96 BOTANY. 
Astracatus Parryi, Gray (Am. Journ. Sci 2d ser. xxxiii, 410).—Simi- 
lar in habit,-but villous throughout with loose spreading hairs; stems 
decumbent: leaflets obovate to oblong, often retuse and usually small: 
calyx-teeth large and about equalling the tube: pods narrower, an inch long 
and curved, more compressed, and nearly 2-celled by the depression of the 
sutures.—Colorado to Northwestern Texas; Wolf (237), but the locality 
not given. 
. ASTRAGALUS IopANTHUS, Watson (Bot. King’s Expl. 70).—Northern 
Nevada and Utah. Flowering specimens collected in Cafion de Chelli (212) 
(also by Dr. Coulter, on Hayden’s Survey, in Clear Creek Cafion) are per- 
haps referable to this species, though the corolla is nearly white. | 
Astracatus Uranensis, Torr. & Gray (Pacif. R. Rep. ii, 120).—Utah 
to Nevada; near Salt Lake, 1872. 
hibeicisita LoncHocarPus, Torr. (Pacif. R. Rep. iv, 80).—Peren- 
nial, erect, slender, puberulent or glabrate, a foot high or more: leaflets 4 
pairs or fewer, often only a terminal inarticulated one, linear, about an inch 
long: flowers ochroleucous, 6 to 8 lines long, spreading in a loose long- 
pedunculate raceme: calyx-teeth short : pods membranous, linear, attenuate 
at each end and long-stipitate, an inch and a half long, straight, glabrous, 
reflexed, terete or obcompressed, 1-celled, the sutures usually somewhat 
impressed.—Colorado to New Mexico and Utah; Santa Fé (18). 
ASTRAGALUS PECTINATUS, Dougl. (Hook. FI. i, 149).—Perennial, puber- 
ulent or glabrate, erect and stout, a foot high or more: leaflets 5 to 8 
pairs, not jointed upon the rhachis, narrowly linear, an inch or two long : 
flowers large, spreading in a loose pedunculate raceme, ochroleucous : pods 
thick-cartilaginous, somewhat pubescent, ovate or oblong, turgid, sessile, 
half an inch long, reflexed, 1-celled, with thick prominent sutures.—From 
the Saskatchewan to a and Oregon; at Kit Carson, Colo., Wolf 
(234). 
_ Astracatus Fenpiert, Gray (Pl. Wright. ii, 44)—Perennial, puber- 
ulent, slender, erect or decumbent, a foot high or more: leaflets 7 to 12 
pairs, oblong to linear, obtuse, about half an inch long: flowers purple, 
4 or 5 lines long, spreading in loose long-pedunculate racemes: calyx-tube 
and teeth short: pods coriaceous, slightly pubescent or glabrate, broadly 
