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a line wide, deciduous in old plants, leaving the long persistent curved 

 petioles. Pods coriaceous, tumid, tapering at the base into a stipe 

 which is nearly an inch in length. [The above is the name adopted 

 in the Revision of Astragalus, above cited, for the Phacapodocarpa of 

 Hooker's Flora.] 



8. Astragalus Purshii, Dougl. in Hook. 



Hab. Dry prairies on the Upper Columbia, Washington Terri- 

 tory. — Pods about an inch long and half an inch broad, and so thickly 

 covered with yellowish-white hairs as to appear like little balls of 

 wool. 



9. Astragalus Menziesii, Gray, Rev. Astray. 



Hab. Hills near the sea-coast, Bay of San Francisco, California.— 

 Stem about a foot long, Leaflets oblong and linear-oblong, mostly 

 emarginate, half an inch long. Lower stipules partly united. Flowers 

 erect. Calyx-teeth about one-third the length of the tube. Legume 

 nearly an inch and a half long and three-fourths of an inch wide, 

 slightly reticulated. [The above is the name adopted in the Revision 

 of Astragalus, above cited, 1863, for the Phaca densifolia of Smith, 

 and P. Nuttallii, Torr. & Gray, Fl.] 



10. Astragalus leucophtllus, Torr. & Gray. 



Hab. Bay of San Francisco, and lower part of the Sacramento, 

 California.— Stipules triangular-subulate from a broad base. Legumes 

 ovate, inflated, membranaceous, nearly two inches long, abrupt at the 

 base and supported on a slender stipe of nearly its own length. The 

 pubescence almost disappears from the leaves in the old plant. 



11. Astragalus collinus, Dougl. in Hook. 



Hab. On the Kooskooskee River; in fruit. — A rare species; for 

 the characters of which Gray's revision of the genus may be re- 

 ferred to. 



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