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Fig. 4, upon which no oogonia have developed. Cases like that shown in 
Fig. 3, however, and another case observed (of which, unfortunately, no cam- 
era-lucida sketch could be secured), which bore a whorl of six antheridia, ex- 
actly corresponding in position to the normal oogonia, belong certainly to type 
3, as given, 
Astragalus Blakei n. sp.--A. Roddinsii borealis n. var. in MS. and 
herbarium, 1894. 
A. Robbinsii Gray’s Man., 2nd ed. (1856.) 
A. alpinus L. Gray’s Man., 3rd ed. (1862.) ; 
Perennial, few to many stemmed, from a fibrous knotty root deeply 
fixed in the cliffs. 
Stems 3-5*™ high, erect, sometimes slightly decumbent at base, 
sparsely pubescent, slightly angular, twisted, striate. 
Stipules erect, upper ones becoming deflexed, triangular ovate, 
acute or obtuse, 4-6™™ long; leaves 3-10™ in length, with from 5-8, 
generally 6-7, pairs of leaflets; leaflets opposite or nearly so, on peti- 
oles about 2™ long, oblong, elliptical, the middle ones larger and the 
upper ones generally decreasing in size faster than the lower, obtuse 
and frequently emarginate, green and glabrous above, mealy pubes- 
cent beneath, with white appressed hairs, becoming more glabrous 
with age. 
Peduncles ome or two, 10-25™ in length, very erect, twisted striate, 
nigrescently pubescent. 
Raceme ovate, becoming oblong and loose, 5-15 flowered. 
Flowers about 8™ long, pedicels often equalling or exceeding the 
length of the calyx. 
Bracts linear, acute about half as long as the pedicels, calyx tubular 
campanulate, nigrescently hairy, the linear bluntish teeth more hairy 
and one-third the length of the calyx. Corolla strongly resembling 
that of 4. Robdinsiz, light violet or sometimes white with the keel 
tinged with violet or purple. Legume 8-25" in length, horizontal, trt- 
angular-turgid, oblong and obtuse or acute at both ends. 
‘Stipe shorter than calyx, thickly pubescent with whitish or nigres- 
cent hairs slightly transparent, tipped with the recurved persistent 
style, doth sutures curved, dorsally sulcate, ofterm but slightly so, 
4-8-seeded, 
Type stations: Willoughby Mt., Smuggler’s and Nebraska Notches, 
Vt; Willoughby Mt., Westmore, Vt. Rev. Joseph Blake (previous : 
1856), etc. Smuggler’s Notch, Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, Vt.,C.G. i 
etc., Nebraska Notch, Mt. Mansfield, Underhill,Vt., Cc. G. Pringle and 2 
H. Horsford. Fort Kent, St. John River, Maine, Miss Kate Furbish. 
Specimens of the Rev. S. R: Busler from Forbeau, Labrador, of J. 
Macoun from the western mountains, and of W. H. Dall from Alaska 
appear to be of this species -W. W. EGGLESTON, Rutland, Vt. 
