Astragalus altus Woot. & Standl.

Atelophragma altum (Wooton & Standley) Rydb. Bull. Toney Club 55: 161. 1928.
Astragalus alius Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 136. 1913.
A perennial; stems several, slender, erect, sparingly strigose, branched, 4-6 dm. high; leaves 8-10 cm. long, ascending; stipules deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate; leaflets 21-29, elliptic to oblong, 8-10 mm. long, obtuse or acute, glabrous above, strigose beneath; peduncles 5-S cm. long; racemes 2-6 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; calyx yellowish, sparsely black-strigulose, 4 mm. long, the teeth deltoid, 1 mm. long; corolla ochroleucous or yellow, 9-10 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arched; wings nearly as long, the blade oblanceolate, with a reflexed auricle; keel-petals much shorter, the blade broadly obovate, rounded at the apex; pod black-strigulose, the stipe 6 mm. long, the body lance-oblong or ob-