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Anisolotus brachycarpus (Benth.) 



Hosackia brachycarpa Benth. PI. Hartw. 306. 1849. 



Lotus brachycarpus Wats. Bibl. Index, 225. 1878; not 

 Hochst. 1842. 



Lotus humistratus Greene, Pittonia, 3: 139. 1890. 



No. 8390, collected June 12, near the summit of Mt. Tam- 

 alpais, Marin county, along the railroad in an open spot. The 

 plants are less pubescent than usual. Perhaps introduced from 

 the lowlands, but other species commonly found at lower eleva- 

 tions were also found on the mountain top. 



Parosela wheeleri Vail, Bull. Torn Club, 34: 17. 1897. 



No. 8236, collected May 11, at the base of the White moun- 

 tains opposite Laws, Inyo county, in gravel. Plentiful in that 

 part of Owen's valley, occurring as a low branching shrub about 

 three feet high, the bright violet-purple flowers making it one 

 of our handsomest shrubs. The original came from "Nevada, 

 Wheeler expedition, 1872." The determination is not positive, 

 but our plant has more in common with this species than with 

 any of the others. 



Astragalus bicristatus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 75. 

 1883. 

 No. 8319, collected May 23, in the foothills west of Bishop, 

 Inyo county, in coarse granite sand. In the origigal "corolla 

 ut yidetur alba," while in ours it is pale violet-red, the pods 

 mottled with red. The type came from the "San Bernardino 

 Mountains, S. E. California, in a canyon on the Mohave side." 



No. 8269, collected May 16, in Silver canyon in the White 

 mountains opposite Laws, Inyo county, in gravel on the floor of 

 the canyon, many stems in a clump from a woody root. Found 

 in flower only, and probably some other species, being different 

 in habit from no. 8319. 



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