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Liipinus Stiverii, (Kellogg). Fig. 58. 



Stem, sviffi-uticose, appressed, canescent pubescent, fistulous, 

 somewhat striated 1)v deciuTent ridges from the leaves. 



Leaflets six to seven, an inch to an inch and a half long, 

 (scarcely half the length of the petiole) oblong, obovate-spatulate, 

 attenuately cuneate at base ; obtuse, (or rather sub-acute) ab- 

 ruptly, very short acute mucronate, appressed pubescent above, 

 margins canescent, more densely appressed pubescent beneath ; 

 petiole about half the length of the raceme, base expanded, stem 

 clasping, strongly three-nerved at the point of insertion ; stipules 

 adnate, persistent, hnear-lance sub-falcate, canescently villous. 



Racemes condensed, conical, somewhat paniculate, long pedun- 

 culate, (three to six inches in length) rachis flexuous ; flowers 

 alternate, large ; banner bright yellow, a few red spots in the 

 center, rhomboid ; wings pale blueish purple, oblong, projecting, 

 longer than the vexillum, ciliate on the posterior margin of the 

 tooth at the base ; carina whitish, sub-falcate, short rostrate, 

 obtusely pomted, a little longer than the wings, margms some- 

 what ciliate towards the base above, strongly ciliate underneath, 

 (along the proper keel portion). 



Calyx mumtcly bracteolate, upper lip deeply two-parted, seg- 

 ments lanceolate acute, naked witliin ; lower-lip minutely three- 

 toothed, middle tooth a little longer ; pedicels very short, villous : 

 bracts sub-caducous, setaceous, shorter than the calyx. 



Legumes small, (similar to L. 7nieranthus^ toiiilose, constricted, 

 but not shortened, naked, six to seven seeded, pods colorless or 

 very pale gi-eenish hue, opening at maturity with twisting valves, 

 persistent at their base. Seeds slightly longer than broad, angled 

 compressed, pale shining umber with dark spots chiefly above and 

 below. 



Found on the Sien-a Nevada Mountams, at the Summit Mead- 

 ows, on the INIariposa trail to Yo Semite, by Mr. Stivers. 



The first plant in blossom, growing within fifty yards of the snow. 

 Allied to L.foUosus, but in this the leaflets arc glabrous above — 

 the lower lip of the calyx entire, and the legumes pilose. It ap- 

 pears to approach X. subeai'nosus, but in the number of seeds and 

 naked pods, and color of the flowers, &c., it differs. 



Liipinus confertus, (Kellogg). Fig. 59. 



Stem leafy, silky-hirsute, with long Aveak or soft white hairs 

 throughout; (the hairs under a strong glass are scabroid-tuber- 

 culate) . 



Leaflets five (or three) to seven, oblanceolate, acute or very 

 shortly acuminate, apex somewhat recurved, narrowed at the base, 



