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pod reflexed, sessile, long-beaked, the body about 1 cm. long, glabrous, compressed, 2-4- 

 seeded, the sutures acute; seeds obliquely reniform, 2.5 mm. long, brown. 



Type collected at La Bolsa. Los Angeles County, California, in October, 1882, 5. B. & W. F . 

 Parish 1117 (Morong Herbarium). 



Distribution: Southern California. 



79. Phaca Hornii (A. Gray) Rydberg. 



Astragalus Hornii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 398. 1868. 



Perennial; stem 3-5 dm. high, erect, striate, sparingly strigose or glabrate; leaves about 

 1 dm. long, spreading; stipules deltoid, distinct, 3 mm. long, reflexed; leaflets 21-29, oblong, 

 1-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, sparingly strigose; peduncles 7-10 cm. long; racemes short and 

 dense, 2-4 cm. long, the flowers and fruits crowded; calyx more or less black-hairy, the tube 

 3 mm. long, the lobes subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, nearly 1 cm. long; banner 

 obovate; wing- petals nearly as long, the blade obliquely obovate, about equaling the claw, 

 with a large basal auricle; keel-petals similar to the wings, slightly more curved; pod sessile, 

 short-villous, ovoid, tapering into a beak, 12 mm. long, 8-9 mm. wide; seeds similar to those of 

 the preceeding. 



Type locality: Near Fort Tejon, California. 

 Distribution: Southern California and Lower California. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones. Rev. Astrag. pi. 10, f, 46. 



80. Phaca bajaensis (Sheldon) Rydberg. 



Astragalus bajaensis Sheldon. Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 169. 1894. 



Astragalus miserandus Greene. Erythea 3: 76. 1895. 



Astragalus Hornii minutiflorus M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 5: 677. 1895. 



Astragalus Hornii bahaeensis M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 62. 1902. 



Perennial; stem decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, striate, glabrate, or slightly hairy when young; 

 leaves ascending, 7-10 cm. long; stipules deltoid, 3 mm. long, reflexed; leaflets 21-33, obovate 

 to oblong, retuse at the apex, 8-15 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, sparingly appressed-hairy when 

 young, soon glabrate; peduncles 5-7 cm. long; racemes dense and short, sub-capitate, 1-2 cm. 

 long; bracts ovate, 2 mm. long; calyx appressed-pubescent, the tube about 3 mm. long, the 

 teeth about 1 mm. long, the upper two deltoid, the lower three lance-subulate; corolla white, 

 6-7 mm. long, similar to that of P. Hornii; pod 10-12 mm. long, 7-8 mm. wide, ovoid, rather 

 sparingly short-hairy. 



Type locality: San Gregorio. Lower California. 

 Distribution: Lower California. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 10. 



81. Phaca tularensis Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Apparently perennial; stem at least 3 dm. high, strongly sulcate, sparingly pilose; leaves 

 spreading, 2-4 cm. long; stipules deltoid, 4 mm. long, reflexed; leaflets 13-17, crowded, ob- 

 lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, rather copiously long-pilose, especially when young; 

 peduncles 1-4 cm. long, pilose ; racemes dense, 1-2 cm. long ; calyx pilose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, 

 the teeth subulate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla apparently white or ochroleucous, 8 mm. long; 

 banner obovate; wings much shorter, the blade obliquely oblong, with a larger auricle; keel- 

 petals nearly as long, the blade broadly lunate; pod long-pilose, obliquely ovoid, long-beaked, 

 the upper suture slightly curved upward, the body about 1 cm. long, few-seeded. 



Type collected near Tulare Lake, southern California, Lemmon (Gray Herb.). 

 Distribution: Type locality and Pyramid Lake, Nevada. 



20. Jejunae. Low perennials with a cespitose woody caudex, subacaulescent, and the 

 leaves with a stiff rachis and numerous minute leaflets. Racemes few-flowered. Pod sessile, 

 round-ellipsoid, less than 1 cm. long, apiculate. 



