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emarginate leaflets, but otherwise the same. Type in 

 National Herbarium. 



To this species I refer with much doubt Palmer's spec- 

 imen from Lagoon Head, Lower California, March 6-15, 

 1889. Stems erect; petioles absent; leaves and the stiff 

 long peduncles ascending; whole plant nearly glabrous; 

 stipules minute, adnate, not connate; spikes 2-4' long; 

 peduncles floriferous on the upper third; flowers loosely 

 spicate- racemose, almost sessile, the pedicels being half 

 the short ovate bracts; calyx broadly campanulate, tube 

 i'' long and wide, triangular teeth half as long; flowers 

 4'" long, purple; keel large, blade 3'^ long, erect portion 

 as long as the horizontal part and bent to it at an angle of 

 90" ; banner ascending sharply to 45° and remote from 

 calyx lobes, sides reflexed; wings 3'' long, lanceolate, 

 arched 30°, a trifle longer than the keel which is fully i" 

 shorter than the banner; pods obliquely ovate -oblong, 

 9'^ long, 6" wide, sessile, rounded at base, papery, sulcate 

 ventrally, shortly acute, circular in cross -section, nearly 

 smooth, ascending. Should this prove to be a new spe- 

 cies, as it is most likely to be, it may be Q.2l}\<^A Astragalus 

 piscimcs. 



Astragalus Douglasii var. glaberrimus. Los Hu- 

 evelos, Lower California, 1889, Brandegee; also at San 

 Fernando. Plants i-i}4° high, rather bushy, branched 

 at base, perennial, whole plant glabrous; leaflets about 7 

 pairs, linear-lanceolate and very sharp, 6-8" long and i" 

 wide, distant, all but the very uppermost petioled; ra- 

 cemes very lax, 4-5' long including the rachis, floriferous 

 on the upper two-thirds; flowers 6-10; pods half -oval, 

 shortly-flat-triangular beaked, i-i^'' long, round in cross- 

 section, deflexed; otherwise as in A. Douglasii. Type 

 in the California Academy Herbarium. 



Astragalus Haydenianus Gray. From a large amount 



