1923] Ottleij: A Revision of the Calif ornian Species of Lotus 213 



11. L. strigosus Greene (pi. 71. %s. 1-11). Annuals, ascending or 

 decumbent, with many slender branches arising from the crown of 

 the root ; herbage and pods appressed-hirsutulous ; leaves 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 

 long, with 6 to 10 leaflets scattered along the flattened rachis, one 

 nearly at the base of the leaf and only about one-half the size of the 

 terminal leaflet ; leaflets acute, linear-oblong, those of the lower leaves 

 often cuneate-obovate and obtuse; peduncles exceeding the leaves or 

 shorter, the lower ones 1-flowered, those higher up on the stem 2 to 3- 

 flowered ; bract when present mostly of one leaflet ; flowers 5 to 10 mm. 

 long; pods straight or slightly curved at apex, 2 to 3 cm. long, 2 to 

 2.5 mm. wide, the beak short and straight ; seeds many, granulose, 

 notched at the hilum, quadrate in surface view; in cross-section 

 rounded oblong, not more than 1 mm. in diameter. 



Common in sandy situations near the coast from San Francisco 

 south to San Diego County, Distribution Map 4. January-November. 

 The small-flowered plants agree with L. ruheUus Greene. I do not 

 find the seeds of these distinguishable from those of the large-flowered 

 form of L. strigosus Greene, either by shape of seed or by markings 

 of seedcoat, as claimed by Greene. 



Localities. — San Francisco, Jepson 2632 ; San Francisco, Greene, 

 May 30, 1892, and May 27, 1893 ; sand hills near the Marine Hospital, 

 San Francisco, Heller 6628 ; sand hills near San Francisco, C. Baker 

 2855 ; San Francisco, Blasclale, June 11, 1893 ; Lake Merced, San 

 Francisco County, Michener and Bioletti, November, 1892, and April 

 23, 1892; Antioch, Contra Costa County, Chcsnut and Drew, April 

 18, 1889; Steven's Creek Caiion, San "Mateo County, Wright 74; 

 Temescal Range, Brewer 153 (leaves less than 1.5 cm. in length) ; 

 ridge west of Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, Heller 7375 (leaves 

 large, largest ones 3 cm. long with leaflets 3 to 4 mm. wide ; flowers 

 1.4 cm. long); foothills near Stanford University, C. Baker 669; 

 Stanford University, Elmer 3024; Santa Cruz, Jones 2265; Pacific 

 Grove in pine woods, Heller 6689, 6818 ; Pacific Grove, Elmer 3574 ; 

 Pacific Grove, Chandler 341; Monterey, Eastwood, April 16, 1900; 

 near Gigling Station east of Monterey, Heller 6714; Carmel, Ottley 

 1261 ; on the right bank of the Carmel River three miles above the 

 Mission, Heller 6588; Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, Barber 

 April 9, 1899, and April 25, 1901; Santa Maria, Summers; Coast 

 Range north of San Luis Obispo, Palmer 78; Santa Ynez Mountains, 

 near Santa Barbara, T. S. Brandegee in 1888; Carpinteria, Brewer 

 262 ; Santa Barbara, Elmer 3924 ; Santa Paula, Evermann in 1880 ; 

 Susana Pass, Ventura County, Jepson 8466 ; Santa Susana Moun- 

 tains, Brewer 206 (leaves less than 1.5 cm. in length) ; Matilija Caiion, 

 Peckham, February 26, 1866; Saugus, Davy, March 1, 1901 (three 

 sheets in U.C. Herbarium with leaflets short, and obovate to nearly 

 orbicular); Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, Ottley 684; Pasadena, Ottley 

 599; Garvanza, Brannton 156; near Inglewood, Ahrams 3246; Elysian 

 Park, Braunton 835; Eaton Caiion, San Gabriel Mountains, Ottley 

 541 ; near Bassett, Los Angeles County, Ottley 668 ; San Gabriel 

 Wash near Azusa, Grinnell, March 29, 1901 ; Claremont, C. Baker 

 4006 (leaflets obovate to orbicular) ; North Pomona, Braunton 229 ; 

 Pomona, Barber, April 20, 1897; Witch Creek, Alderson, April, 1894; 

 Granite, vicinity of San Diego, Spencer 94, 95 ; San Diego, Dunn, 



