24 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
Proe. Am. Acad., 7, p. 197. Perennial, cinereous with minute appressed 
ubescence, 0 stems rather stout, 4/-18’ high, ascending 
or decumbent, aren as well as the peduncles; stipules scarious, 
mostl d at base; leaflets 10 pairs, 6-9” long, oblong, or linear- 
y unite 
oblong; peduncles le stout, strict, strongly sulcate, often nearly 
equaling the leaves; spike dense, at length oblong or cylindrical; 
flowers purplish, medium-sized, ascending ; calyx-tube rather long, 
light or dark hairs; pod coriaceous, pubescent, sessile, ascending, 
ovate-oblong, 4//-5” long, straight, usually ie ss with 
‘a dorsal suleus and two- celled by ey intruded dorsal suture, many- 
ie —Hall & Harbour, 1385; Canby ; righ met jee che Plains of 
the Platte, Coulter. Wet ie ucbaiis Valley, Redfield. 
ASTRAGALUS HYPOGLOTTIS, L. Gray’s Ree. l. ¢., p. 197. Perennial, 
with a rather loose pubescence; stems 6/-2° lon ng, slender, diftsely 
procumbent or ascending; stipules eleven and more or less 
sheathing; leaflets 7-10 pairs, oblong, obtuse or retuse; hoa few 
to many-tlowered; corolla violet, 4/ long; legume ovate- trian gular, 
softly, silky-villous with white hair rs, very shortly stipitate an 
seeded.—Hall & Harbour, 13 9; Canby; B. H. Smith; Porter; 
Brandegee. Common on the plains and in the mountains, Coulter. 
LUS BRANDEGEI, Porter (n. sp.) Canescent with edie: 
appressed hairs; branchi ing from a aomaiciet woody base, branches 
surgent, 6’ high; leaflets in 5 rather distant pairs, linear, sidnas, rs 
ene glabrous above, 6-8” long 5 atipulen jomeaiets, acuminate, 
teeth ; Caerolls white o or exenme eolor, tin pit with purple, banuur exceed- 
ing the keel, reflexed ; pod hairy, turgid, obovoid, with a shallow dorsal 
su uleus, 4" long , coriaceous, abruptly -pointed, short- “stipitate, straight, 
ascending, pus “the length of the slender pedicel, 2-celled or nearly 
so, man e 
‘his new "Dovindien weet belongs to Section 9, Micranthi, of Gray’s 
Revision, is allied to A. atratus, Watso n. Ihave named it in honor of the 
zealous collector from zoho it was received.—Banks of the Arkansas, 
near Canon City, 7. S. Brandegee, pry 26, 1873. 
ASTRAGALUS DrumMonpnu. Dougl. Gr. Rev. l. ¢., p. 200. Perennial, 
softly-villous; stem erect, 19°-2° high, stout, suleate, very leafy; 
leaflets 10-15 pairs, oblong and linear oblong, obtuse, narrowed ¢ 
the base; stipules ee ag oe free, ovate, acuminate; peduncles longer 
than the leaves, erec spikes he Bs ered; flowers rather larg 
white or ochroleicous with the point of the keel purple-tinged, pendulous 
<n somewhat secund; calyx-teeth subulate, shorter than the tube, 
cely gibbous at base, pilose with blackish hairs; pod very smooth, 
stipitate, exserted from the ealyx, penenen linear-oblong, coriaceous, 
t, terete-biventricose, with a narrow, very deep sule ssn Compe 
or Heodipletcly divided by the titresien of the dorsal sutur all & 
Harbour, 124. Near Colorado Springs, Porter. Wet M ouabain in Valley, 
= ben eg Plains near Denver, Coulter. Ula, Wet Mountain Valley, 
field 
ASTRAGALUS SCOPULORUM, Porter (n. ‘P-) Pubescent with ap rae 
hairs; stems ascending, about Fe nig angled, branchin 
(especially the lower ones) so 
ewhat coh erent: leaflets ees ok a 
obovate or oblong, abruptly sees: being glabrous above; peduncles : 
jAeebceds fn Eee eh nee oa SD 
Pier she es 
pedeals 
