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legume, etc. But not so readily from P. braoteata of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The upper surface of the leaves become of a dark verdigris-green in drying, 

 like Petalostemon macrostachya of Torr., but all parts of the flower are most 

 perfectly separate and distinct from the staminal sheath, as in Psoralea. 

 We are indebted to Miss Anderson for the following Lake County Lupin: 



Lupinus sericatus. K. 



Stem woody at the base, ascending, low (% to 1 foot), pubescence white, 

 closely appressed, as if clad in a silvery satiny sheen throughout; leaves 3-5 

 inches long; leaflets spatulate, extremity broadly rounded obtuse (abrupt 

 mucronation mostly obsolete), base narrowly cuneate, %'-% the length of the 

 petiole (or 1-1% inches); racemes twice the length of the leaves (about six 

 inches long); flowers subverticillate or scattered, purple blue; pedicels rather 

 stout, angled, rarely as long — often shorter — than the calyx; bracts deciduous; 

 calyx campanulate, neither gibbous nor spurred, upper lip shortly two-toothed, 

 the scarcely longer lower lip obsoletely three-toothed; bracteoles subulate, a 

 line or more in length: banner somewhat short, slightly pubescent on the 

 back; wings broad, naked; keel acute, a little cilliate; pods 3-5-seeded; ma- 

 ture legume not seen. 



The description of Psoralea macrostachya in the recent State Botany should 

 be amended so as to include characteristic coast forms. In this vicinity they 

 are weakly scabrous with elevated glands, as in the description of T. and G. ; 

 leaflets rhombic-ovate, pubescent above and subglabrous beneath; peduncles 

 %-l foot or more in length, or 2-6 times exceeding the leaves; pseudo-brac- 

 teoles of their base, sometimes developing into accessory leaves; spikes sim- 

 ple, or branched by twos and threes, the floral portion 2-8 inches long, cylin- 

 drical and dense, or scattered; bracts relatively broad (2 lines), or half the 

 length of the calyx, rhombic, the abrupt acumination very short, early decid- 

 uous; calyx 4-6 lines long: lower tooth % to % longer, but shorter than the 

 flowers. 



Closely allied to Phacelia cllllata, Benth., is another form worthy of note, 

 collected by the late Dr. Andrews: 



Phacelia glandulosa. K. 



Stem annual,- a span or more high, with few branches at the top; hispid 

 and stipitate-giandular, mostly throughout; leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat 

 seven-lobed, irregularly sinuate-toothed, three-nerved, canescent-pubescent 

 chiefly above, petioles equal, or of upper leaves shorter; spikes simple, axil- 

 lary, leafy, terminal one naked, at length elongating into loose racemes, ped- 

 icels declined ascending in fruit, genitals much exserted from the blue rotate 

 corolla; calyx lobes linear-spatulate hispid and stipitate-black glandular, and 

 on the inside villous, % to % the length of the capsule; style deeply 2-parted, 

 shorter than the bearded filaments; capsule ovate-oblong, acuminate, hispid 

 and often glandular on the outer third, about 20-seeded; seeds triangular pris- 

 matic, minutely alveolar-pitted. 



Among other observations, it is deemed important to place on record that 

 the Hon. Vice-President, H. Edwards, presents to the Academy a naturalized 



