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black-hairy; racemes 5-15-flowered, 2-3 cm. long, in age 3-6 cm. long; bracts linear or subulate; 

 pedicels 2-4 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, the teeth subulate, 

 1-1.5 mm. long, the upper slightly shorter; corolla light-violet, nearly 10 mm. long; banner 

 obovate, rather abruptly arched at the middle; wings shorter, the blade oblong, falcate, with 

 a large basal auricle; keel-petals still shorter, the blade obliquely obovate with a large auricle; 

 pod densely black-hairy, the stipe about 4 mm. long, the body 15-20 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, 2.5 

 mm. thick, tapering at each end, the lower suture less curved than the upper, the septum 0.3 

 wide; mm. seeds 4-8, obliquely round-reniform, 2 mTi. long, nearly black. 



Type locality: Willoughby Mountain. Vermont. 



Distribution: Labrador, Maine, and Vermont. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 26 (as A. labradoricus). 



1 1 . Atelophragma Macounii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 32:660. 1906. 



Astragalus Robbinsii occidenlalis S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 70, in part. 1871; Brand. Bull. U. S. Geol. 



Surv. Terr. 2: 235. 1876. 

 Astragalus Macounii Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Card. 1: 243. 1900. 

 Astragalus labradoricus occidenlalis M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 134, in part. 1923. 



A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stems 3-6 cm. high, erect, striate and strigose; 

 leaves 5-10 cm. long, the rachis strigose; stipules ovate-lanceolate, free; leaflets 9-17, oblong, 

 oval, or elliptic, obtuse or rounded, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 4—10 mm. wide, thin, glabrous above, 

 paler and strigose beneath; peduncles 7-15 cm. long; racemes 2-5 cm., in age 4—15 cm. long; 

 bracts lineaY, 2-3 mm. long; pedicels 3-4 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 4 mm. long, 

 the teeth subulate, about 1 mm. long; corolla bluish-purple, about 1 cm. long; banner obovate, 

 rather abruptly arched at the middle; wings shorter, the blade elliptic, slightly falcate, with a 

 large basal auricle; keel-petals much shorter, the blade obliquely obovate, with a large auricle; 

 pod black-hairy, the stipe 3 mm. long, the body gradually acute at each end, nearly equally 

 convex on both sutures, 16-18 mm. long, about 5 mm. wide and 3 mm. thick, the septum 0-7 

 mm. wide; seeds 4-6, round-reniform, dark-brown. 



Type locality: Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake. British Columbia. 

 Distribution: Alberta to Colorado, Idaho, British Columbia, and Alaska (?). 

 Illustrations: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 27, f. 86a (as .4. labradoricus) and /. d (as v. occi- 

 denlalis). 



12. Atelophragma Fernaldi Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 126. 1928. 



A perennial, with a stout root and cespitose subterranean caudex; stems about 3 dm. high, 

 angled, sparingly strigose, more or less purplish; leaves 4—6 cm. long; stipules deltoid, about 

 5 mm. long; leaflets 9-13, oblong or elliptic, 1.5-2 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, sparingly hairy above, 

 grayish-strigose beneath, rounded at each end; peduncles 5-7 cm. long; racemes 3-6 cm. long; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, 3 mm. long; calyx white-strigose, the tube 3 mm. long, the teeth lance- 

 subulate, 1 .5-2 mm. long ; corolla purple, about 1 cm. long ; banner broadly obovate, moderately 

 arcuate; wings shorter, the blade oblong, falcate; keel-petals still shorter, the blade rounded 

 at the apex; pod whitish or grayish-strigose, the stipe slightly shorter than the calyx-tube, the 

 body oblanccolate in outline, acute at each end, about 1.5 cm. long. 



Type locality: Blac Sablon, Labrador. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



13. Atelophragma Harringtonii (Coville & Standley) Rydb. Bull. 

 Torrey Club 55: 126. 1928. 



Astragalus Harringtonii Coville & Standley; Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 55: 127, as synonym. 1928. 



A perennial, with a rootstock; stems decumbent at the base, 2-3 dm. high, angled, sparingly 

 pubescent with black ascending hairs; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules broadly ovate, 5-8 mm. 

 long; leaflets 11-15, elliptic or oval, 1-2 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, sparingly pilose but soon 

 glabrate above, rather densely white-pilose beneath, at least when young; peduncles 6-10 cm. 



