300 The Botanical Gazette, 
subulate linear teeth about equalling the tube: pod linea, 
18 to 20™ long, about 3.5"" broad, sessile. — Basin, Mon- 
tana, July, 1892, F. D. Kelsey. © One of the SCYTOCARM - 
and nearest A. flexuosus Dougl., but distinguished by it 
many slender stems and leaves, linear and acute sessile lea 
lets, shorter peduncles with more elongated racemes, calyx 
with longer and linear teeth, wings with a short broad ant 
acute appendage, and sessile pod. 
4. Astragalus atropubescens, n. sp.—Stems and : 2 
grayish with appressed pubescence, becoming black hairy i. 
the inflorescence and especially on the calyx: stems ert) 
3.5 to 5 high, with very many slender stems fom: 
woody base: stipules lanceolate, acute; leaves few, 13 
20™ long; leaflets twenty-one to thirty-three, linear-ob- 
long, glabrate above, 15™" long, cuspidate, very 
peduncles much shorter than the leaves, together with 
scarcely elongated (eleven to sixteen-flowered) “i 
to 20™ long: flowers declined, ochroleucous, 1.5" : 
calyx oblique, very black with appressed hairs, phe 
long, the subulate teeth half as long as the tube: vexi™un 
wings much longer than the keel: pod linear-oblong, 
ceous, erect, stipitate (stipe 5" long), glabrous, * 
2™ long without the stipe, 5"" broad, 
minate at apex, deeply grooved on t 
pletely two-celled, the ventral suture scarce? The 
Lodge, Montana, June, 1892, F. D. Kelsey. . 
seems to belong with the GALEGIFORMES but it has ane 
and is not so leafy. In addition to the charac it 
tioned it differs from A. Drummondii Dougl. oe pie 
pubescence, much more black hairy calyx, and pgs 
oblong pod; and from A. scopulorum Porter Int aid 
black hairy calyx, much shorter and acuminate . 
with simple deep dorsal sulcus. hi 
5. Hedysarum flavescens, n. sp.—Erect 3 fe 
minutely pubescent: stipules connate, oF cage 0 
tiole; leaflets five or six pairs, oblong-elp een 
long, slightly pubescent beneath: racemes 5: e 
flowered, short, rather dense, elongated et — 
yellow, 15™" long, the wings exceedll bulate, 
shorter ines the “anf calyx-teeth triangular-st oe 
than the tube: pod two or three-jointe@, °| rest H: 
ena, Montana, May, 1892, F. D. Kelsey. a 
