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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—XIV. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
Astragalus Elmeri. Annual, slender, the ascending or 
slightly decumbent branches a foot long or less: herbage 
very minutely and sparsely strigose-puberulent: leaves 
scattered; leaflets in 4 to 6 pairs, narrowly cuneate-oblong, 
only about 4 inch long, emarginate: peduncles, including 
the slender spike-like raceme thrice exceeding the leaves: 
calyx very small, campanulate, black with a strigose pubes- 
cence, the teeth about equalling the tube: corolla nearly 4 
inch long, light violet; banner obcordate by a V-shaped 
notch; wings little shorter than the banner, their lower mar- 
gins meeting underneath the keel, the upper ones widely 
sundered; keel very short, blunt, abruptly incurved: pod 
triangular-ovate, 2 lines long, deflexed, strigulose with white 
hairs, not wrinkled. 
Apparently a local species in Ross Valley, Marin Co., 
California. Related to A. nigrescens, Nutt., but very dis- 
tinct in characters of the corolla; the main petals being 
many times larger than in the better known species, and the 
oblique position of the wings being very characteristic. 
When in flower only, the plant might pass for A. Breweri. 
I dedicate the species to Mr. Elmer Drew, who was one of 
the first to collect it. 
Psoralea monticola. Root perennial, enlarged, simple 
and fusiform, or parted into several coarse branches: stems 
numerous, a foot long more or less, rather slender, pros- 
trate with 1 or 2 long internodes below, the upper ones 
short, subcinereous with a short sparse closely appressed 
pubescence, the petioles and peduncles with also a stiffly 
hirsute spreading or retrorse pubescence: peduncles slender, 
2 inches long or more, subtended by a pair of lanceolate 
subulate tardily deciduous stipules; leaflets 5, about 4 to ? 
‘ inch long, cuneate obovate, rather obtuse, sparsely appressed- 
silky: peduncles longer than the oblong-ovoid raceme, the 
