NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 69 
close lepidote-stellate indument: obovate or somewhat spat- 
ulate basal leaves entire or few toothed, tapering to a pet- 
iole, the cauline oblanceolate, entire: racemes short and 
dense, hardly more than corymbose even in fruit: pods 
ovate, somewhat compressed, tipped with a style of half 
their own length; cells about 6-ovuled. 
Collected at-Gray, New Mexico, by Miss Josephine Ske- 
han, 1898. 
ARAGALLUS RICHARDSONII. Oxytropis splendens, var. Rich- 
ardsonii, Hook. F1.i.148. The Ozytropis splendens of Douglas 
was published in Hooker’s Flora as including two varieties, 
one of which he named vestita; and this is Douglas’ type of 
the species. It is distinguished readily as exhibiting an 
elongated spike which is very conspicuously bracted, the 
bracts considerably surpassing the flowers. It is less com- 
mon within the borders of the United States than is that 
whieh I here raise to specifie rank under the name of 
A. Richardsonii. The greater proportion of our Rocky 
Mountain and still more westerly so-called Oxytropis splen- 
dens belongs to the present species, whieh is characterized 
by much smaller flowers, forming an elongated and narrow 
spike, and this without the manifest bracts subtending the 
flowers. Bracts are indeed present, but, not equalling the 
calyx in length, are wholly inconspicuous. 
ARAGALLUS CAUDATUS. Size of A. splendens, and with 
4 to 6 leaflets in the whorl, these all elliptic-lanceolate and 
very acute but unequal, the largest an inch long, but others 
in the same whorl scarcely half as long: scapiform peduncles 
very hirsute, bearing a broad and short spike at the utmost 
only 2 inches long and of oblong outline; each flower sub- 
tended by very narrowly linear and strongly hirsute caudi- 
form bract of an inch in length: flowers rather large, appar- 
ently rose-red (fading lilac-purple): fruit not seen. 
Specimens collected at Moose Jaw, Assiniboia, 26 June, 
1896, by Mr. John Macoun (Canad. Surv. n. 13,957). The 
