or two high, 
white with a dense tomentum: leaflets in 9—12 pairs, 5—9 
lines long, obovate or elliptieal, obtuse or retuse: stipules 
broad, acute, connate opposite the petiole: flowering spike an 
inch long, on a peduncle of three inches: tube of the calyx 2 
lines long, the broadly subulate teeth a line: corolla 6—7 
lines, eream colored: pod inflated, coriaceous, 1—14 inches 
long, more than half as broad, obcompressed, acuminate or 
abruptly aeute, usually purplish, more or less tomentose- 
pubescent, neither suture intruded. 
Near A. anemophilus of Cape San Quentin, but with larger 
flowers and legumes, the latter differing in form as well as in 
size. The plant of Lower California is evidently Phaca ves- 
tita, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 13; but it will retain the specific 
name anemophilus, there being an Old World Astragalus 
vestitus of Boissier. 
ASTRAGALUS LEUCOPSIS, Torr. & Gray, var. BRACHYPUS. 
Less than a foot high, nearly glabrous: pod rather shorter 
and broader than in the type, its stipe barely equalling the 
ealyx 
Island of San Miguel: quite common, particularly on the 
southern and eastern parts of the island. The typical form 
inhabits the corresponding districts of Santa Cruz. 
Issued March 1, 1887. 
