184 RYDBERG: NOTES ON FABACEAE—I 
The type came from Thompson's Springs, Utah. The decidedly 
oblique pods and black-hairy calyx of H. Dodgeanus would 
make the species distinct enough, if these features should prove 
constant; otherwise the two species should perhaps be united. 
In this case Jones’s specific name should be retained. 
14. HoMALOBUS CLEMENTIS Rydb. See my notes under 
H. Standleyi above. Notwithstanding Macbride’s remarks and 
his reduction of this species to a variety of Astragalus tenellus, 
I still consider it nearest to H. wingatanus and worthy of recogni- © 
tion. In both H. wingatanus and the allied H. lancearius the 
pod is acute at each end, as in H. Clementis, and a minute stipe 
is sometimes produced. In H. lancearius, in fact, this stipe 
may be fully as long as in H. Clementis. The following speci- 
mens may be cited :— 
CoLoRADO: Saugre de Cristo, Clements; Marshall Pass, 
Baker 489; without locality, C. H. Hall 
15. HOMALOBUS WINGATANUS (S. Wats.) Rydb. To the 
specimens listed by Macbride the following may be added :— 
CoLorAbo: Mancus, Eastwood 
Urauw: Monticello, Rydberg & Gare QI5I, 9228. 
16. HOMALOBUS LANCEARIUS (A. Gray) Rydb. This species 
is still known with certainty only from the type collection: 
Beaver Dam, Arizona, 1877, Palmer 114. A flowering specimen 
from Allen Canyon in southeastern Utah, Rydberg & Garrett 
9309, resembles the type very much but is doubtful in the 
absence of fruit. In the original description of Astragalus 
lancearius, Gray called attention to the fact that the species 
strongly resembled A. filipes in habit and in flowers, but that the 
pod was perfectly sessile. On this account it would have to 
be placed in the Tenelli group, probably near H. wingatanus 
and H. acerbus. Jones* claimed that the species was the same 
as Astragalus recurvus Greene, which on account of its completely 
two-celled fruit is a species of Hamosa. Later he} retracted his 
statement, adding that A. lancearius was ‘‘a good species but 
near A. Rusbyi Greene.” The first part of his conclusion is 
correct but the latter part is far from the mark. 
17. HomaLosus Episcopus (S. Wats.) Rydb. Under Astrag- 
alus Coltoni Jones, Macbride makes the following statement: 
* Proc. Calif. Acad. H. 5: 636. 1895. 
{ Contr. West. Bot. 8: 12. 1898. 
