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3. HOSACKIA 



1. Hosackia cuprea (Greene), comb. nov. 



Lotus cupreus Greene, Leaflets, vol. 1, p. 74. 1904. 



Type locality. Hockett's meadows, E. Tulare Co., Calif., at 8,600 

 feet." 



Range. Southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Canadian ? 



Specimens examined. Meadows at head of Belknap Creek, Tulare 

 County, 8,500 feet, H. M. and G. R. Hall 8367; Hockett's meadows, 

 Tulare County, 8,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 5588. 



4. ASTRAGALUS 



Leaflets prickly pointed, rigid and persistent; pods minute (^4 inch long) 



1. A. tegetarius 



Leaflets not prickly pointed; pods more than ^4 inch long (except in A. 



Austinae.) 

 Pods bladdery-inflated, thin and membranous. 



Pods 2-celled, ovate, more or less puberulent, sessile in the calyx. 



Stems 5-12 inches high; plants sparsely or densely hirsute 



2. A. lentiginosus 



Nearly acaulescent and densely canescent 3. A. platytropis 



Pods 1-celled, very obtuse and glabrous, stipitate 4. A. Whitney! 



Pods scarcely inflated, firm-walled. 



Pods plainly stipitate and %-l inch long 5. A. Bolanderi 



Pods sessile in and shorter than the calyx 6. A. Austinae 



1. Astragalus tegetarius Wats., Bot. King's Exped., p. 76. 1871. 



Type locality. "Peaks of the East Humboldt and Clover Moun- 

 tains, Nevada." 



Range. Southwest Montana and "Wyoming to Oregon, south to 

 Colorado, Nevada, and California. 



Zone. Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. Mt. Dana, 13,000 feet, Brewer 1736; same 

 locality, near the summit, Chesnut and Drew, July 17, 1889 ; summit 

 of Mt. Warren, Tuolumne County, Congdon, August 21, 1894. 



2. Astragalus lentiginosus Dougl., in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, 



p. 151. 1830. 

 Phaoa lentiginosa (Dougl.) Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 11, p. 368. 1906. 



Type locality. "Subalpine ranges of the Blue Mountains." 

 Range. Washington to California and Nevada, on the inner side 

 of the Cascade-Sierra axis. 



Zone. Canadian as to the Californian specimens. 



