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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—Y. 
By Epwarp L. Greenz. 
Astragalus supervacaneus. Perennial, very sparingly 
strigose-pubescent, the decumbent stems a foot long: leaflets 
10 to 14 pairs, oblong-linear: peduncles elongated and with 
the rather short and few-flowered racemes little surpassing 
the leaves: calyx with slender almost filiform teeth about 
equalling the tube: pod on an exserted rather slender stipe, 
coriaceous, transversely rugulose, of oblong-ovate outline, 
strongly obcompressed and incurved, ? inch long, the cross 
section almost «-shaped by the intrusion of both sutures. 
At middle elevations in the mountains of Fresno Co., 
Calif.; communicated by Mr. Frank Nutting. Species with 
aspect of A. lentiginosus, but pod very different. 
Astragalus demissus. Stems slender, tufted from a per- 
ennial root, nearly prostrate, a foot long; herbage almost 
cinereously strigulose-pubescent: stipules triangular, dis- 
tinct: leaflets about 9 pairs, linear-oblong, ? inch long: 
racemes short-peduncled, elongated, exceeding the leaves, 
many-flowered though not dense: calyx-teeth subulate from a 
broad base, very unequal, the upper shorter than the tube, 
the lower exceeding it: pod oblong, 4 lines long, appressed- 
pubescent, slender-stipitate, 1-celled, obcompressed, the ven- 
tral face slightly channeled on either side of the promi- 
nently raised suture. 
Valley of the Humboldt River near Palisade, eastern 
Nevada, July, 1893. Species as much like A. flexuosus as 
any other in point of habit and general appearance; but the 
peculiarities of the pod determine its affinities to be with A. 
bisulcatus. 
AMELANCHIER PALLIDA, Greene, var. arguta. Habit bushy 
and compact, the leaves pallid and coriaceous, as in the type 
of the species; but bark of mature stems very dark: twigs, 
foliage and winter buds cinereously tomentulose: leaves 
Eryruza. Vol. 1, No. 10 [8 November, 1893]. 
