ai9 



and the lower 4 mm. wide, almost straight, the lower side rarely a lit- 

 tle concave! narrowed ami cleft deeper above at the end, but teeth e- 

 (]ual. rather truncate and eciually inserted on the very short and stout 

 pedicels, red, thinly shaggy with fine and spreading tangled hairs, as- 

 cending in flower and fruit. Bracts 3-4 mm. lon;^, triangular, white- 

 shiiggy so as to be concealed by the hairs. Peduncles Z-Z mm. thick, 

 coa' scly sulcale. somewhat curved in fruit. Leaves with the white- 

 slKi^gy petiou- a'- long as rachi.>, the petiole.- and peduncles persist- 

 iri;4 -iMig and closely imbricated below, with i!ie rather sina'! stipules 

 ciiui-ciKmI by the shaggy pubescence. Leaflets 3-5 pairs, ha'diy 1 cm. 

 lung, about cMJiitical, but a little narrower belov. , acutish at !»oth ends 

 and uitli the piilie-rcnce short-shaggy and so;i 

 crown.- le .V and oiten 5 cm. wide, longer tha 

 dense mat Z-A dm. wide combined with the mriny 

 er fleshy, erect and long. From the Panamirji: 

 do desert south of the Salton Sink, blooming in April. The stems do 

 not seem to elongate at all, being reprcsentcil hy the thick crowns. 



'..hat appre-sed. The 



wide and forming a 



leaves. Roots rath- 



.Mts. to the Colora- 



Coiit. 12 li ( 



178 Astragalus funereus Jone: 

 ly inflated, about 5 cm. long, 1.5 cm 

 from nearly h.ilf-oval to lunate, hoo 

 a little concave and the subulate li,' 

 3-4 time> a> long as wide, norniil'.* ' 

 and shallow-sulcate at least ventiaii 

 and with walls having scarcely any flesh and ;i 

 <lry and with canity much largei" than the : ec' 

 Flowers fcv, piiik-iiur])le-tipi)cd. bec''):ning I: 

 naturally acid ) w lien diy, abom _' cm. bmg, wiili 



iiltic 



d at t! 



ith 



1008). Pods decided- 

 liy- to ovate-oblong, 

 id, the ventral suture 

 bout 45 degrees and 

 iicompressed at base 

 , -section nearly round 

 re chartaceous when 

 Is and without pulp, 

 hiish (and therefore 

 the claws not e.vser- 

 ted and about a- long <\> the caJNx or a iiltic \\\o\-^. Banner oval-ovate 

 and about 1.5 cm. ionj^ and \.Z cm wide, wit!: side.s reflcxed 5 mm. 

 wide in the middle to 45 degrees and arcuate in gentle arc to 45 de- 

 grees from calyx tip. Groove deeply V-shaped, fully 2 mm. deep and 

 less than 1 mm. wide, abruptly widening 7 mm. below tip of banner, 

 most of it deep-purple and veined with white on the edges, the white 

 spot being present as a narrow band. Wings concave to keel, 3 mm. 

 wide at l)a^e to the middle and then contracted to 2 mm. wide 4 mm. 

 from tiji, very blunt and rounded, a little declined, quite as long as keel. 

 Keel that of A. coccineus but about 1 cm. long and 3 mm. wide and 

 with tip 4 mm. high and a little arched and with the end nearly in 

 line with the upper sifle and obtuse and rounded barely apiculate. the 

 gcner.'il outline being luilf-oblanceolate. The general character of the 

 flowers is that of .A. coccineus but shorter. Calyx tube about 7 mm. 

 long and 3 mm. high and nearly as wirle, a little contracted at both 

 ends, nearly eipially in-erted, the upper side arched a little, not cleft 

 deeper above. nit;re^'<Mil -^hagg_\' with rather long and sprearling and 

 very fine hairs, ilraci- deltoid, hardly 3 mm. long, very hairy and in- 

 clined to be nigrescent. Peduncles very stout, about 3 mm. thick and 

 5-7 cm. lony, arcuate, with 5-10 flowers, and with fruiting rachis 1-5 

 cm. long. Leaves rarely 5 cm. long, with slender petioles much short- 

 er than their rachis. Leaflets about 8 pairs, oval and obtuse, rarely a 

 little obovate, 5-8 mm. long, rarely 1 cm. long. Pubescence very dense 

 and much tangled and almost woolly, or only wavy, but much tangled 

 on the pods. X'either petioles nor peduncles persisting when old. 

 Young plants rathe; acaulescent but older ones with rather slender 

 and knotted stems often 1 dm. long, and with internodes longer than 

 the deltoid and greeni>h stipules, and about as thick as the peduncles, 

 white-hairy and prostrate. The plants form rather large mats. The 

 roots are thickened, fleshy an short. d Tt bloom.s early in April on clay 

 ridges at Rhyolite Nevada, probably in the Charleston Mts., rare at 

 Tonopah, and Darwin Cal. 



