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glabrous, the stipe about 1 cm. long, bent upward in fruit, the body oblong, rather abruptly 

 contracted at each end, 1.5-2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide and 6 mm. thick, reniform in cross-section, 

 the septum fully 1 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Beaverdam Mountains, Utah. 



Distribution: Arizona and southern Nevada to Idaho and Oregon. 



Illustrations: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 37; pi. 38 (as var. spencianus). 



14. Tium malheurense (A. Heller) Rydberg. 



Astragalus Cusickii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 26: 541. 1899. Not .4. Cusickii A. Grav. 1878. 

 Astragalus malheurensis A. Heller. Cat. N. An. PI. ed. 2. 7. 1900. 



A perennial; stems several, erect, 3-5 dm. high, strigose; leaves ascending, 6-10 cm. long, 

 the rachis strigose; stipules lanceolate, 3 mm. long; leaflets 13-21, linear, 2-3 cm. long, about 2 

 mm. wide, acute, glabrous above, strigose beneath; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; racemes 5-10 

 cm. long, lax; bracts subulate, 2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, 1.5 mm. 

 long; corolla ochroleucous, with purple-tipped keel; banner 15-18 mm. long, obovate; wings 

 12-14 mm. long, the blade oblanceolate ; keel-petals 10 mm. long, the blade broadly lunate, 

 rounded at the apex; pod glabrous, the stipe about 1 cm. long, curved upward, the body upright, 

 oblong, 2 cm. long, the cross-section obcordate, the septum about 1 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Malheur. Oregon. 

 Distribution: Malheur County, Oregon. 



15. Tium arrectum (A. Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 

 40:49. 1913. 



Astragalus leucophyllus Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6: 211. 1847. Not A. leucophyllus Willd. 1803. 



Astragalus arrectus A. Grav, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 289. 1870. 



Astragalus palousensis Piper. Bot. Gaz. 22: 489. 1896. 



Astragalus arrectus palousensis M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 68. 1902. 



Phaca arrecla Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 371. 1906. 



A cespitose perennial, with woody root and short caudex; stems several, 3-6 dm. high, 

 sulcate or angled, sparingly strigose; leaves ascending, 7-15 cm. long, the rachis strigose; 

 stipules deltoid, acuminate, spreading or reflexed; leaflets 13-31, linear or oblong, or those 

 of the lower leaves obovate, 8-20 mm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, obtuse, rounded, or rarely retuse 

 at the apex, glabrous above, strigose beneath; peduncles 1-2 dm. long; racemes 4—10 cm. long; 

 bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, black-hairy; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the 

 tube 4—5 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad; corolla white or ochroleucous, 14—15 mm. long; banner 

 obovate, moderately arched at the middle; wings slightly longer, the blade oblanceolate, 

 slightly falcate, with a very large reflexed auricle; keel-petals shorter, broadly obliquely 

 lunate, abruptly arched above the middle, with a small auricle ; pod strigose, or in age glabrate, 

 the stipe 4—5 mm. long; body oblong, abruptly acute at each end, obtuse on the upper suture, 

 sulcate on the lower, about 15 mm. long, 4 mm. wide and thick, the cross-section broadly cor- 

 date, the septum less than 1 mm. wide. 



Type locality: Kooskooski River, Idaho. 



Distribution: Idaho, and western Washington and Oregon. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. pi. 37 (var. palousensis). 



16. Tium remotum (M. E. Jones) Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Astragalus arrectus remotus M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 162. 1923. 



A branched perennial, suffruticose at the base; stems branched, 3-4 dm. high, the perennial 

 part about 1 dm. high, striate and strigose, flexuose; leaves ascending, 5-10 cm. long; stipules 

 broadly deltoid, 3 mm. long; leaflets 15-25, linear or oblong, 4—8 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, 

 glabrous above, strigose beneath, obtuse or truncate at the apex; peduncles 7-10 cm. long; 

 racemes lax, 5-10 cm. long; bracts subulate, 2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers strongly 

 ascending; calyx strigose, the tube 3 mm. long; corolla white, with purple-tipped keel; banner 

 about 13 mm. long, obovate, moderately arched at the middle; wings much shorter, the blade 

 oblanceolate, with a large auricle; keel-petals shorter, the blade broadly obliquely lunate, 

 nearly semiorbicular, but more strongly arched towards the apex; pod glabrous, the stipe 3 



