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subulate, 1 ram. long; corolla pale-purple or ochroleucous, about 1 em. long; petals as in the 

 preceding; pod glabrous, the stipe 3-4 mm. long, the body obovoid, about 2 mm. long and 1.5 

 cm. wide, mottled. 



Tvpic locality: Mountain near Sonora Pass. California. 

 Distribution: Mountains of central California and western Nevada. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 18. 



22. Phaca pinosa (Elmer) Rydberg, sp. now 



Astragalus Whitney i pinosus Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 39: 54. 1905. 

 Astragalus Hookerianus pinosus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 564. 1925. 



Perennial, with a thick woody root; stems numerous, 1-2 dm. long, decumbent, glabrous 

 or nearly so; leaves 3-5 cm. long; stipules scaiious, broadly deltoid, about 3 mm. long, the 

 lower connate; leaflets 15-19, sparingly strigulose or glabrate, 6-10 mm. long, linear or 

 oblong; peduncles 4-6 cm. long; racemes short, 5-10-flowered; bracts deltoid, 2-3 mm. long; 

 calyx-tube campanulate, 3 mm. long, white- and black-hairy, the lobes subulate, 1 mm. long; 

 corolla ochroleucous, about 1 cm. long, similar to those of the preceeding species; pod glabrous, 

 the stipe 2-3 mm. long, the body obovoid, 2-2.5 qm. long, 15-18 mm. wide, mottled. 



Type locality': Mt. Pinos, Ventura County, California. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



23. Phaca lenophylla Rydberg, sp. now 



Perennial, with a deep root and cespitose caudex; stems many, blanched, 1—2 dm. long, 

 vil'ous; leaves 3-5 cm. long, spreading; stipules broadly deltoid or triangular, 3-4 mm. long, 

 the lower scarious and connate; leaflets 1 1-17, linear to lance-oblong, 6-16 mm. long, 2-4 mm. 

 wide, villous, mostly acute; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; lacemes short, 5-10-flowered; bracts subu- 

 late, 2 mm. long; calyx-tube 4 mm. long, more or less black-hairy, the lobes lanceolate, 2-2.5 

 mm. long; corolla purplish, 10-12 mm. long; banner obovate, gradually tapeiing below; wings 

 somewhat shorter, the blade oblong-lunate, obtuse, with a reflexed basal auricle, slightly 

 longer than the claw; keel-petals similar but broader and darker; pod glabrous, mottled, the 

 stipe 3 mm. long, the body obovoid, 3-3.5 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide; seeds brown, very 

 obliquely reniform, 3 mm. long. 



Type collected on Tinker's Knobs, Placer Countv, California, altitude 9,000 feet, July 24, 1892, 

 Sonne (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Sierra Nevada of central California. 



7. Pictae. Slender, rush-like perennials, with horizontal rootstocks, and linear-filiform 

 leaflets, often much reduced in number and the terminal one replaced by the prolonged rachis. 

 Calyx-teeth lance-subulate. Corolla ochroleucous, with purple-tipped keel; banner strongly 

 arched. Pod papery, mottled, broadly ellipsoid, much-inflated; cross-section orbicular. 



24. Phaca longifolia (Pursh) Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 346. 

 1838. 



-Psoralea longifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 741. 1814. 

 . Orobus longif alius Nutt. Gen. 2: 95. 1818. 

 -PhvsonJra longifolia Raf. Atl. Jour. 145. 1832. 



Astragalus filifolius A. Gray, Pacif. R. R. Rep. 12: 42. 1860. Not A. filifolius Clos, 1846. 



Astragalus pictus filifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 215. 1864. 



Astragalus ceramicus imperfectus Sheldon Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 19. 1894. 



Astragalus ceramicus Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 137 [not of page 19]. 1894. 



Astragalus ceramicus longifolius Rydb. Bot. Surv. Neb. 3: 31. 1894. 



Astragalus longifolius Rydb. Fl. Neb. 21: 47. 1895. 



Astragalus angustus longifolius M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II, 5: 635. 1895. 



Astragalus angustus imperfectus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 62. 1902. 



Astragalus angustus ceramicus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 62. 1902. 



Perennial, with a creeping rootstock; stem ascending or decumbent, slender, 1-3 dm. high, 

 often branched, canescent-strigose ; leaves erect or nearly so, 7-20 cm. long, canescent; stipules 

 deltoid-subulate, 4-5 mm. long, the lower connate; terminal leaflet represented by the prolonged 

 rachis; lateial leaflets wanting or few, linear, 1-2 cm. long; peduncles 2-5 cm. long; racemes 



