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sessile. Above Dos Rios in the state of Mexico, Sept. 4 1904 by Ro.s« 

 and Painter, Nat. Herb. No. 451)372. 



151 Astragalus reptans Willd. Hort. Berol. 2 88 t. 88 (1816). 

 Pods oblong-oval, aliout 1.5 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, rounded and ab- 

 ruptly apiculate at tip, almost sessile and splitting the calyx, inclined 

 to be a little v/ider above, scarcely oblique, little if at all sulcate, a 

 little obcompressed, but cross-section nearly round, partly 2-celled. 

 Flowers in a short spike and closely ref lexed, , cream-colored at least 

 when dry, about 1.5 cm. long, rather many. Banner oblanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, about 1 cm. long, but little arched, 1 mm. longer than wings, with 

 sides reflexed about 1 midi. wide. Wings oblanceolate, obtuse, 2 mm, 

 wide, narrowed above, about 4. mm. longer than keel, straight. The 

 keel obtuse, about 2 mm. wide, 4 mm. long, not colored, with the erect 

 •tip >iraight. Calyx tube sliort-cylindric, about 5 dm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

 equally iittachci], with the lower corner cut off, very oblique below, 

 thin, iiigrcsv-mt ; teeth triangular from a deltoid base, over half as 

 long as tube, unequal, with narrow sinuses. Pedicels very short. The 

 bracts are papery as in A^. (iuatamalensis, ovate to lanceolate, barely 

 acute, 2-3 mm. long. Peduncles about a foot long, slender, from root- 

 ing nodes. Leaves 1-1.5 ft. long, slender, with petioles nearly as long 

 as the rachis. Leaflets smooth, narrowly elliptical, cuneate below, 

 about 2 cm. long, thin and flat, 12-14 pairs, contiguous, 3-7 mm. wide, 

 obtuse. Stipules large, connate-falcate, green. Stems 2-4 ft. long, 

 creeping and rooting at the nodes, many, with internodes 4-10 cm. 

 long. This grows on knolls in low meadows, valley of Mexico and 

 Sierra de Las Cruces. Middle Temperate life zone. 



