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with racemose and scattered inforescence often a foot long, ercet. This 

 IS Clearly a close relative of A. junceus though the pods and flowers are 

 decidedly different. It grows in sandy places along the Pahria and in 

 House Rock valley north of Lee's Ferry Arizona and southward along 

 me Little Colorado at least 50 miles. Captain Bishop, for whom it is 

 named also got it probably on the western side of the Kaibab south 

 Kauab. 



12. Astragalus lancearius Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 13 370 (1878). 

 Mature pods rather shiny but minutely pubescent, light-colored, 2-2.5 

 cm. long, 5-7 mm. high, flat, ascending when young, horizontal to re- 

 Hexed when ripe, almost sessile, with apiculate to triangulat ends, 

 oblique but nearly straight, abruptly rounded at base, splitting calyx, 

 linely cross-nerved, with dorsal suture straight or rarely a little con- 

 cave, but with a convex hump near the 'tip mostly, tip in line with 

 dorsal suture. Ventral suture very convex especially toward the base. 

 Fruiting pedicels reflexed, 2-4 mm. long. Fruiting racemes long and 

 loose. Flowers in loose racemes, white, with at least the keel and often 

 the wings and banner purple-tipped, narrow, about 1-1.5 cm. long, 

 straight. Immature pods nearly linear, mostly arcuate and not much 

 flattened. Peduncles a foot or two long, sulcate, stout, strict, the rachis 

 nearly as long. Banner ovate, arched abruptly at calyx tips to 45 to 

 80 degrees, waterlined, with sides reflexed about 3 mm. wide below 

 and not at all at tip, 2-3 mm. longer 'than keel, rather remote from it 

 and exposing it. Groove in banner 4 mm. wide at tip, and 1 and one 

 half mm. wide and deep below. White spot with 8 broad white lines 

 and narrow purple veins, round. Wings 6 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, 

 arched, rounded at tip, conniven't at tip, concave to keel and 2-3 mm. 

 longer than it, oblong-oblanceolate. oblique Keel a little convex 

 below and sharply rounded to the erect tip above, obtuse, half-triang i- 

 lar-cuneate, reddish-purple, 3 mm. high, straight. Calyx tube cylin- 

 drical nearly but flattened a little laterally, nearly straight, 3-4 mm. 

 long, thin, narrowed below and attached on the lower corner, ashy, 

 cleft much deeper above, and oblique a't tip, with nearly filiform teeth 

 lax. Floral pedicels often shorter than the bracts. Bracts stiff, 

 triangular, 2-4 mm. long. Proper stems rarely a foot long, flexuous, 

 few, branched below, from a woody root, erect, green. Stipules green, 

 I gid 3-8 mm. long, reflexed, adnate. Upper leaves reduced to the 

 filiform rfichis, 3-5 cm. long. Central leaves 7-9 cm. long, with 1-2 pairs 

 of folded or nearly filiform leaflets which are rigid, obtuse, ashy, 

 hardly opposite, 1-2 cm. long, jointed to rachis. Lower leaves shorter 

 and often with 1-2 pairs of linear flat leaflets. The plants have the 

 habit of A. junceus, but stems rather more numerous, and root much 

 branched and woody. This abounds on depressions and cracks in 

 the sloping rocks of the San Rafael Swell foot. It blooms early in 

 May and fruits two weeks later. The type locality is the Beaverdam 

 Mts. west of St. George on the edge of Utah. It is more slender than 

 A. Episcopus but tufted in the same way 



13. Astragalus Woodruff! n. sp. Pods broadly linear, about 2 cm. 

 long and 4 mm. high, flat, ashy, cartilaginous, erect and apprr3.5ed, 

 s' ssile, arcuate, not splitting the calyx, the triangular beak with a 

 Subulate tip and in line with the ventral suture, the base rounded. 

 Sut.ires prominent and equally arched, the ventral concave. Flowers 

 brilliant-pink-purple, 1-1.5 cm. long, straight, narrow, erect, rather 

 densely spicate. Barner narrowly ovate, ascending 45 degrees in a 

 gentle arc from end of tube, water-lined, pirjile throughout and with- 

 out white spot, rounded to a trifle refuse, with sides reflexed 3 mm. 

 wide below and not at all above. Groove a half circle at keel 

 tip and shallowing to a line above and occupying one third the blade. 

 Wings broadly linear, nrched 30 degrees, oboit 2 m"\ \vU\p, rounded, 

 cblique at tip, white beyond keel and a little concave, flaring some 



