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tip and 3 mm. shorter than the banner. Calyx from campa/mlate and 

 4 mm. long and wide to 9 mm. long and cylindrical, the teeth subu- 

 late and as long as tube to only a third as long. Peduncles subter- 

 minal. Middle leaves 1-1.3 dm. long and with 2-3 pairs of narrowly 

 elliptical to linear-lanceolate leaflets which are 2-3 cm. long, and 2-7 

 mm. wide. Lowest leaves 2.5-5 cm. long, with 3 pairs of oval leaflets 

 about 1 cm. long. Ujjpermost leaves with nearly linear leaflets and 

 all with a white niucro, the uppermost very sharp, all petiolulate. 

 Petioles, peduncles and stems sulcate, barely tapering. Lower stipules 

 hyaline, very wide, 2-5 mm. high, distinct, the upper one striangular, 

 reflexed, 2 mm. long. Internodes about 5-10 cm. long. Stems weakly 

 erect, about 2 ft. high, tufted. Growing where alkali seeps out on 

 slopes in Big Indian Canon west of Hawthorne Nevada. 



108. Astragalus pachypus Greene Bull. Cal. Acad. 1 3 157 (18S5). 

 Pods 2.5-4 cm. long, 7 mm. high, 2 mm. wide, smooth, much wrinkled 

 when dry, but round and even when fresh, narrowly oblong, with 

 sutures very thick and raised (faint at the short, triangular and 

 sharp tip) and uniting at the base into a solid obconic and thick stipe 

 about 1 cm. long, the tip of pod erect.[ Seeds short-stalked, flat round 

 2 mm. wide. Banner about 1.5 cm. long. Wings about 3 mm. wide, 

 arched to 45 degrees and a trifle longer than keel. Keel about 5 

 mm. long and 4 mm. wide and with the erect and triangular and 

 acaiJsh t'p 7 mm. high and purplish. Calyx tube reflexed to horizon- 

 tal, about 3-5 mm. long, hyaline, nigrescent. Bracts small, broadly 

 ovate, hyaline, 2 mm. long. Pedicels ascending, about 5 mm. long, 

 stout, longer than the bracts. Peduncles stout, scarcely sulcate, 1.5-3 

 dm. long, longer than the leaves, few-flowered on the upper fourth of 

 their length. Leaves slender. Proper petioles 1-5 cm. long and with 

 the rachis deeply sulcate along the upper side. Leaflets 8-11 pairs, 

 linear, folded, ashy. Stipules connate below, triangular, small. Stems 

 rather stout, rigid, flexuous, with the upper part and young leaves 

 minutely white-pubescent. This grows in loose and rather alkaline 

 soil on slopes at Bealville California, also at Mt. Pinos Venture Co. 

 and by Parish at Cajon Pass. 



