Astragalus. LEGTJMINOS.E. \, 53 



above : raceme loosely few-flowered : calyx-teeth about half the length of the cam- 

 panulate tube (corolla small and white?): pod two thirds of an inch long, 2 lines 

 wide above the middle, thence tapering gradually into the stipe, which is a quartet 

 of an inch long and thrice the length of the calyx. — Homalobus multiflorus, Torr. 

 in Pacif. E. Eep. vii. 10, not of Torr. & Gray, El. 



Hillsides, Santa Barbara Co. ; Santa Inez {Dr. AiUisell), Ojai, Dr. G. L. Goodalc. 



A. HTJLTIFLORUS, Gray (the Homalobus dispar & nigrescens, Xutt., & //. multiflorus, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl.), is not known west of the E. Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, nor south of Oregon. It 

 has white flowers not over 2 lines long, and pods half an inch long, on a stipe not exceeding 

 the calyx. 



32. A. porrectus, Watson. Almost glabrous, a foot or two high : stipules 

 rather Luge, nearly scarious, the lower united: leaflets 7 to 11, thickish, broadly 

 obovate, about half an inch long: racemes virgate, long-peduncled, loosely many- 

 flowered : pedicels very short, spreading : calyx-teeth slender-subulate, a little 

 shorter than the campanulato tube: corolla "yellow" (apparently cream-color), 

 narrow, half an inch long: pod half an inch or so in length, 2 lines wide, dorsally 

 convex and ventrally almost straight, nearly erect upon an ascending pedicel; the 

 stipe 2 lines long and barely exceeding the calyx-teeth. — l!<>t. Bang Exp. 7-\ 



Trinity Mountains, X. W. Nevada, at 5,000 feet, Watson,. Probably to be found within the 

 borders of the State. 



-i- -s- Pod liro-r, II, d ('.// stroitfi intrusion of the dorsal suture), turgid; the cross 

 section hroadhj obcordateli/ 2-lobed, coriaceous, glabrous : hnjlrts 7 to 12 /,<tirs. 



33. A. arrectus, 1 rray. A foot or more high, minutely pubescent or glabrate : 

 stipules distincl : leaflets from linear to oblong, retuse (a third to two thirds of an 

 inch long): peduncles usually elongated, racemosely 9 — 20-flowered : calyx-teeth 

 much shorter than the tube: corolla yellowish-whit': pod narrowly oblong, 

 straight, rather acute at both ends, upright on the ascending stipe which is fully 

 twice the length of the calyx. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 289 ; Watson, Bofe King 

 Exp. 69. 



Foot-hills of Nevada (Battle Mountain, Watson), and from S. Utah to Idaho. Not yet found 



w;\ near tin- borders of California, but to be expected. Flowers two thirds of an inch Long. Pod 

 fr that to an inch in length. 



34. A. Bolanderi, < iray. A span or two high: stipules scarious and unite, 1 

 on the side of the stem opposite the petiole: leaflets oblong-linear or narrowh ob- 

 long, grayish with soft pubescence (a third to half an inch long): peduncles not 



exc ling the leaf, almost capitately 6— 12- flowered : calyx teeth slender-subulate, 



a little shorter than the tube: corolla white with a tinge of purple : pod ovate, m 

 curved, transversely veiny, less than an inch long, abruptly recurved or reflexed on 

 the conspicuous ascending stipe. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 337. 



Gravelly soil, in the Sierra Nevada at 6,000 reet and upwards, Mariposa Co. (2? , £ idges, 



ki\), to Si. Flowers half an inch long. 



* * Pod sessili in /In calyx (or sometimes on •/ short included stipe) and in sin much 

 exceeding it, except in tin last species. 



+- Sinus ilmiiintid, ,it least a span <>r two in length. 



++ Flotoers about an inch long, few and lo< 



•">■">. A. nudus, Watson. A foot or two high, cinereous with minute appn 

 pubescence or glabrate : stems branching and flexuous, slender : petioles and angled 

 or flattish rhachis rigid, elongated, bearing n few scattered linear leaflets (varying 

 from 4 to 8 lines long): peduncles elongated, S 8=-flowered: calyx cylindma 

 dark pubescent ; the lanceolate teeth nol hall' 1 he length of the tube : corolla violet 

 purple, narrow: pod turgid-oval, glabrous, ascending, rather Heshy. when mature 



