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Astragalus ere?nicics Sheldon, Death Valley Rep., was 

 based on a very imperfect and small specimen of A. Coiil- 

 teri var. Fremonti. 



Astragalus Coulteri var. Fremonti (T. & G. Pac. 

 R. R. Rep. 4, 80). From a large amount of material I 

 find transitions between this and A. Coulleri, .hut find 

 that many specimens referred to this are really only forms 

 of A . lentiginoses, and not truly referable to the type of 

 A . Fremonti. 



Astragalus No. 1961, Coville, Death Valley Rep. 277, 

 is Sophora stenophylla. 



xistragalus amfhioxys Sheldon (not Gray) in Coville, 

 Death Valley Rep. 8'5, Nos. 496 and 543 is A. leucolobus 

 Jones, which is not the same as A . lectulus Watson. 



Astragalus Purshii Sheldon (not Hooker), Death 

 Valley Rep. 87, No. 119. 6, from the Tejon Mountains, 

 California, is also:/!, leucolobus Jones. Prinp-le's, from 

 the same region, May 13, 1882, is the same. A. leucolo- 

 bus is well marked by the roundish, long-villous nubescent 

 leaflets; densely c^spitose habit; large lanceolate, hyaline 

 bracts, 2" long; usually black-hairy calyx (the pods are 

 those of A. Purshii); hairy stipules; purple flowers, 

 with banner having a striate purple-veined white spot; 

 peduncles 2 to 6' long, erect or spreading, always capi- 

 tately 6 to 12 flowered, and flowers ascending. 



Astragalus cibarius Sheldon. This well marked spe- 

 cies was fully described by me in my Contributions, No. 

 3, 291, and I provisionally referred it to ^. glareosus, but 

 indicated its variance from that species, preferring to do 

 that rather than to make a possible synonym. Mr. Shel- 

 don, however, with very little material to work on and 

 without exercising the usual courtesy in such cases, pub- 

 lishes it without even mentioning the fact that it had been 

 previously and 'fully described by me. It is possible. 



