ASTRAGALUS. LEGUMINOS &. 149 
A. Utahensis T. & G. Pac. R. Rep. ii, 120. Canescent with a long and 
dense soft-woolly appressed pubescence: subcaulescent, the short stems 2-6 
inches long, prostrate: leaflets 11-17, suborbicular, 2-4 lines in diameter: 
flowers violet; pods oblong, obcompressed, densely woolly, moderately in- 
curved, slightly sulcate. nion Co. Oregon to Salt Lake Utah. 
A. allanaris Sheld.1l. c. 141. Pubescent throughout with white loose 
hairs: cespitose, nearly acaulesceut or with very short erect, simple hidden 
stems, from the crown of a stout perennial root: leaves 2-5 inches long, 
erect, pubescent with sparse spreading hairs, the rachis slightly channelled, 
but nearly terete ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, usually closely 
imbricated ; leaflets 7-11, 4-6 lines long, elliptical to lanceolate, acute, 
pubescent both sides; peduncles 1-2 inches long, 2-flowered; flowers nar- 
row, each subtended by a black-bordered bract; calyx tubular-cylindrical, 
oblique at base; spreading-pubescent, striate, the lanceolate teeth nigre- 
scent-margined, much shorter than the tube: corolla purpzish, tinged with 
green: pods 6-7 lines- long, ovate-arcuate, acute or shortly acuminate 
pointed, incurved, coriacevus, sessile, white-pubescent, 1-celled the dorsal 
suture slightly impressed, few-seeded, Eastern Washington. 
§$ 10. Inruatit Gray |. c. 218. Pod membranaceous, inflated, 
globose, egg-shaped or semi-ovate, usually large, finely reticulated, 
glabrous or glabrate, neither suture inflexed or rarely the ventral 
only and slightly. 7 
* Perennial; pod not mottled. Caulescent, rather tall, leafy: ra- 
cemes or spikes usually many-flowered. 
A. Suksdorfii Howell Eryth. i, 111. Cinereously pubescent through- 
out: stems many from a stout perennial root, slender, ascending, 8-12 
inches long: stipyles foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, about a line long: 
leaflets 9-11 cuneate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, 3-4 lines long: peduncles 
very slender, shorter than the leaves; flowers in compact clusters white 
or yellowish, on slender pedicels; bracts lanceolate, about half as long as 
the pedicels; calyx campanulate, its subulate teeth about equalling the 
tube; upper petal far exceeding the lateral ones and twice the length of 
the keel, entire: pods of firm texture, sessile, obliquely ovate, acuminate, 
6 lines long or less, finely appressed-pubescent. In loose voleanic soil near. 
the base of Mount Adams, Washington. (Suksdorf). 
A. diurnus Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxi, 450. Minutely appressed- 
pubescent throughout: stems numerous from a thick perennial root spar- 
ingly branched below or simple, 4-10 inches high, slender, ascending or 
erect: leaves about 2 inches long; leaflets 7-11, obovate, obtuse or retuse, 
glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1-3 lines long: peduncles shorter than 
the leaves, slender, few-flowered; bracts about equalling the pedicels, 
subulate: flowers spreading or reflexed, pale yellow or lined with purple, 
3 lines long; calyx turbinate-campanulate, the slender teeth as long as the 
tube: pods inflated. membranaceous, séssile, obliquely oblong-ovate to ob- 
long, the ventral edge nearly straight, or somewhat incurved, somewhat 
compressed, finely-pubescent, 6-10 lines long. On gravelly bars of the 
John Day river at Dayville, eastern. Oregon. 
* * Root perennial; pod mottled, short-stipitate, the stipe equal- 
ling the calyx: flowers few, rather small, light-colored, keel with the 
inflexed apex somewhat produced. 
A. Hookerianus Gray 1. c. 215. Canescently pubescent: stems 
much branched from the base, ascending, 5-6 inches high, from a per- 
ennial root: stipules lanceolate, membranaceous; leaflets 15-19, oblong or 
linear-oblong, slightly petiolulate, rather rigid: peduncles scarcely as long 
as the leaves; bracts setaceous, about as long as the very short pedicels; 
calyx pubescent with whitish and black hairs intermixed, its subulate 
