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13. Astragalus mogollonicus Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 

 8:97. 1881. 



A subacaulescent cespitose perennial; leaves 6-12 cm. long, ascending; stipules lanceolate, 

 about 1 cm. long; petioles and rachis densely shaggy-pubescent with spreading brown hairs; 

 leaflets 17-23, suborbicular or broadly obovate, 5-10 mm. long, densely brown-silky- villous; 

 peduncles about 7 cm. long, shaggy-pubescent; racemes head-like, 3-4 cm. long; bracts lance- 

 olate, 5 mm. long; calyx silky-villous, the teeth subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla purple, about 2 

 cm. long, resembling that of A . Bigelovii; pod obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, about 1 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 thick and wide, straight on the upper suture, not sulcate, densely villous. 



Type locality: Mogollon Mountains. New Mexico. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



14. Astragalus marcidus Greene, sp. nov. 



A subacaulescent cespitose perennial; stems several, very short; leaves about 1 dm. long, 

 spreading; stipules deltoid, about 5 mm. long, silky-villous with long loose hairs; peduncles 

 7-12 cm. long, long-villous; racemes very dense, 5-8 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, about 

 5 mm. long; calyx loosely silky-villous, the tube 6 mm. long, the teeth 2 mm. long, subu- 

 late; corolla apparently white, 12 mm. long, nearly as in A. Bigelovii, but the keel-petals 

 broader and shorter; pod densely villous, 1 cm. long or less, rounded-ovoid, slightly arched, 

 sulcate on the upper suture, 4 mm. wide, 6 mm. thick. 



Type collected in the Davis Mountains, Texas, April 28, 1902, Tracy & Earle 319 (herb. N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution: Western Texas and Chihuahua. 



15. Astragalus anisus M. E. Jones, Zoe 4: 34. 1893. 



A perennial, with a taproot and cespitose caudex; stems decumbent, less than 1 dm. 

 high; leaves crowded, 3-7 cm. long; stipules deltoid, strigose, about 5 mm. long; leaflets 1 1-15, 

 obovate or oval, 4-7 mm. long, appressed-silky-canescent; peduncles 2-3 cm. long; bracts 

 lanceolate or lance-linear, 4—6 mm. long; calyx silky-canescent, the tube cylindric, 6-7 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. broad, the teeth subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla apparently white, 15 mm. long; 

 banner obovate, only slightly arched; wings nearly as long, the blade oblong, slightly falcate, 

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

 auricle, shorter than the claw; pod strigose, rounded-ellipsoid, 15-18 mm. long, nearly 1 

 cm. wide and 12-15 mm. thick, leathery, slightly sulcate on both sutures. 



Type locality: Pueblo, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: M. E. Jones. Rev. Astrag. pi. 60. 



2. Uliginosi. Plants perennial, with a short rootstock; stems elongate, leafy; leaves 

 more or less strigose, but green; racemes dense, elongate, spike-like; calyx-tube cylindro-cam- 

 panulate, the teeth usually shorter than the tube; corolla mostly ochroleucous; banner moder- 

 ately arched ; pod ellipsoid or oblong, nearly terete in cross-section, ascending (except in no. 1 S) . 



16. Astragalus carolinianus L. Sp. PI. 757. 1753. 



Astragalus canadensis carolinianus M. E. Jones. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. S: 647. 1895. 



A perennial; stem 3-6 dm. high, terete, barely striate, glabrous or sparingly strigose, 

 flexuose; leaves spreading, 10-17 cm. long; stipules deltoid, acuminate, 3-4 mm. long; leaflets 

 13-27, oblong or elliptic, 1-3 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, thin, glabrous above, minutely strigulose 

 beneath, rounded or slightly retuse at the apex; peduncles about 1 dm. long, strict; racemes 

 8-12 cm. long, many-flowered; bracts subulate, 3 mm. long; flowers reflexed; calyx sparingly 

 strigulose, the tube 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, the teeth subulate, nearly 3 mm. long ; corolla 

 white, about 12 mm. long; banner oblanceolate, slightly arched at the middle; wings shorter, 

 the blade oblong, slightly falcate, about as long as the claw, with a long reflexed basal auricle 

 one third as long as the blade itself; keel-petals shorter, the blade broadly lunate, abruptly 



