56 BOTANY. 
Var. (?) Much more silvery and silky than usual, and with the racemes 
nearly sessile ; approximating to the next and also much resembling what has 
been called L. deciimhens, Var. argophylla. Grass Valley and Eegan's Valley, 
Western Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude; June. (229.) 
LupiNUS MEIONANTHUS, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad, 6. 522. Silvery- 
canescent throughout ; stems ascending from a perennial root ; leaflets 5-9, 
oblanceolate, obtuse; stipules small, setaceous ; bracts shorter than the calyx ; 
flowers very small, (scarcely 3" long,) verticillate, in a crowded spike-like 
raceme ; calyx longer than the pedicel, bractless, lips nearly entire, about equal 
to the glabrous corolla ; keel with a broad obtuse apex, inflexed, ciliate ; 
legumes (^-1' long) ovate, silky, 1-2-seeded. Near Carson City, (Anderson.) 
Var. (?) HETEKANTiius. Flowcrs somewhat larger, with the calyx gib- 
bous or even spurred at base, and the lobes more elongated; legumes oblong, 
3-5-seeded. Of exactly the habit of the last, with stems 1° high, the 
racemes nearly sessile, and scarcely exceeding the leaves. Collected by 
Anderson (92 and 232) and also by Dr. Torrey (88) in the same region with 
the last, near Carson City. It would seem probable that this is the ordinary 
form of the species, the other being but an abnormally small-flowered variety. 
Washoe and West Plumboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 7,000 feet altitude ; July- 
September. (230.) 
LupiNUS CALCARATUS, KclL Proc. Col. Acad. 2. 195, t. 60. Erect, 8-10' 
high, silky-pubescent throughout, leafy; leaflets 7-10, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
mucronate ; stipules ovate, acuminate, persistent ; flowers in a rather close and 
short raceme ; bracts subulate, deciduous ; calyx deeply spurred at base, mi- 
nutely bracteolate, the upper lip short, 2-toothed, white, the lower larger, 
entire, acute ; banner and wings somewhat pubescent externally, and the keel 
ciliate ; pods hairy, 4-seeded. — Flowers white, the spur exceeding the pedi- 
cels. California (1891 Brewer) and near Carson City, (30 and 31 Anderson.) 
LupiNUS LEUCOPSis, Agardh. Silky-tomentose, with whitish hairs ; leaflets 
7-9, lanceolate, ecpialing the upper petioles; flowers somewhat verticillate in a 
rather dense raceme ; vexillum silky-pubescent externally ; calyx-lobes nearly 
equal, the upper 2-toothed ; legumes tomentose, 4-seeded. — Whole plant sil- 
very, 2° high ; flowers light blue or ochroleucous. Collected by Douglas in 
Oregon. In the Wahsatch, Utah ; 6,000 feet altitude. (231.) 
Var. (?). Difleriug from the last in its somewhat broader leaflets, less 
