276 PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



but there are specimens in a collection made on the Kooskooskee by 

 Rev. Mr. Spalding, which evidently connect them. [Published in 

 1863 in Gray's. Revision of Astragalus, Proceed. Amer. Acad. 6, p. 194.] 



3. Astragalus adsurgens, Pall. 



Hab. -On the Kooskooskee and Spokane Rivers, Washington Ter- 

 ritory. — Plant about two feet high, growing in tufts : considerably 

 taller than Douglasian specimens received from Sir William Hooker. 



4. Astragalus succumbens, Dough in Hook. 



Hab. On the Walla- Walla River, Oregon. — Whole plant grayish- 

 hirsute. Stem about a foot long, somewhat rigid. Leaflets 5 to 7 

 pairs, 4 to 6 lines long. Spikes oval, not elongated in fruit, about an 

 inch and a half long. Pods linear-oblong, falcate, smooth and shining, 

 transversely striate, almost completely two-celled by the deep intro- 

 flexion of the dorsal suture. 



5. Astragalus glareosus, Dough in Hook. 



Hab. Prairies of the Walla- Walla and Kooskooskee Rivers. — 

 Wholly resembles specimens of A. glareosus of Douglas received from 

 Sir William Hooker, and certainly the same as A. argophyllus of 

 Nuttall. 



6. Astragalus alpinus, Linn. 



Hab. On the Spokane and Kooskooskee Rivers, Washington Ter- 

 ritory. 



7. Astragalus sclerocarpus, Gray. 



Hab. On the Walla- Walla River, Oregon. — The specimens are in 

 fruit. The leaflets are 4 to 8 lines long, and scarcely more than half 



