Greene's Milkvetch

Pisophaca stictocarpa Rydberg, sp. nov
A cespitose perennial; stems many, decumbent, flexuose, much branched, grayish-strigose, about 3 dm. long, leaves spreading, 4-8 cm. long, the rachis strigose; stipules deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, acuminate; leaflets 15-25, oblong or cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, pilose on both sides, spaiingly so above; peduncles 4—6 cm. long; racemes 4-10 cm. long, many -flowered ; bracts subulate, 2 mm. long, longer than the pedicels; calyx pilose, the tube 3-4 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla puiple, 8-10 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arched; wings shorter, the blade obliquely oblanceolate, somewhat falcate, with a large basal auiicle; keel-petals shorter, the blade broadly lunate, almost semi-orbiculai ; pod sessile, short-villous, mottled, obliquely ovoid, 1.5-2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 6 mm. thick, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, membranous.
Type collected on hills at Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 28, 1897, Heller, 3606 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Type locality and Sandia Mountains, New Mexico.

Pisophaca greenei (A. Gray) Rydberg
Astragalus Greenei A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 16: 105. 1880. Astragalus gracilentus Greenei M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 8: 14. 1S98.
A cespitose perennial; stems several, decumbent at least at the base, flexuose, branched, grayish-strigose; leaves ascending, 4-7 cm. long, the rachis strigose; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long; leaflets oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, pilose on both sides or glabrate above, rounded oi retuse at the apex; peduncles 5-10 cm. long; raceme i-5 cm. long; bracts subulate, 2 mm. long; calyx white-pilose with rather loose hairs, the tube 3.5-4 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 1.5-2 mm. long; corolla white, sometimes tinged with purple; banner 10-12 mm. long, obovate; wings nearly as long, the blade broadly oblanceolate, with a reflexed auricle; keel-petals much shorter, the blade broadly lunate; pod obovoid, strigulose, 1.5-2 cm. long, 10-13 mm. wide, 10-11 mm. thick, acutish at each end.
Type locality: Foothills of Mogollon Mountains. New Mexico. Distribution: New Mexico and northwestern Texas.