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fruit, 1/ long, on short peduncles or sessile on the ends of the leafy 
branches bracts obovate, apiculate, about the length of the yellow 
pee calyx deeply clett, teeth setaceous, plumos ose.—Purga tory River, 
Dr. —Closely allied to D. aurea, from which it differs in its diffusely 
spre adin slender respi aepetheny branched and leafy to the spikes, 
which are ‘smaller and much less det 
DALEA JAMESII, eon. Stems several from one root, 4’-9' high, 
somewhat woody at the base; whole plant silky -pubescent leaves pal- 
mately tri- foliolate, not dotted with glands; leaflets obo ovate, very obtuse; 
stipules setaceous, erect, rigid, 4’ long; petioles sis - long; spikes 
oblong, sessile, dense and broad, Bas 1’ long; bracts ovate, acuminate, 
longer than the calyx; calyx deeply cleft, segments slliddoe plumose, 
longer or shorter than the vexillum; flowers golden-yellow.—Caion 
City, Bra = egee 
PET TEMON VIOLACEUS, Mx.—B. H. Smith. Colorado te 
Pobter: Plains of the Piatte, not as common as the fo HNowing, Coulter 
PETALO eet cANDIDUS, Mx.—Common on the plains. Dr. Smith. 1 
Coulter ; Por 
ETAL LOSTEMON MACROSTACHYUsS, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lyc., 2, p. 176. 
d uppe 
verdigris-green in drying; spike cylindrical, elongated, 6 and more 
when old, the rachis villous; bracts lanceolate, as long as the flower; 
ean silky- -villous, teeth lanceolate; vexillam cordate; petals linear- 
oblong, narrowed at the base and nearly white; —— ’inclosed i in t 
aa calyx, gibbous, compressed, hairy. —Hal » Harbour, 105. 
AMORPHA FRUTICOSA, L.—On the plains, shire the Platte, ‘Couiter: 
Pueblo County, Redfield. : 
cia CANESCENS, Nutt.—Plains, Porter. 
RoprnrA Neo-MEXxIcana, Gr. Pl. Thurb., p. 314. Shrub 4°-6° high; 
sipalar penetcne subreecurv ed, sharp and ‘stout : leatiets elliptical or 
oblong, 4/~1/ long; peduncles and the short, crowded racemes 
with pteaight glanduliferous hairs; calyx fin ely hispid, teeth subulate- 
lanceolate; ; corolla rose-color ; pods glandular-hispid. Resembles in its 
flowers R. viscosa. i River, Huerfano County, Greens. 
tie AGALUS 8s, Ker—Hall & Harbour, 132 and 133. 
Brandegee. On the iain andl} in South Park, Porter. 
ASTRAGALUS MExicanus, A. DC. 
ASTRAGALUS PLATTENSIS, Nutt. We have seen no specimens of 
this nor of the preceding species from Colorado, but from the range 
ascribed to them by Dr. Gray in his Revision, Proe. Am. Auk vol. 6, p. 
193, they donbtles exist there. 
AgruaciLue we Lissmus, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lyc., 2, p. 178. tagear emi 
subacaulescent phinig rie a soft silky- whee: often yellow, pu 
cen 
3 ong, turgid, ’ 
very smooth, subdidymons, ovary also glabrous; stipules lanceolate, 
, Oy" tone esd the petiole ; leaflets ae 14 pairs, pid eam, or 
ASTRAGAL US aki Messe the base of the foot-hills and 
along aba ehdiars of the es s. B. H. Smith; Porter; Brandegee. 
ASTRAGALUS ADSURGENS, Pall. (A. striatus, Nutt.) Gray's Rev. 
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