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long, black-hairy ; bracts linear-subulate, -1—5 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 5 mm. long, 

 2.5-3 mm. broad, the teeth 3-4 mm. long, subulate; corolla purplish, 12-15 mm. long; banner 

 obovate, strongly arched at the middle, deeply retuse at the apex; wings nearly as long, the 

 blade oblanceolate with a large reflexed auricle; keel-petals much shorter, the blade obliquely 

 obovate, rounded at the apex; pod black-hairy, the stipe about equaling the calyx-tube, the 

 body lance-elliptic, acute at each end, 10-12 mm. long, 4—5 mm. broad, the sutures nearly 

 equally curved, the lower sulcate, the partial septum about 1 mm. wide; seeds dark-brown, 

 orbicular-reniform, fully 2 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Goodnews Bay, Alaska. 

 Distribution: Alaska, near the coast. 



14. Atelophragma Collieri Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 127. 1928. 



A perennial; stems 3-6 dm. high, somewhat angled, glabrous or nearly so, branched; leaves 

 nearly sessile, about 1 dm. long, the rachis glabrous; stipules lanceolate, 5 mm. long, green; 

 leaflets 1 1-15, elliptic, 1.5-3 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, glabrous and dark-green above, paler and 

 sparingly pilose beneath, rounded or retuse at the apex; peduncles 10-15 cm. long, angled; 

 racemes 5-15 cm. long, the rachis sparingly black-hairy; bracts subulate, 3 mm. long; pedicels 

 about 3 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 3 mm. long, oblique above, the teeth subulate, 

 1.5 mm. long; corolla apparently white, 12 mm. long or more; banner obovate, retuse at the 

 apex, strongly arcuate; wings slightly shorter, the blade oblanceolate; keel-petals shorter, the 

 blade broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod membranous, black-hairy, the stipe 5 mm. long 

 or more, the body fully 2 cm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, acute at each end, the cross-section elliptic, 

 the partial septum fully 1 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Eagle. Alaska. 



Distribution: Alaska. 



3. Oroboidea. Pod subsessile or sessile, turgid, black-hairy, the sutures not prominent, 

 nearly equally curved, not sulcate. Corolla rather small or middlesized, purple or rarely white. 



15. Atelophragma occidentale (S. Wats.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 55: 128. 



Astragalus Robbinsii occidenlalis S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 70. 1871. 

 Astragalus occidenlalis M. E. Jones. Contr. W. Bot. 8: 17. 1898. 

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



A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock; stem 2-5 dm. high, striate, glabrous or nearly so; 

 haves 5-10 cm. long, ascending; stipules ovate, 6-7 mm. long, green; leaflets 9-13, elliptic or 

 oval, rounded at the apex, 1-3 cm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, thin, glabrous above, sparingly strigose 

 beneath; peduncles S— 15 dm. long; racemes lax, 5-15 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, 3 mm. 

 long; pedicels 4—5 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube about 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, the 

 teeth subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla purple, similar to that of .1. Macounii; wings emarginate; 

 pod subsessile, black-strigose, ellipsoid, 15-18 mm. long, tapering at each end, sometimes 

 slightly sulcate on the lower suture, the septum nearly 1 mm. wide, the cross-section elliptic. 



Type locality: East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. 

 Distribution: Type locality and vicinity. 

 Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 27. 



16. Atelophragma elegans (Hook.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 32: 660. 1906. 



Phaca elegans Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 144. 1831. 



Phaca elegans minor Hook. PI. Bor. Am. 1: 144. 1831. 



Phaca parvijlora Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 348. 1838. 



Astragalus oroboides A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 33: 410. 1862. Not .4. oroboides Hornem. 1810. 



Astragalus oroboides americanus A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 205. 1864. 



Astragalus elegans Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. 9: 154. 1894. Not .4. elegans Bunge, 1868-9. 



Astragalus elegans curliflorus Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 242. 1900. 



