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from California, Douglas. Syrmatium jiinceum Greene, Bull. Calif. 

 Acad., vol. 2, 1886, p. 147. Var. biolettii Ottley. Lotus hiolettii 

 Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, 1892, p. 222, type loe., dry Vidges above Mill 

 Vallev, Marin Countv, Bioletti. Syrmatium hioletti Heller, Muhl., 

 vol. 9, 1918, p. G7. 



26. L. eriophorus Greene (pi. 79, figs. 1-9). Prostrate (ascend- 

 ing), miicli-branclied, forming a dense mat several decimeters in 

 diameter ; herbage, calyces, and fruits covered with a dense villous 

 pubescence, the hairs spreading out from the stem and giving the 

 ends of the branches a woolly appearance ; largest leaves on the main 

 branches often conspicuously larger than the others, sometimes attain- 

 ing a length of 2.5 em. ; leaflets 4 to 6, scattered, often one at the base 

 of the leaf, oblanceolate or obovate, acute and apiculate ; umbels 4 to 

 10-flowered ; bract of one leaflet ; peduncle very short to 5 mm. long ; 

 floAvers 5 to 7 mm. long; calyx slightly more than one-half the length 

 of the flower, with filiform teeth approaching the length of the tube ; 

 wings as long as or slightly longer than the keel; legumes fat, arcuate, 

 with a long incurved beak, indistinctly keeled, usually 2-seeded. 



Near the coast from Sonoma County south to San Diego County. 

 Distribution ]\Iap 9. April-October. 



Localities.- — Bodega Point, Sonoma County, Eastwood, June 9, 

 1899; Bolina^s Bay, Marin County, Cliemutl A\>t\\, 1891; Italian 

 Cemetery, San Francisco, Bioletti, June 22, 1892 ; south of life-saving 

 station, San Francisco, Jepson 2633; Point Lobos, Jepson, August 20, 

 1891; Lands End, San Francisco, Ottley 119, 131, 415, 428, 1221; 

 Big Trees, Santa Cruz County, K. Brandegee 16, 1889 (flower- 

 length of the variety) ; Pacific Grove, in pine woods. Heller 6630 ; 

 Pacific Grove, Chandler 346; Monterey, State Survey 635, "good 

 match for tyipe of Hosackia tomentosa Hook. & Arn. in Bentham 

 Herb. Pubescence of type is slightly more brownish or rusty ; leaflets 

 of type are mainly like the largest ones on this. ' ' Jepson '06 ; Seven- 

 teen-Mile Drive, Monterev, Noddin, October 10, 1915 ; Point Carmel, 

 Setchell, June 3, 1901 ;' Carmel, Ottley 1256, 1304; San Simeon, 

 Curran, June, 1888; Carlsbad, San Diego County, Street 1926 

 (pubescence of the variety) ; Mission Caiion near San Diego, Hall 

 3922; Palomar, T. S. Brandegee, August 1, 1898. The two specimens 

 cited below although within the range of the variet}- po.ssess the 

 pubescence and flowers of the type : Red Hill near Upland, San 

 Bernardino Countv, Johnston, Mav 6, 1917; Evev Canon, Johnston 

 1913. 



Var. heermannii Ottley n. comb. (pi. 79, figs. 10-17). Pubescence 

 thinner, stems often glabrate; flowers smaller (3 to 5 mm. long); 

 legumes mostly 1-seeded. — Within the range of the species from Santa 

 Cruz County to San Diego County, extending eastward beyond the 

 species into San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Distribution 

 Map 9. April-November. 



The typical varietal form appears at low altitudes in sandy washes 

 near the coast. As it passes inland to the higher altitudes, as in the 

 San Jacinto Mountains (Distribution Map 9), it approaches L. 

 douglasii Greene var. nevadensis in general appearance, but may be 

 distinguished from the latter by the spreading hairs of the young 



