CATALOGUE. 95 
pedicels, in a loose elongated raceme, purple: calyx-teeth shorter than the 
tube: pod very shortly stipitate, pubescent, reflexed, half an inch long or 
less, oblong-ovate, nearly terete or slightly compressed.—F rom Colorado to 
Wyoming and the Saskatchewan; South Park, Wolf (233). 
AstraGaLus atpinus, Linn—From Maine to Washington Territory 
and northward, and south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado; South 
Park, Wolf (211, 229, 244, 245, 246). 
ASTRAGALUS LOTIFLORUS, Hook. (Fl. i, 152).—Perennial, hoary with 
appressed silky hairs, very low and diffuse: leaflets 2 to 5 pairs, oblong to 
linear, a half to an inch long: flowers few, yellow, small, nearly sessile in a 
long-pedunculate or sessile spike: calyx-teeth at least as long as the tube, 
and often nearly equalling the petals: pods coriaceous, about an inch long, 
sessile, straight, pubescent, acuminate-oblong, obcompressed, 1-celled, 
with a more or less deep dorsal furrow, and the ventral suture somewhat 
prominent.—From Texas to Nebraska and northward; at Denver, Wolf 
(239). 
AstraGaLus Missourtensis, Nutt. (Gen. ii, 99)—Perennial, canescent 
with closely appressed dense silky straight pubescence, low and shortly 
caulescent or nearly stemless: leaflets 4 to 9 pairs, oblong to rarely obo- 
vate, 2 to 4 lines long, acute or obtuse: spikes short, on peduncles equalling 
the leaves: flowers purple, rather large: calyx-teeth much shorter than the 
cylindrical appressed-silky tube: pods 8 to 12 lines long, thick-coriaceous, 
oblong and somewhat obcompressed, nearly straight, obtuse at base, pubes- 
cent and rugose, 1-celled, with the ventral suture prominent, and often more 
or less concave on the back.—A rather common species, from the Saskatch- 
ewan and Wyoming Territory to New Mexico; at Kit Carson, Colo., Wolf 
(240), and at Deer Spring, Ariz. (186). 
AstraGALus SHortianvs, Nutt. (Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 331). (A. cyaneus, 
Gray, Pl. Fendl 34.)—Like the preceding, but the leaves broader and 
usually obovate; the pubescence upon the calyx of coarse, somewhat 
entangled hairs, not appressed; the pod as in the last, but larger, longer 
(sometimes two inches long), and more curved.—Colorado to Wyoming 
and New Mexico; Clear Creek, Colo., Wolf (241), and N. Mexico, Rothrock 
(1112). 
