Mr. Nuttall questions whether our plant may not be 
the Psoratea hedysaroides of Muhlenberg’s Catalogue; but 
there the flower is yellow. 
A hardy tall-growing herbaceous perennial. Stem brown, 
3-5 feet high; branches flutedly angular villous. Leaves 
ternate; leaflets ovately lanceolate, long-taper-pointed, 
slightly furred and glandularly dotted on both sides, 3-4 
inches long, about half as broad, two side-ones somewhat 
smaller; all when dry of a heavy yellowish green; common 
petiole shorter than the leaflets; lateral partial ones very 
short, central one about half an inch long or more; stipules 
small, linearly subulate, upright, shaggy. Racemes many, 
axillary, solitary, equal to the leaves or thereabouts, pe- 
duncle thickishly furred, twice as long as the spike or more; 
spike somewhat broken, closish; pedicles scatteredly de- 
tached in pairs or triplets? thickishly furred, rather shorter 
than the calyx, deflexed, with a single linearly subulate 
shaggy quickly falling bracte at the base of each pair or 
triplet: flowers small, purplish red, sweet. Calyx turbinately 
campanulate, not dotted, close-pressedly furred twice shorter 
than the corolla (10-nerved?), shallowly 2-lipped, equal, 
with five pointed teeth, 2 to the upper lip, 3 to the under. 
Petals all blunt, the two of the carina enclosed by the ale; 
(but we did not see the flowers while fresh). Germen oblong, 
shorter than the calyx, compressed, tapered at both ends 
(somewhat stalked?) papillary: style twice longer, smooth, 
bent upwards with an obtuse angle near the middle: stigma 
a small headed point. Stamens diadelphous; one filament 
very shallowly 9-cleft: anthers roundish, ovate, rather 
pointed. Pod (according to Mr. Nuttall) overtopping the 
calyx, one-seeded, black and extremely rough with tu- 
bercles. 
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NOTE. 
The following synonym may be added to the AsTRAGALUS caryocarpus 
of fol. 176, vol. 2 of the present work; ; 
Astragalus carnosus. Nuttall gen. 2.100; (non tamen Purshti speciem quan- 
dam Sopuore cui perperam ex D. Nuttall fructum ASTRAGALI carnosi 
attribuerat intelligentis). 
