96 BOTANY. 



Astragalus Parryi, Gray (Am. Journ. Sci 2d ser. xxxiii, 410).— Simi- 

 lar in habit, but villous throughout with loose spreading hairs; stems 

 decumbent : leaflets obovate to oblong, often retuse and usually small : 

 calyx-teeth large and about equalling the tube : pods narrower, an inch long 

 and curved, more compressed, and nearly 2- celled by the depression of the 

 sutures.— Colorado to Northwestern Texas; Wolf (237), but the locality 

 not given. 



Astragalus iodanthus, Watson (Bot. King's Expl 70).— Northern 

 Nevada and Utah. Flowering specimens collected in Canon de Chelli (212) 

 (also by Dr. Coulter, on Hayden's Survey, in Clear Creek Canon) are per- 

 haps referable to this species, though the corolla is nearly white. 



Astragalus Utahensis, Torr. & Gray (Pacif. R. Rep. ii, 120). — Utah 

 to Nevada; near Salt Lake, 1872. 



Astragalus lonchocarpus, Torr. (Pacif. R. Rep. iv, 80). — Peren- 

 nial, erect, slender, puberulent or glabrate, a foot high or more : leaflets 4 

 pairs or fewer, often only a terminal inarticulated one, linear, about an inch 

 long : flowers ochroleucous, 6 to 8 lines long, spreading in a loose long- 

 pedunculate raceme : calyx-teeth short : pods membi'anous, linear, attenuate 

 at each end and long-stipitate, an inch and a half long, straight, glabrous, 

 reflexed, terete or obcom pressed, 1 -celled, the sutures usually somewhat 

 impressed. — Colorado to New Mexico and Utah; Santa Fe" (18). 



Astragalus pectinatus, Dougl. (Hook. Fl. i, 149). — Perennial, puber- 

 ulent or glabrate, erect and stout, a foot high or more : leaflets 5 to 8 

 pairs, not jointed upon the rhachis, narrowly linear, an inch or two long : 

 flowers large, spreading in a loose pedunculate raceme, ochroleucous : pods 

 thick-cartilaginous, somewhat pubescent, ovate or oblong, turgid, sessile, 

 half an inch long, reflexed, 1-celled, with thick prominent sutures. — From 

 the Saskatchewan to Colorado and Oregon ; at Kit Carson, Colo., Wolf 

 (234). 



Astragalus Fendleri, Gray (PI. Wright, ii, 44). — Perennial, puber- 

 ulent, slender, erect or decumbent, a foot high or more : leaflets 7 to 12 

 pairs, oblong to linear, obtuse, about half an inch long : flowers purple, 

 4 or 5 lines long, spreading in loose long-pedunculate racemes : calyx-tube 

 and teeth short : pods coriaceous, slightly pubescent or glabrate, broadly 



