Egg Milkvetch

Phaca oophora (S. Wats.) Rydberg
Astragalus oophorus S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 73. 1871. Tragacanlha oophora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 947. 1891.
Perennial, somewhat cespitose; stems 3-5 dm. high, glabrous, striate, decumbent at the base; leaves 5-10 cm. long; stipules deltoid, distinct, acuminate, about 5 mm. long; leaflets 9-17, oblong-elliptic, 15-20 mm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, minutely mucronate, glabrous; peduncles about 5 cm. long; racemes short, 61 0-flowered ; calyx-tube campanulate, 5 mm. long, glabrous, the lobes subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous, 15 mm. long; banner obovate, gradually tapering below; wings somewhat shorter, the blade oblong-lunate, about equaling the claw, with a rounded basal auricle; keel-petals similar but broadei and rounded at the apex; pod glabrous, the stipe 5 mm. long, the body ellipsoid, 4-5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, mottled (?).
ypE locality: Reese River Pass of the Shoshone Mountains, Nevada.
istribution: Eastern Nevada.

Phaca jucunda Jcpson & Rydberg, sp. nov
Perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems decumbent at the base, glabrous, 2—4 dm. high, striate; leaves ascending, 10-15 cm. long, the rachis glabrous; stipules broadly deltoid, 5-8 mm. long; leaflets 11-19, broadly oval or obovate, mostly retuse at the apex, glabrous on both sides, 5-20 mm. long, 4-10 mm. wide; peduncles 7-15 cm. long, glabrous; racemes 3-7 cm. long; bracts subulate, 3 mm. long, nearly equaling the pedicels; calyx glabrous, the tube campanulate, 5 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, 4 mm. long; corolla purple, at least the banner; banner obovate, 15-18 mm. long, moderately arcuate; wings 13-15 mm. long, the blade oblanceolate, fully as long as the claw, rounded at the apex, with a large reflexed auricle; keel-petals 12-13 mm. long, the blade broadly lunate, rounded at the apex; pod ellipsoid, more or less mottled, about 4 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, acutish at each end, the stipe a little exceeding the calyxtube.
Type collected on Telescope Peak, Panamint Mountains, California, 1917, W. L. Jcpson. Distribution: Eastern California and western Nevada.