Sheldon: species of astragalus. 169 



Astragalus salinus Howell. Erythea. 1 : 111. 1898. 

 Oregon and Washington. 



Astragalus latus Jones. Zoe. 4-: 272. 1893. 



A. diphyms A. Gkay, var. latus, Jones. Zoe. 3:287, 1893. 

 Nevada. 



Astragalus bajaensis n. sp. 



Perennial, glabrous throughout or slightly puberulent; stems 

 3 to 5 dm. in length, decumbent or semi erect and supported, 

 striate, rarely very slightly soft-pubescent with soft hairs, 

 diffusely branching: leaves 7 to 10 cm. in length, the rachis 

 sulcate; leaflets 8 to 15 mm. in length, in fourteen or fifteen 

 pairs, narrowly obovate-oblong, emarginate; stipules small, 

 deltoid acuminate, reflexed; peduncles small, 3 cm. in length, 

 slender, subcapitately four to six flowered; ^oi^ers small, 6 to 

 7 mm. in length, suberect; calyx narrowly campanulate, the 

 teeth nearly one-half the length of the tube; corolla ochroleucous; 

 legume 8 to 10 mm. in length, membranaceous, glabrous, ovate 

 with along, filiform tip, straight or slightly incurved, didymous, 

 the sutures meeting and uniting nearest the ventral, six to 

 eight seeded. 



Collected near San Gregano, Lower California, February, 

 1879, by Mr. T. S.Brandegee, and communicated by Miss Alice 

 Eastwood of the California Academy of Sciences. The species 

 is nearest to Astragalus fremontii T. and G. , 



Astragalus fremontii T. and G. Pac. R. Rep. 4:80. 

 excl. var. 



A. ineptus A. Gkay. Proc. Am. Acad. 7:525. 1868. 

 A. lentiginosiis DouGL. \diV. fremontii Wats. Bot. King. Rep. 6: 

 66. 1871. 



Nevada, Arizona and California. 



Astragalus macdougali n. sp. 



Perennial, glabrous or slightly pubescent when young; stems 

 2 to 2.5 dm. high, erect or decumbent, striate, six to many 

 from a stout root, not branching; leaves 7 to 9 cm. in length, 

 the rachis striate, appressed x)ubescent; leaflets 10 to 12 mm. in 

 length, in six to nine pairs, narrowly obovate, obtuse or retuse; 

 stipules triangular falcate, acuminate, subsheathing, becoming 

 reflexed; peduncles 8 to 10 cm. in length, exceeding the leaves. 



