152 I.EAFLETS. 



Miscellaneous Specific Types. — IV 



lyUPiNUS HIRSUTULUS. Rather large annual, the branches 

 stout, strongly decumbent or merely assurgent, nearly a foot 

 long, whitish and almost polished underneath a double indu- 

 ment, namely, of long and sparse pilose hairs, and a short less 

 sparse villous pubescence : stipules long, subulate-filiform ; 

 petioles much longer than the leaves, slender, strongly hir- 



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and short, of only about four verticils these rather crowded : 

 calyx short, densely silky-villous ; corolla apparently light- 

 purple, little more than % inch long; pods linear, 1 inch 

 long densely and softly villous, 5 to 7 seeded : seeds small, 

 dull-whitish. 



Beacon Hill, Vancouver Island, 15 June, 1908, Prof. John 

 Macoun. A new and very distinct member of the group of 

 small-flowered annual lupines; the plant itself large as the 

 largest of them, but much depressed. 



EuTHAMiA GALETORUM. Stems slender, erect, 2 feet high, 

 simple, parted at summit into a narrow corymbose inflores- 

 cence of few heads ; the whole plant glabrous, the puncta- 

 tion obscure, all the parts flexible and with a suggestion of 

 succulency or fleshiness : leaves of a shining green when fresh, 

 linear, acute : involucres broadly turbinate, as broad at summit 

 as high ; outer bracts green, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, the inner 

 oblong, only greenish at tip, all obtusish, their margins faintly 

 scaberulous under a lens: rays rather many, oblong-oval, 

 deep yellow, disk-flowers numerous ; achenes strigulose. 



In very wet ground on the very margin of I^ake Pleasant, 

 near Springfield, Nova Scotia, collected by the writer 8 Au- 

 gust, 1910, A bog plant was unexpected in this genus, for the 

 greater proportion of the species are of rather dry habitat. 

 This one was found growing among sundews and bog violets, 

 bordering thickets of sweet gale. 



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