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longer than the tube; corolla yellow or ochroleucous; legume 15 

 to 20 mm. in length, coriaceous, inflated, turgid, oblong-ovate, 

 straight, appressed-pubescent, sessile, erect spreading, dorsal 

 suture impressed, cross-section obcordate, unilocular, few to 

 many seeded. 



North America: Saskatchewan and Brit. Colot, to Minn., 

 Dak., Wyo., Nebr., Kan., Ind. Ter. and Texas. 



Minnesota: Chippewa county, 



Minn, specimens in herb: Moyer 257, Montevideo; Mayer 258, 

 Montevideo. 



Astragalus elatiocarpns Sheld. Bull. Minn. Geol. & 

 Nat. Hist. Surv. n. 9. 20. 1894. 



A. lotijlorus Hook, forma brachypus A. Gray, Proc, Am. Acad 

 6:209. 1866. 



Perennial, acaulescent or somewhat caespitose with short, 

 thick, woody, rarely branching stems, covered with white, ap- 

 pressed hairs; leaves 5 to 13 cm. in length, erect pubescent with 

 long appressed hairs; leaflets 6 to 16 mm. in length, usually in four 

 pairs, rarely five or six, broadly lanceolate, acute or in some 

 forms obtuse or rarely retuse, pubescent with white, appressed 

 hairs beneath, slightly so above; stipules 3 to 5 mm. in length, 

 ovate acuminate; peduncles elongating after the fruit has ma- 

 tured, becoming as long or slightly longer than the leaves; 

 flowers 3 to 5 mm. in length, sessile, few, usually three or four; 

 calyx short campanulate, the teeth longer than the tube; corolla 

 yellow, the keel inflexed; legume 18 to 25 mm. in length, ovate - 

 acuminate, incurved, sessile, woody, pubescent with white, 

 somewhat spreading hairs, dorsal suture rarely very slightly 

 impressed, unilocular, few to many seeded. 



North America: From Colo, and Wyo., to Tex., Minn, and 

 Hudson bay. 



Minnesota: Otter Tail, Big Stone and Traverse counties. 



Minn, specimens in herb: Sheldon 3809, Silver lake. Otter 

 Tail county; Sheldon 3423, Eagle lake, Otter Tail county; Shel- 

 don 3728, Fergus Falls; Sheldon 7293, Graceville; Sheldon 7433, 

 lake Traverse, Traverse county; Sheldon 7210, Brown's Val- 

 ley, Traverse county. 



Astragalus iioglectus (T. & G.) 



Phaca neglectaT. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 344. 1838. 

 not A. neglectus Fiscn. in Steud. Nom. 1 : 162. 1840. 

 A. cooperi A. Gkay, Man. Bot. Ed. II. 98. 1856. 



