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sessile, many-flowered racemes. The membraae of the filaments is very large, five of the stamens are 

 elongated and barren, five shorter with linear orange-coloured anthers. Legumes about an inch long, each 

 with two flat seeds. 



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Herh(B perennes. 



f Flores ccBruleiy purpurea rariits albi. 



4. L. lepidus; herbacens, perennis, floribus alternis pedicellatis ebracteolatls, calycis 

 villosi labio superiore bipartite inferiore acuminato elongate, foliolis 5-7 lanceolatis utrinque 

 sericeis, caule florido erecto subunifolio. Lindl, — Douglas in Bot Beg. L 1149. 



Hab. About Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia, and in the vallies of the Blue Moimtaina, North-West 

 America. Douglas. — This and the following species have the stem so bnro of leaves, that it might almost be 

 called a scape; whilst in almost all the succeeding species the stem is very leafy. 



5. L, minimus; herbaceus, dense sericeo-pilosus, parvus, caule 1-2-foliato, foliolis 7-9 

 lanceolatis acutis inferne attenuatis, floribus alternis verticillatisque, pedicellis ebracteoLitis, 

 calycis lahio superiore apice bifido, inferiore integro, radice parva subfusiformi. — DmtglaSy 

 MSS* in Herb. HorL Soc. 



Hab. Mountain-valiies in North -West America, near the Kettle Falls; and very abundant towards the 

 Rocky Mountains, along the course of the Columbia. Douglas. — This Ls a small specie^, scarcely a spaa high, 

 and allied to the following, but differing in its very dense and silky foliage, ui the stem beaiiiig only one or 

 two leaves, (but several radical ones,) and in the usually vertioilJate flowers. 



6. L. perennis; herbaceus, floribus alternis pedicellatis bracteolatis, calycis labio supe- 

 riore subemarginato infer, integro, foliolis oblongis mucroiiatis subtus subvillosis, radice 

 repente. DC, — Linn, Sp, PL p, 1015. Mick, Am. v, 2. p, 55. Purshy FL Am. v, 2, p, 467. 

 EllioU, Carol, v. 2. p. 191. Curt, in Bot Mag, t 202. BigeL Fl, Bost, ed, 2. p. 261, Rick, 

 in Frankl, \st Journ, ed, 2, p, 27. 



Hab. Canada. Michaux, Shores of the Arctic Sea. Dr. Richardson. Upper Canada, plentiful. Doti- 

 glas. Cape Mulgrave, in Behring's Straits, Messrs. Lay and Collie^ in Captain Beecheifs Collection. — Dr. 

 Richardson's specimens have the leaves more acute, and the plant itself somewhat more hairy than in Dr. 

 Boott's specimens from the United States. 



7. L, Nootkatensis ; herbaceus, caulibus patenti-pilosissimis, floribus subverticillatis pedi- 

 cellatis ebracteolatis, calycis valde hirsuti labio utroque integro, bracteis linearibus calyce 

 longioribus pilosissimis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis mucronatis inferne attenuatis 

 subtus sericeis. Donn, Cat Cant Pursh, Fl, Am, v, 2, p, 458. Sims in Bot Mag, t 1311, 

 and t 2136. — /3. glaber, 



Hab. «. North-West America. Menzies, Douglas. Nootka and Unala-schka. (Pursh, De Cand.) 

 and /3. Rocky Mountains, north of the Smoking River, in lat. 55P.—0{ the only two sppcimeiw in Mr. Drum- 

 mond's Collection, one is quite glabrous ; the other deusely villous and exactly corrtsponding with the L. 

 Nootkatensis, cultivated in the Horticultural Societ/s Garden, from seeds brought home by Mr. Douglas, 

 and which I consider to be the true state of the plant. It is well represented in the Bot. Mag. t. 131 1, 

 except that the raceme being in an advanced state, the bractea« are wanting, which appear to me to form an 

 essential character in the species; for here they exceed in length the flower-buds, till these are fully ex- 

 panded. The var. /3. of Bot Mag, t 2136, is said to be fruticose and quite hardy. 



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