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decumbent, stout, 2-3 ft. long. Whole plant almost smooth, but calyx 

 nigrescent. This plant varies but little, but is too close to A. Menziesii. 

 Common in the valleys from Los Angeles and Pasadena to San Ber- 

 nardino and Temecula. 



57. Astragalus Crotalariae (Benth.) Gray Proc. Am. Acad 6 216 

 (1864). Phaca Crotalariae Benth. PI. Hartvi'. 307 (1848). Tragacan- 

 that Kuntze. Pods oval, 2 cm. long and 1..5 cm. wide, about round 

 In cross section, a little oblique, shortly pointed and apiculate, rather 

 rigid. Flowers purple, about 2 cm. long. Banner elliptical, about 

 1.5 cm. long, arched gently to nearly erect a little beyond calyx tips, 

 with sides reflexed below, about 4 mm. longer than wings. Wings 

 linear, arched to 45 degrees, 2-3 mm. longer than keel. Keel half ellipti 

 cal, the tip nearly erect. Calyx tube shortly campanulate, about 4 

 mm. long and shortpedicelpd, pubescent teeth triangular and half as 

 long. Peduncles about 1 dm. long, heads 2-7 cm. long, loosely 6-12 

 flowered. Leaves about as in the var. Menziesii but larger and con- 

 spicuously pubescent only when young. Monterey California, Coulter. 

 An obscure species. 



58. Astragalus Miguelensis Greene Pitt. 1 33. (1887). Pods when 

 mature about smooth, oval-ovate, about 2 cm. long, and 1.5 cm. wide, 

 the trinngular tip about 4 mm. long and arcuate, sulcate at both sut- 

 ures. stiff-T^apejv, n spending in dense heads and very shortly pediceled. 

 Flowers about 1.5 cm. long, light colored. Banner oval, about 1 cm. 

 long, arch'^d abruptly at calyx tip to fully erect, thin. Wings linear, 

 straight, about 1.5 mm. wide, about 3 mm. longer than keel and as 

 much shorter than banner. Keel half-elliptical, about 5 mm. long, the 

 tip ascending and acutish. Calyx tube about 5 mm. long and 4 mm 

 high, short-camiianulate. oblique at both ends, the teeth with deltoid 

 base and nearly as long as the sparsely woolly tube. Leaflets 9-12 

 pairs, cuneate-oblong-obovate, rounded to notched, densely white- 

 woolly. Leaves about 1 dm. long, mostly short-petioled. Peduncles 

 5 cm. to 1 dm. long, floral rachis short. Stems decumbent, branched. 

 Stipules connate. This has much the habit of A. vestitus but the pods 

 and flowers are canitate. and flowers not stubby and seemingly purple 

 or purplish. Islands of Santa Rosa and San Miguel, California. 



59. Astragalus Magdalenae Greene Pitt. 1 162 (1888). A. candidis- 

 simus (Benth.) Watson. Phaca candidissima Benth. Pods minutely 

 'pubescent, 2-3 cm. long, oval the tip rather oblique or a little arched. 

 Flowers purple-tipped. 1-1.5 cm. long. In a dense spike about 5 cm. 

 long, almost sessile. Minute bracts twice the pedicels. Banner ovate, 

 nrge, about 1 cm. lone, arched at calyx tips to erect, 4 mm. longer 

 than wings or less. Wings broadly lanceolate, little arched, about 2 

 mm. longer than keel. Keel about 5 mm. long, arched from base to 

 to tip in about one-third circle, nearly half-oval, about 4 mm. high. 

 Calyx black-hairy, campanulate, the tube cleft deeper above. Teeth 

 triangular and about half as long as tube. Peduncles one and a half 

 times as long as leaves. Leaves 7-12 cm. long. Leaflets 8-15 pairs, 

 obovate-cunepte to oblnnceolate, not over 1.2 cm. lon.g, rounded to 

 notched, barelv petiolulate. appressed-silvpry-silky as is the whole 

 nlant exi^'^nt the merely puberulent pnds. Stipules very small and not 

 '">n'iate Maerlalena T>ay Lower California, etc. It appears quite 

 distinct but the species is very variable. 



60. Astragalus oocarpus Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 6 213 (1864). 

 T'his is founded on the figure of Torrev in Mex. Bound t. 17 and named 

 (^rotalarioides there and called Crntalarife in the text p. 56 but not 

 desfribed. Pods rathe- thin-corinrooMs about 2 cm. long. 1.5 cm. wide 

 nnd 1 cm. b's-b. oblif^ueH- ovate, with flat upturned deltoid tin about 3 

 mm. lone, sliehtly sul<"^te vpntrally not at all dorsally and with dorsal 

 suture raised pxternailv as thick ridcre. smooth, only faintly reticulated, 

 erect, several to many and racemose on a stout peduncle shorter than 



