674 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



tip, the cross-section is nearly didymous or very often with 

 the re-entering angle on the dorsal side absent, pods i-ii' 

 long and about 8" wide, 3-5 in a very loose, subcapitate 

 raceme which is shorter than the leaves; the flowers are 

 like those of the type. This plant grows on flat clay 

 land, in Sanpete valley, at about 6000 ft. altitude. It 

 grows in clumps with nearly prostrate stems 4-8' long. 

 This may prove to be a mere form not worthy of varietal 

 rank. 



Astragalus lentiginosus var. nigricalycis. Bakers- 

 field, Kern County, California, Miss Eastwood, March 

 24, 1893. Densely short- woolly -pubescent throughout, 

 or velvety, except the less pubescent older leaves and 

 mature pods; calyx densely black-hairy; leaflets obovate 

 to oblanceolate, emarginate to truncate, 5— 9 pairs; petioles 

 and peduncles various; stipules triangular, small, re- 

 flexed; flowers wh'ite, 6" long, in heads in flower and in 

 short spikes in fruit; calyx campanulate to short-cylin- 

 dric, tube ii"-2" long, i" wide, scarcely gibbous at base, 

 teeth half the tube or less, subulate to triangular, cal3^x 

 sessile or nearly so; bracts ovate, i" long; banner elong- 

 ated, oblong, 3-4" long, ascending 45-60° in gentle curve 

 remote from calyx tips, sides reflexed h" wide most in the 

 middle; wings narrowly oblong, nearly straight, a trifle 

 longer than the keel; keel straight, apex gently arched to 

 90° in a uniform curve from apex to end of curve, shortly 

 acute, 2-3" shorter than banner; pods i' long, oval to 

 ovate, always more or less lunate, chartaceous, mottled, 

 tip short-triangular to short-acuminate, always incurved, 

 2-celled, sulcate ventrally; pods 3-7, flowers 10-15; per- 

 ennial with ascending stems, 1-2° high. Also collected 

 at Alcalde, California, May, 1881, Brandegee. Type in 

 the California Academy of Sciences Herbarium, as well 

 as my own. 



