CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. 66l 



Astragalus Bernardinus. Moronyo King Mine, east 

 side of San Bernardino Mountains, California, 5000° alt., 

 June 16, 1894, Parish. Type in National Herbarium. 



This is closely allied to A. tricarinatws Gray, having 

 the same rushlike round, rather tortuous stems, ver}^ similar 

 pods, and peculiar pubescence of short, flat, closely ap- 

 pressed hairs fixed by the base, but it differs in being 

 only 6' high ; stems flexuous and ascending; nodes i' apart 

 or less; stipules triangular, green, adnate, free, evident; 

 leaves 2-3' long, with rachis like stems but smaller, green, 

 tapering upward, arcuate, leaflets only ashy and equally 

 so on both sides, flat, thickish, about 4 pairs, smaller to- 

 ward tip of rachis, with very weak petiolules, distant, 

 narrowly oblong, 6" long by i/^" wide, obtuse but not 

 emarginate, equally rounded at both ends; peduncles 

 proper only i' or less long, with rachis 3-4' longer and 

 racemosely flowered; flowers 6-10, reflexed; pods linear 

 and narrowing below, apiculate, i' long, i,^" wide at the 

 end, Yo" wide at base, smooth, triquetrous, the back being 

 a little narrower than the two sides and shallow sulcate, 

 the sides a little concave, ventral angle acute, the others 

 obtuse, completely 2-celled, cross-section Y-shaped, very 

 finely netted, jointed at base, on a stipe nearly as long as 

 calyx tube; calyx tube campanulate, i" long; teeth half 

 as long, triangular; flowers not seen. Perennial, with 

 many stems from a thick erect root. 



Astragalus reventoides. Tweedy, No. 7, dry sage- 

 brush areas. Grasshopper Creek, Beaver Head County, 

 Montana, 5000° alt., August, 1888. This would pass for 

 a broad leaved form of A. reventus were not the pod 

 2-celled or nearly so. Perennial, erect, stems short, 6' 

 long or less; leaves silvery on both sides with short fine 

 appressed hairs fixed near the middle, 6' long or less, 

 stiff, rachis stout, equaling the petiole; leaflets oval to 



