Astragalus robbinsii var. harringtonii (Rydb.) Barneby

Atelophragma harringtonii (Coville & Standley) Rydb. Bull Torrey Club 55: 126. 1928.
Astragalus Harringtonii Coville & Standley; Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 55: 127, as synonym. 1928.
A perennial, with a rootstock; stems decumbent at the base, 2-3 dm. high, angled, sparingly pubescent with black ascending hairs; leaves 6-10 cm. long; stipules broadly ovate, 5-8 mm. long; leaflets 11-15, elliptic or oval, 1-2 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, sparingly pilose but soon glabrate above, rather densely white-pilose beneath, at least when young; peduncles 6-10 cm. long, black-hairy ; bracts linear-subulate, -1—5 mm. long; calyx black-hairy, the tube 5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, the teeth 3-4 mm. long, subulate; corolla purplish, 12-15 mm. long; banner obovate, strongly arched at the middle, deeply retuse at the apex; wings nearly as long, the blade oblanceolate with a large reflexed auricle; keel-petals much shorter, the blade obliquely obovate, rounded at the apex; pod black-hairy, the stipe about equaling the calyx-tube, the body lance-elliptic, acute at each end, 10-12 mm. long, 4—5 mm. broad, the sutures nearly equally curved, the lower sulcate, the partial septum about 1 mm. wide; seeds dark-brown, orbicular-reniform, fully 2 mm. broad.
Type locality: Goodnews Bay, Alaska. Distribution: Alaska, near the coast.