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bracts lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, 

 nearly equalling the villous ex: ex-teeth 

 very villous, broad at base, acuminate, 

 as long as the turbinate tube; pet dark 

 p, 3" long." S. Watson, Am ac pr 

 22:470. Near Quintin! Sierra Madre 

 (Seemann). 

 DALEA SPINOSA A. Gray. 



"A shrub, much branched and very 

 spinose, 4-15 hi; hoary with a minute 

 appressed pubescence: Ivs scattered, 

 cuneate-oblong or nearly linear, obtuse, 

 nearly sessile, 4-8" long: ex % as long, 

 marked by a row of conspicuous glands, 

 the broadly ovate obtusish teeth much 

 shorter than the tube: ovules 6: pod 

 twice longer than ex, 1-seeded." Brew- 

 er & Watson, bot Cal 1:143. 



Gray, PI Thurber 315. 



Torrey, Pac Ry R 7:9 t 3. 



Arizona; CD; Calamujuet, Baja (Br). 



Asagraea spinosa Baillon, Adansonia 

 9:232. 

 ASTRAGALUS ANTISELLI Gray. 



Sts slender, erect, 3-5 dm hi, ciner- 

 eous-pubescent, Ifts 21-29, linear-oblong, 

 crowded, 4-8 mm long, glabrous above, 

 pubescent beneath, raceme loosely few 

 fld: fls sm, g'ish-w; ex-teeth half the 

 length of the campanulate tube; pod 

 thin, linear-oblong, compressed, gla- 

 brous, 1-celled, 15 mm long, 4 mm wide, 

 tapering to a strip of about y 2 its 

 length. 



Abrams, Fl LA 223. On grassy hill- 

 sides in our interior valleys. Ap. 

 ASTRAGALUS LEUCOPSIS T. & G. 



Rattle-weed. Sts erect, 3-5 dm hi, 

 Hooker, Fl 1:151. 

 Variety FBEMONTII Watson. 



"More hoary-pubescent, with looser- 

 Astragalus diaphanus Douglas, in 

 fld spikes, usually on a longer peduncle: 

 st flexuous." Brewer & Watson, bot 

 Cal 1:147. SBer deserts (Parish 1278). 



"The ordinary form well developed." 

 Variety FLORIBUNDUS Gray. 

 Brewer & Watson, bot Cal 1:147. 

 ASTRAGALUS BRAUNTONII Parish. 



Sts lignescent at base, 1-1.5 m long, 

 erect or reclining; herbage canescent 

 throughout with a short soft pubes- 

 cence; Ifts 15-20 pairs, oblong, 2-5 cm 

 long; fls and fr reflexed in compact 

 many-fld spikes: ex-teeth slender, equal- 

 ing tube: cor light p: pod sessile coriac- 

 eous, oblong, 1 cm long, 2-celled by the 

 nearly complete infolding of the dorsal 

 suture to near the apex; sds 2-3. 



Abrams, Fl LA 223. Monica mts 

 (Hasse, Braunton). 

 ASTRAGALUS LENTIGINOSUS Doug. 



"A span to 1 or so hi, the tufted sts 

 soon diffusely spreading, from slightly 

 to hoary-pubescent: Ifts 11-19, from 

 obovate or obcordate to oblong, *4-%' 

 long: peduncle short: fls and fr mostly 

 crowded in the oblong spike or raceme: 

 cor either w or p, nearly %' long: pod 

 turgid-ovate and pointed, more or less 

 incurved, usually puberulent, occasion- 

 ally purplish-mottled, seldom 1' and 

 sometimes only %' long. Wash; SBer 

 mts (Parish 1496). 



Brewer & Watson, bot Cal 1:147. 



Astragalus ineptus A. Gray, Am ac pr 



312 



Type locality: European. 



Davidson, Erythea 1:58, LA Co. 



Parsons, W Fls Cal 332 t. 



Abrams, Fl LA 210. 



San Miguel Island. Alfalfa. Cult. 

 CD! 

 DALEA ARBORESCENS Torrey. 



" 'A sm tree,' much branched, some- 

 what spinose, the younger branches, Ivs 

 and ex densely hoary tomentose: Ifts 

 1-3 pairs, obovate, approximate, 2 or 3" 

 long: fls in short nearly sessile rather 

 close spikes, p, 4 or 5" long: ex large, 

 but shorter than the cor, the broader 

 oblong or narrowly lanceolate teeth 

 nearly equalling the tube." Brewer & 

 Watson, bot Cal 1:142. San Fernando 

 mts (Fremont). 



Gray, PI Thurber 316. 

 DALEA CALIFORNICA B. Watson. 



Shrubby, canescent with a fine ap- 

 pressed pubescence, sparingly glandu- 

 lar; the glands upon the peduncles 

 sometimes prominent and prickle-like: 



, 



the ovate acute teeth shorter than the 

 tube." Brewer & Watson, bot Cal 1:142. 



Watson, Am ac pr 11:132. 



Parish, Zoe 5:113, CD, not Cajon Pass. 



C D, near Banning (Parry). 

 DALEA EMORYI A. Gray. 



"Shrubby, much branched, 2-5 hi, 

 hoary tomentose throughout with a very 

 fine pubescence: Ifts 1-3 pairs, narrowly 

 oblong to obovate, 2-4" long, the terminal 

 1ft much longer: spikes very short, pe- 

 dunculate: fls 2 or 3" long, p: ex-teeth 

 as long as the tube, a little shorter than 

 the cor: ova pubescent." Brewer & 

 Watson, bot Cal 1:142. 



CJD; Baja; Arizona. 

 DALEA PARRYI Torr. & Gray. 



"Herbaceous, very slender, puberu- 

 lent or glabrate: Ifts 6-10 pairs, obovate 

 to oblong, 1-2" long, obtuse: fls 4" long, 

 bright p, in loose elongated long-pedunc- 

 led spikes: ex not % the length of cor, 

 canescent with short silky hairs; its 

 teeth broadly ovate, acute, about equal- 

 ling the tube: pod smooth." Brewer & 

 Watson, bot Cal 1:142. 



Ft. Mojave (Cooper); CD; Arizona; So 

 Baja, 

 DALEA SCHOTTII Torr. 



"Shrubby, slender, nearly glabrous, 

 somewhat spinose, the branches nearly 

 glandless: Ivs scattered, narrowly lin- 

 ear,, 1' long: fls few, on short slender 

 pedicels in an open raceme, sometimes 

 solitary, p 4" long: ex % as long, ob- 

 scurely glandular; the teeth very short, 

 acutish: ova pubescent, 2-ovuled: pod 4" 

 long, with a single large sd." Brewer 

 & Watson, bot Cal 1:143. 



Torrey, bot Mex B 53. 



C D; Cajcm de Santa Maria, Baja (Br). 

 DALEA SEEMANNI S. Watson. 



"Near D. Greggii, shrubby, erect, dif- 

 fusely much branched, the glandular- 

 dotted branchlets finely tomentose: Ifts 

 2-4 pairs, canescent with a very short 

 subsilky pubescence, on a rhachis 1-6" 

 long, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, distinctly 

 shortly pedunculate, dense, %-2' long- 

 glandular beneath. 1-2%" long: racemes 



