i)G 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 iodantiius, Watson (Bot. King's Expl. 70). — Northern 

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

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

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



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

 to Nevada; near Salt Lake, 1872. 



Astragalus lonctiocarpus, 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 membranous, linear, attenuate 

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

 n Hexed, terete or obcompressed, 1-celled, the sutures usually somewhat 

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



Astragalus pectinatus, Dougl. (Hook. Fl. i, 140). — 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, retlexed, 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 



