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SHELDON'S PRELIMINARY LIST. 



This list which never should have been printed was published 

 to get the credit for many new names made necessary by the 

 Brittonian Code which he followed, and withont the exhaustive study 

 that a revision would entail. There was no original work worth 

 mention in it. here and there divisions indicated by Watson were 

 created, and here and there changes made, which I will mention. 



The anomalous species, oxytropidoid, he calls Section I Spies- 

 ioides and puts A. acutirostris and nothoxys in it, while they belong 

 to separate sections. 



Homalobus still contains A. collinus and porrectus which belong 

 in the Collini, A. miser which belongs in the Inflati of Gray, A. 

 debilis (Bodini) which belongs in the Debiles and close to the Alpini 

 which Gray would have placed in Phaca probably. 



A. speirocarpus is still kept in the Podo-sclerocarpi. 



A. griseopubens (campestris) is put in a new section "Famelicus", 

 a botanical hodge-podge, instead of in the Homalobi where it 

 belongs, A. scalaris is put here while it belongs with the Inflati. 

 A. debilis is put here while it belongs with the Debiles. A. sabulosus, 

 limatus, praelongus (Pattersoni) are put here while they belong with 

 the Preussii. A. reventus is put here while it belongs in the Reventi- 

 arrecti. It also contains A. flexuosus, Hallii. gracilentus, etc. It 

 contains A. aridus which belongs with the Inflati. A. Sonorae 

 (humistratus) is here but belongs with the Homalobi. A. pych- 

 nostachyus is here but belongs in the Inflati. A. troglodytus is here 

 but I would have placed it in the Ocreati. A. Virgineus (sabulonum) 

 is here but belongs in the Inflati. A. castanaeformis is here but 

 belongs in the Argophylli, so also tephrodes, Newberryi and Cham- 

 aeleuce. A. Eastwoodae (Preussii) is bere but belongs in the Preussii. 



He renames the Lonchocarpi as Clavocarpus. 



He puts A. desperatus in the Inflati, but it is better in the Argo- 

 phylli. He puts A. ampullarius here, b U it belons;s in the Preussii. 

 He puts A. oocarpus here but it belongs in the Inflati. 



He makes a new section Araneocarpus and puts A. neglectus 

 in it instead of in the Uliginosi where it belongs. He puts A. Texanus 

 (giganteus) here when it belongs in the Mollissimi 



He makes another new section Lanocarpus to hold the Purshii 

 group which belongs in the Argophylli. All the above he puts in 

 the general Series Phaca. 



His Euastragalus, corresponding to Astragalus proper of Gray 

 he divides up variously. His first section being Sericophyllus con- 

 taining another hodge-podge of species. A. glareosus, pephragmenus, 

 Parryi, amphioxys, Shortianus, Missouriensis, cibarius belongs' in 

 the Argophylli. A. triquetrus belongs in the Inflati as does also 

 A. pubentissimus, Mokiacensis, etc.. A. Casei belongs in the 

 Podo-sclerocarpi. A. Reverchoni belongs iH the Lotiflori. A. Gilensis 

 belongs in the Homalobi. A. Beckwithii belongs in the Preussii. 



He renames Watson's Pterocarpi as Scuticarpl. 



He still keeps A. villosus in the Lotiflori. 



He still more befuddles the Oroboidei. He puts A. glaber anl 

 distortus (Englemanni) here, when they belong elsewhere. A. palans 

 is put here when it belongs in the Inflati. A. obcordatus is put here 

 but belongs in the Sparsiflori. A. Sileranus is put here but belongs 

 in the Flexuosi. A. Lindheimeri is put here but belongs in the Lept- 

 ocarpi. He puts A. lentiformis and Lemmoni here when they belona: 

 in the Micranthi. He puts A. Breweri here when it belongs in the 

 Didymocarpi. He puts A. Ibapensis here when It belongs in the 

 Atrati. He puts A. Dodgeanus here when it belongs in the Homalobi. 



