SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 29 
pubescent, teeth 3 times shorter than the tube; pod cylindric, 8-11’ 
ong, 2” broa ad, puberulent, thinly ah ii straight or sub-ineurved ; 
stipe very short but evident. —Common at middle elevations. Hall & 
Harbour, Pe ae Smith; Canby ; Porter: B. H. Smith ; Brandegee ; 
Meehan ; Coul 
atiaitte s olafestiape pep te Gr. Rev. l. ¢, p. 226. (A. nigrescens, 
Gr.) Perennial, somewhat glabrous; owas 1° high, numerous, ascending 
branched ; stipules dare: colored, the lower ones at least t sheathing ; 
“soph 6-10 pairs, 3-6” long, linear or narrowly pean acute or ob- 
tuse; peduncles not exceeding the leaves, loosely few- po hig flow- 
ers chivslencous, tinged with purple, small, 2-3” long, tl mpanu- 
late calyx-tube rather longer than the setaceous teeth, and Lae. equa- 
ling the stipe; pod vetch-shaped, flattened or compr ressed, § straight, mar- 
gined by the nerve-like sutures, 4-6” long, reflexed, 1-c celled, 2—4-seeded. 
aHalt & Harbour, 115. South Park, Porter. Sierra Madre Range, 
oul 
ASTRAGALUS CAMPESTRIS, Gr. Rev. l. ¢., p. 229. Perennial, mi- 
nutely pubescent or glabrate; stems 3/—15/ high, numerous, ascend- 
ing, Slender, simple ; stipules, at least the lower ones, membranous and 
sheathing, large, acuminate; leaflets 5-9 pairs, 3-15” long, linear, 
te Te lanceolate or oblong, usually acute ; peduncles slender, exceeding 
o 
row in saa tip; d 6/12" long, TEL ag dot stipitate, sub- 
puberalent, subeompressed, oblong-linear, nearly straight, valves sub- 
turgid, the e pedi cels at length r eflexed, 1-celled, 10-15-ovuled.—Meehan, 
te om and on the Up per Arkansas, Porter. Mount Lincoln, Coulter, 
ASTRAGALUS ‘DECUMBENS, Gr. Rev. l.c., p. 229. pe ae de- 
oldie: Nutt. )—Cinereous or silky-pubescent; stems diffuse or ascend- 
ing, 6’-10’ high; petioles sometimes somewhat flattened, mostly with 
7-13 linear-lanceolate, acute leaflets; racemes 5-10- flowered ; ; calyx-teeth 
attenuate, a little shorter than the tube; corolla 4-43” long, ochro- 
leucous or purplis sh; keel with a short, inflexed tip; pod broad-linear, 
Straight or falcate, about 1/ long, nae: puberulent.—Hall & Harbour, 
14: aho Springs, Redyield. 
ne AGALUS DIVERSIFOLIUS, Gr. ev. L. . 230... Ashy-strig- 
ose; stems diffuse, decumbent, elongated, reer “yo high ; petioles 
Sore fiettened, 1-5 foliolate ; terminal leaflet or simple leaf linear, 
elongated, 1/2’, attenuated at "each end; peduncle 1—5-flowered ; calyx. 
1 h 
faleate-incurved ; any oblong-linear, straight or subfalcate, #’ long, 
canescent-puberulent.—“ Gra eves Bice ins of Colorado on both sides of 
the Rocky Maniiteind ” Gray's R 
ASTRAGALUS JUNCEUS, Gr. pons ce , p. 230. Perennial, minutely 
pubescent or subglabrous ; stems coaalty solitary, erect, paniealately- 
branched, slender ; stipules small ; petioles slender, times 
usually naked or with 1-5 pairs of linear leaflets; pehunees longer ie 
€ leaves, 3-7-flowered; flowers 4” long, distant, ochroleucous or ting 
with violet; calyx. teeth usually small and obtuse, shorter than the cam- 
panulate tube ; od 1/-1}’ long, as as in the last species, with which it is 
ny identical. —‘‘On the head-waters of the Colorado of the West, 
ha 
RAGALUS SIMPLICIFOLIUS, Gr. ev. l. ¢ 231. (Phaca sim- - 
Dlieifoie, Nutt.) Perennial, czespitose, in dense, Gishiontd mats ; pepe 3 
4-5" Jong, hoary with an appressed silky pubescence, simple, linear 
