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Adolphia Californica. a shrub of rigid and compact liaLit, 

 about two feet high ; the branches terete, with spreading spiny 

 branclilets, puberulent : leaves orbicular to oblong-ovate, one or two 

 lines long, mucronate or often retuse, abruptly attenuate to a slender 

 petiole : flowers greenish, on pedicels about equalling the leaves ; 

 petals rather deeply hooded : fruit two Ihies in diameter ; the siiort 

 style deciduous from the very base. — A. infesta, Torrey, Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 45, in part. At Solidad and Chollas Valley, near San Diego, 

 and near Monterey ; collected by Parry, Cleveland, and Palmer. 

 The more eastern A. infesta, Meisner, is distinguished by its larger 

 linear or oblong-lanceolate leaves, attenuate to a short petiole ; petals 

 less deeply hooded ; and longer style, jointed above the base, and leav- 

 ing the capsule apiculate. 



^ THERMOPsrs Californica. Woolly-tomentose throughout: stip- 

 ules lanceolate ; leaflets obovate to oblanceolate, 1 or 2 inches long, 

 acute or obtuse, equally tomentose on both sides : bracts mostly ovate, 

 broad and clasping at base : pod ou a short glabrous stipe, very 

 pubescent, linear, 6-8-ovuled ; mature fruit not known. — T. macro- 

 ■phylla, Torrey, Pacif. R. Rep. 4. 81 ; &c. T. fabacea, Torrey, Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 58. Marin and Napa counties, California, and pi-obably 

 southward. T. macrophylla, H. & A., is distinguished by its villous 

 spi'eading pubescence, its large leaves glabrous above, and broad 4—5- 

 seeded pod. The more northeru and eastern species, T. montana, 

 Nutt. (usually leferred to 7\ fabacea, DC), is much more glabrous, 

 the linear pods 10-12-seeded. 



"^ LuPiNUS NiVEUS. White throughout with a short dense tomen- 

 tum, without villousness : stems a foot high, branching, leafy : leaflets 

 nine, broadly oblanceolate, acutish, an inch long or more, shorter thau 

 the petioles : flowers subverticillate, in a shortly peduncled loose raceme ; 

 pedicels two or three lines long ; bracts short, deciduous : calyx-lips 

 equal ; the lower narrow, nearly entire ; the upper bifid : petals 

 equal, broad, all naked, four or five lines long, deep blue, the banner 

 greenish yellow in the centre : pod 5-ovuled. — Collected by Dr. E. 

 Palmer, on Guadalupe Island, on rocks. Allied to L. leucophylhis. 



^ LuPiNUS GitAYi. A span high, densely hoary-tomentose through- 

 out, usually with some silky hairs : leaflets five to nine, cuneate-oblong 

 or oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish, shorter than the petioles : racemes 

 peduncled, short and loosely flowerel, with ratlier slender pedicels a line 

 or two long ; bracts subulate, equalling the calyx, deciduous : flowers 

 subverticillate, light blue, rather large (six to seven lines long), with 

 broad wings and broad naked banner; keel ciliate : pod 5-6-seeded, 



