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tips, straight or nearly so, apex bent in gentle curve to 

 90°, obtuse; pods i' long, 2" wide, sulcate dorsally, nar- 

 rowly oblong, shortly acuminate, very much resembling 

 those of Oxytropis Laniherii ; peduncles 1—12° long, sul- 

 cate, rather slender. 



Astragalus Francisquitensis. Brandegee, San 

 Francisquito, Lower California, October 18, 1891. Per- 

 ennial, with many delicate stems, ascending, with the habit 

 of A. leftaleus, but seeming near to A. Nuttallianiis, 

 nearly glabrous throughout; nodes 2-3' long; stipules 

 subulate, not united, adnate, 2" long; leaflets 8-11 pairs, 

 obovate-oblong to elliptical, emarginate, delicate, finely 

 petiolulate; proper petiole 6-9" long; leaves 4' long; pe- 

 duncles filiform, 6' long, subcapitately 10-15 flowered; 

 pedicels slender, 5^" long, about equaled by the tri- 

 angular bracts; calyx campanulate-cylindric, tube i^" 

 long by y^" wide, subulate teeth about half the tube, tube 

 hyaline, nigrescent; banner blade 2V' long, oblong, as- 

 cending 45°, the curve beginning beyond the calyx tips, 

 sides reflexed, ^" wide; wings linear, straight, |" wide, 

 just about as long as banner, not at all arched (thus re- 

 sembling those of A. arietiniis), i^" longer than keel; 

 keel short, very obtuse and rounded; pods linear-oblong, 

 6" long b}^ 1-I2 ' wide, obtuse, sessile, completeh" 2-celled, 

 glabrous, not sulcate, chartaceous. 



Astragalus metaniis. Hanson's Ranch, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, near the border, Brandegee, April 18, 1885. Has 

 the habit of A. Inyoensis. Prostrate from a perennial 

 root, 2-3° long; stems rather stout and sulcate, minutely 

 pubescent throughout with fine appressed hairs, fixed by 

 the base, nodes about 3' long, rather flexuous; stipules 

 very small, green, reflexed, i" long, adnate, not connate; 

 leaves 4-7^ long; proper petiole i' long on the lower 

 leaves, but none on the upper ones ; leaflets linear-lanceo- 



