Astragalus trichopodus var. phoxus (M. E. Jones) Barneby

Homalobus gaviotus (Elmer) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 50: 272. 1923.
Astragalus Antiselli phoxus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 65. 1902. .
Astragalus gaviotus Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 39: 54. 1905.
Astragalus trichopodus gaviotus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 571. 1925.
A perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stems stout, terete, cinereous-strigose, 3-5 dm. high, branched above; stipules lanceolate, distinct, 3-5 mm. long; leaves 5-10 cm. long; leaflets 15-31, oblong or elliptic, 1-2.5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, obtuse, rounded or retuse at the apex, strigose on both sides; peduncles about 1 dm. long; racemes 2-3 cm. long, dense; bracts lanceolate, 3 mm. long; calyx strigose with mixed black and white hairs, the tube 3 mm. long, somewhat gibbous, the teeth subulate, 1 mm. long; corolla white, 15 mm. long; banner obovate, moderately arched; wings a little shorter, the blades obliquely oblanceolate ; keel-petals much shorter, the blade broadly lunate; pod spreading or pendent, finely strigose, stipitate, the stipe 6-S mm. long, the body elliptic, 2.5-3 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, acute at each end, finely reticulate, straighter on the upper than on the lower suture; seeds brown, orbicular-reniform, 3 mm. long, nearly as broad.
Type locality: Gaviota, Santa Barbara County, California.
Distribution: Type locality and vicinity.