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PI^ANTS FROM ARIZONA. 23 



tary, short-peduncled, turbinate, an inch high, more than an 

 inch broad, the bracts many, strongly imbricated, coriaceous 

 ^ but with hard and cuspidate green tips, the outer somewhat 



spatulate-oblong, the inner broadly linear, all acute and rigid : 

 rays rather many, not showy. 



Mountains of northern Arizona, especially those near Flag- 

 staff, where it has been collected by Rusby (1883), Lenimon 

 (1886), M. E. Jones (1884), and MacDougal (1891). 



Saracha sessilis. Annual, 2 feet high, with several 

 widely spreading angular branches from near the base ; herb- 

 age w^hoUy glabrous ; leaves very thin and ample, the larger 

 5 and 6 inches long exclusive of the slender petiole, 3 and 35^ 

 in width near the middle, broady ovate, very acute at both 

 ends, perfectly entire; umbels 3-flowered, sessile, or very 

 nearly so in the axils of the leaves : corollas very small and 

 white, fruiting calyx 5-Iobed, apparently rotate, nearly 1 inch 

 w^ide, imperfectly or not at all enfolding the rather small berry. 



Shady nooks of the Chiricahui Mountains at about 6,000 

 feet, J. C. Blumer, 1907. 



LupiNUS Blumeri. Perennial, the ascending stems slender 

 and dry, not succulent, a foot high or more, loosely leafy, 

 sparsely pilose : leaves rather large for the plant ; leaflets 

 about 8, very unequal, the longest 2 inches, the shortest little 

 more than 1 inch, narrowly oblanceolate, abruptly acute, 

 glabrous above, beneath sparsely appressed-hairy, the margins 

 beset with unequal pilose hairs : racemes few-flowered and 

 short, nearly sessile, too few-flowered to appear definitely ver- 

 ticillate : corollas large, more than V^ inch long; banner at 

 first pale violet with orange center, this orange changing to 

 very dark purple ; wings about as large as the banner, violet ; 

 keel uncommonly broad and short, not equalling the wings, 

 shortly somewhat woolly-ciliolate from below the middle to the 

 * apex : pod not known. 



Chiricahui Mountains, at about 8,000 feet, J. C. Blumer, 

 June, 1908. Said to be a handsome and showy plant, early 

 flowering. 



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