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Astragalus CnAMyELEucE var. Panguicensis. 



This puzzling plant has the habit of the type and the 

 pods of some forms of A. amp/i/oxys ; pubescence almost 

 shaggy, very dense, of very fine and slender hairs fixed 

 by the base; nodes usually longer than the triangular, 

 hairy, green stipules, which are 2-3" long; stems pros- 

 trate , 2-6' long ; root woody and with many short branches ; 

 leaves 2-3' long, slender petiole longer than the rachis; 

 leaflets contiguous, 6-8 pairs, elliptical, 2-3" long, obtuse; 

 pods linear-lanceolate, i' long by 2-3" wide, short-acumin- 

 ate, very much obcompressed till cross-section is linear, 

 doubly sulcate throughout ventrally, ventral suture promi- 

 nent externally, not at all sulcate dorsally, i-celled, coriace- 

 ous and fleshy when young, finely and closely appressed- 

 pubescent; flowers light purple, 9" long; banner 4" longer 

 than the calyx and 1—2" longer than the keel; calyx nearly 

 cylindrical, but larger at the mouth, tube 4-5" long, i" 

 wide, subulate teeth i" long, calyx pubescent like the 

 leaves, but less densely so, green, nearly sessile; bracts 

 lanceolate hyaline, 2-3" long; flowers in heads 6-8, on 

 short peduncles, ascending; corolla like that of A. 

 C hamcel etice . No. 6002m and 6o23f, September 8, 1894, 

 Panguitch Lake, Utah, 8400° alt., in gravel. 



Astragalus Musiniensis. 



With the habit of A. Newberryi Gray, but allied to A. 

 cicadiB Jones. Densely cgespitose in small tufts, crown 

 thick with coarse petioles and large, glabrous, triangular, 

 nervose stipules, 4" long, which, with the petioles, form 

 heads at the crown; petioles stout, \' long, crowned by 

 1—3 lanceolate to elliptical-lanceolate leaflets, V or less 

 long; pubescence minute, dense and appressed through- 

 out; pods ovate, 9" long, 3-4" wide, with an incurved and 

 acute apex, very shortly-strigose pubescent, i-celled, 

 sulcate ventrally at base, cross-section nearly round. 



