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Incurved tip, finely short-pubescent, minute- 

 ly reticulate-voined, unilocular, man> seeded. 

 Kear Indian wells & Carriso creek e Or." 



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free for nearly 3-4 tlieir length; keel & banner 

 barely^emarginate: pods an incli long resem- 

 bling A. Hursliii, but not mature 4 exact shape 

 therelore not determinable." Or j e mj 



A purshii ? coccineus Py \V 7 10 



A grandifloius Wat Am ac pr 18 370 non Pajl* 



ASTRAGALUS ALBATUS SheMon. 



"@ or perhaps biennial, whitened ihrough 

 out with a fine, dense pubescence; stems 9 20 ASTRAGALUS PYCNOSTACHYU3 G. 

 em high, erect, simple, thick, l-4frou) theyish A circumdntus 

 root, finely striate; leaves 4-6 cm in length, 

 the rachis striate; leaflets 8-15 mm in length, 

 in 4 or 5 pairs, oblong, obtus* ; stipules trian- 

 gular acuminate, free, erect; peduncles 3-5 cm 

 in length, terete, loosely 4-6fl'ed: fls 5 6 mm 

 in length, erect-spreading, becoming dcflexed 

 calyx broadly campanulat«, the abruptly 



ASTRAGALUS GAMBELL^ANUS Shel. 



A didy mocarpus da .5 &c non V-A 



ASTRAGALUS NUTTALLIANUS D C. 

 Genus OLXEYA A. Gray. 



OLNEYA TESOTA A. Gray. 



Iron wood, palo Inerro, una ue gato; a beau 

 tiful tree, characteristic of the desert regions 



pointed triangular teeth X-K the length of the wood Is of great density, rich, dark color 

 the tube; corolla whitish or ochroleucous; leg. takiug an extremely line polish, when dry an 

 ume 11-1'2 mm in length, membranacv us-infla- ax? makes slight impression. j e z 

 ted. ovate-oblong, acuminate pointed, the 

 ventral future straight, the dorsal curved 



Genus VICIA Tournefort. 



softly wbite-pubescent, unilocular, with nci' VICIA EXIGUA Nutt. 

 ther suture intrnflexed, 2-6 seeded. Or e.' ' l^^^^t ^il^Ji'S,'^''A ''" ^' 



ASTRAGALUS ORCUTTIANUS S. Wats. 

 "Stems numerous, slender, decumbent, 

 1° long, spar ngly strigose-pubescent: 

 leaflets 8-10 pairs, rounded, 1-3" broad: 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-3' 

 long in fr. ; raceme loose, few-fl.: calyx 

 campanulate, 2" long, the teeth mostly 

 equalling the tube: pod linear-falcate, as- 

 cending, coriaceous, attenuate to a stipe 

 shorter than the calyx, with a dorsal 

 groove and acute ventral suture, 2-celled 

 by the intrusion of the dorsal suture, 9" 

 long. Allied to A. Arizonicus, rather pe 



VlCiA LINEARIS Ge. 

 VICIA SATIVA L. 



VICIA rHGitilKcCI Watson An a^ pr 25 12) 

 "@, about P high, the yonng leaves, etc., 

 pubescent, becoming glabrous: leaflets 4-12 

 narrowly linear, acuie,:^-" lines long; stipules 

 small, sub ulaie-lanceolate or lintar, not at a 

 sagittatt', entire: ptdunclcs short (1-6" loi g 

 be iring I or rarely 2 small w or purplish fl 

 calyx nearly glabrous, the teeth rather sh.ir " 

 acuminate: pods glabrous, sessile, oblong, ob- 



culiar in habit, the small round leaflets liquely acute at each tnd, about 9" long by 2>-^ 



upon an elongated rhachis exceeding the 

 raceme. In Cantillas Canon ("Tantillas" 

 of Palmer), Lower CaUfornia, by C. R. 

 Orcutt, August, 1883."— S. Watso.i, Proc. 

 Am. Acad., xx. 361 (Feb. 21, 1SS5). 

 ASTRAGALUS COULTERI Benth. 

 ASTRAGALUS CROTALARIAE A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS DISPERMUS A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS LEUCOPSIS T. & G. 

 ASTRAGALUS CIRCU.V DATUS Ge 



-3 broad, 5-7 ovuled. From soul hern i tah * 

 Colo to z & n"— Watson. 

 VICIA HASSEI S. Watson. 



"Often tall: leaflets 3-6 pairs, linear to 

 narrowly oblcng, acute or obtuse and apic- 

 ulate, or more frequently truncate and 

 tmarginate or toothed at the apex; stipu- 

 les semi-sagittate with the rather broad 

 ASTRAGALUS GAMBELLIANUS Shsl- lower lobe usually 2-4-toothed: peduncles 



don. 



ASTRAGALUS ANTISELLI A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS TENER A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS OOOARPUS A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS PARISHII A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS SONORAE A. Gray. 

 ASTRAGALUS STENOPHYLLUS T.-G. 

 ASTRAGALUS TRICARINATUS A. Gry. 

 ASTRAGALUS VASEYI S. Watson. 

 ASTRAGLUS COCCIN?:US Parry. 



"f caespitos ^ densely white-hirsut? petioles 

 nearly as long as the leaves; leaflets, I2-15oval 

 to obovate, obtuse, 6-10 mm long; stipules tri- 

 angular-lanceolat : peduncl.-s consi lerably ACACIA GREGGII A. Gray, 

 surpassing the leaves; fls numerous shortly ACACIA FARNESIANA WiF.d. 

 pedicellate, clustered near the top; calyx cyl- Acacia Farnesiana Wllld.— Dr. Har- 

 indncalslender, the linear nearly equal tetth varri rla«!cp<? this; amone- thp mpdicinar 

 1^ the length of the tube: corolla sproadiny. ^^^^ cias&es this among the medicinal 

 bright red, .'55-40 mm long, double the length Plants of Texas, probably because "a 

 of the calyx; banner lanceolate: the oblong decoction of the pod contains tannin.' 

 keel equalling it in length, very shallow & lit- ^ ^.cc,,* ,. 



tie curved not hiding the stamens, which are Genus CASSsIA L,innaens. 



6-15" long, 1-fl. or sometimes remotely 

 2-fi.: pod more attenuate at each end and 

 short-stipitate, 5-9-ovuled. 9-16" long. 

 On open giassy hills about Los Angeles. 

 Ciilifornia, growing with V. exigua; Dr. 

 H. E. Hasse.Also collected at Santa Cruz 

 by Dr. C. L. Afiderson, at Benicia by Dr. 

 Bigelow (V. exigua var (?) Californica 

 Torr. in Pac. Railroad Rep. 4.76), and on 

 Guadelupe Island by Dr. Palmer." — S. 

 Watson. Proc. Am. Acad., xxv. 129-110 

 (Sept. 25, 1890). 



Genus ACACIA Wllld. 



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