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Astragalus Batesii, n. sp. — Stems few to several, spreading from 

 the summit of a slender woody taproot, only 1-4 cm. long, very 

 leafy; leaves pinnate, 5-9 cm. long including the slender petiole; 

 leaflets mostly 7-1 1, narrowly oblong, obtuse, strigose-canescent, 

 greenish and becoming glabrate above: flowers in terminal, capitate, 

 few-several-flowered racemes on very slender peduncles which in 

 fruit equal or exceed the leaves; bracts lance-linear, silky, shorter 

 than the silky calyx : calyx lobes linear, as long as the tube : corolla 

 pale violet, 6-8 mm. long, exceeding the calyx, turning somewhat 

 yellowish with age: pod strictly 1 -celled, with straight keel except 

 the tip, narrowly oblong, tapering to the acuminate or cuspidate 

 tip, with short silky appressed pubescence, 12-15 mm. long, when 

 mature lightly transverse rugose. 



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Rev. J. M. Bates, of Red Cloud, Neb., for many years a careful student 

 of his local flora, contributes the fine specimens upon which this description 

 is based. Having carefully studied the plant in the field and being familiar 

 with the species of Astragalus of his range, he submitted this as probably 

 different from any of the described species. In this opinion I must concur, and 

 I therefore take this opportunity to dedicate the species to its discoverer. The 



guished 



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strictly 1 -celled pod in which the dorsal suture is not at all impressed. The 

 type is deposited in the Rocky Mountain Herbarium under the collector's no. 



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Mertensia campanulata, n. sp. — Glabrous throughout, even 

 to the calyx lobes: root thick and semi-fleshy, giving rise to few 

 or solitary erect stems: stems moderately leafy, pale below: 

 root leaves oblong, tapering to both ends, obtusish at apex, cuneate 

 at base, the blade 8-12 cm. long, on petioles usually longer than 

 the blade: stem leaves oblanceolate, tapering to a margined base, the 

 middle ones the largest but these smaller than the root leaves, the 

 uppermost very much reduced: panicle rather small and open, 

 short-peduncled, 1-3 slender accessory peduncles from the upper- 

 most leaves: calyx campanulate, about 5 mm. long, the broadly 

 triangular obtusish lobes not more than one-fourth as long as the 

 tube: corolla deep blue, beautifully veined with brown, 18-20 mm. 

 long, tubular, the tube proper about half of it; the relatively long 



