272 RypsBerG: NorEes ON FABACEAE—II 
CALIFORNIA: Susanville, Brandegee; same locality, Jones; 
Lava beds, Modoc County, M. S. Baker, in 1893. 
45. Homalobus gaviotus (Elmer) Rydb. comb. nov. 
Astragalus gaviotus Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 39: 54. 1905. 
This species is referred with some doubt to this group as the 
flowers have not been seen. The pod is strigose, nearly straight 
on the upper suture, the stipe is shorter than in the other species, 
the raceme is short even in fruit and the leaflets broad. 
CALIFORNIA: Gaviota, Elmer 3759; same locality, Eastwood 55 
(determined erroneously as Phaca canescens Nutt.). 
