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1 eaves nearly sessile, about 1 dm. long, narrow. Leaflets 10-14 pairs, 

 n'.iTowly elliptical, about 1-1.5 cm. long, obtuse. Stems weak and 

 short, decumbent, florlferous throughout, with slender internodes, about 

 a foot long. Stipules small. Pubescence rather scanty, appressed and 

 nearly straight. Santa Barbara and Catalina Island California. Nut- 

 tall, Lyon. The type species has rarely been collected. In it the stems 

 are stouter and appearing as if erect. Species confused with the next 

 by Gray and with A. Antiselli. Si;ecimens sent out as typical got by 

 Giay from Santa Paula are A. Antiselli. California botanists and the 

 vriter have also confused it with the next. 



70. Astragalus capillipes n. s]. Pods about 2.5 cm. long and 1 cm. 

 high, about 3 mm. wide, greatly laterally flattened, half-oval, the 

 ventral suture a little convex toward the tip, apiculate. Flowers 

 1.2 cm. long, white, not stubby, in spikes. Banner oblong, about 1 

 cm. long, but rather variable, rather abruptly erect remote from the 

 calyx, with sides reflexed above, about 4 mm. longer than wings. 

 Wings broadly linear, about 1 mm. longer than keel. Keel straight 

 and tip triangular and erect and rather narrow, obtuse. Calyx about 



2 mm. long and wide, very oblique at both ends, truncate at base, 

 teeth minute and deltoid one-third to one-fourth as long as tube. 

 Pedicels about as long as calyx and longer than the bracts. Pedr.n- 

 rles many, axillary, about 1 dm. long, with pods racemose and rachis 

 8 bout 5 cm. long. Stems erect, 2-3 ft. high, nearly simple. Stipules 

 small, triang liar and green. Leaves about 1 dm. long, about sessile, 

 with 15-20 pairs of narrowly elliptical leaflets about 1 cm. long, ob- 

 tuse or notched, nearly contiguous, very minutely pubescent with 

 short and fine appressed hairs. The type is materiiil fi'om Blanche 

 Trask Catalina Island, also material from the island from Brandegee. 

 r refer here also No. 1338 Orcutt from San Telmo Lower California, 

 with some doubt. The character of stubbiness in a flower for the 

 most part is a valid one as opposed to a narrow flower with long 

 banner, but falls down in A. procerus, and may fail in the separation 

 of Crotalariae from vestitus, and lencopsis from what has been called 

 leucophyllus, just as the characters of wooUiness and silkiness may 

 fail in the same groups, but must be maintained till clearly proven t'^ 

 Intergrade. Should this distinction fail this species will then be A. 

 trichopodus var. capillipes. 



71. Astragalus leucophyllus T. & G. Fl 1 336 (1838). Phaca len- 

 cophylla (T. & G.) Hooker & Amnt. not A. l-'ir-onhyllus Willd. (1S00> 

 which is a synonym of A. angusffolius Lam. (1783). A. asymmetricus 

 Sheldon, A. leucopsis var. asymmetricus (Sheldon) and var. leucophyl- 

 lus (T. & G.) Jones. Pods a little more than half-oval, the ventral 

 suture being a little convex in the middle, about 3 cm. long, on a 

 hoary scipe as long as p^od, tip pnd base deltoid or barely poinited, In- 

 clined to be a little obcompressed. pendent. Flowers 1 cm. long, 

 many, ascending. Banner nearly round to oval, about 5 mm. long, 

 gently arched from calyx ti)is to 45 degrees, with sides reflexed about 

 1 mm. wide in the middle, barely 1 mm. longer than wings. Wings half- 

 elliptical, veiny, obtuse, about 2 mm. wide, about as long as keel. 

 Keel about 4 mm. long and 2 mm. high, the base a little arched and 

 then rounded to erect and tin cut off nearly square, about 3 mm. high 

 at tip, not colored. Calyx tube oblong campanulate, about 5 mm. long 

 and 3 mm. high, not oblique below and barely so above, nearly equally 

 inserted on the thick pedicels at the fleshy base, cleft deeper above, 

 teeth subulate from a deltoid base, about half as long as tube. 

 Fruiting pedicels about 4 mm. long, as long as the lanceolate hyaline 

 bracts which are conspicuous. Peduncles about 1 dm. long and half as 

 long as fruiting rachis,. Leaves 6-8 cm. long, not narrow, nearly ses- 

 sile, rigid, with stout and channeled rachis. Leaflets thick, nearly 

 linear, about 2 cm. long, rounded, or acutish, nearly contiguous. 14-18 

 pairs. Stipules rather falcate triangular, 5-8 mm. lone, rieid. erect, 



