58 
BOTANY. 
LupiNUS (?). Stem stout, 2° high,. simple, sparsely silky-villous ; 
leaflets 9-11, obovate-lanceolate, (2' long,) subacute, glabrous above, ap- 
pressed villous beneath; raceme elongated; flowers glabrous, rather large, 
blue ; upper Hp of calyx 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed ; legume broadly oblong, 
(1' or more long, 5" broad,) about 5-seedecl, very hairy ; seeds large, 2-3" in 
diameter. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 5,000 feet altitude ; June. 
(236.) 
LupiNUS Andersoni. Specimens were collected near Carson City by Dr. 
Anderson, (9, 108, and 121,) very distinct in their habit, and seeming scarcely 
to belong to any described species. Slender and much branched, apparently 
1° high, minutely puberulent throughout; leaflets 7, oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or obtuse, about equaling the petioles, (1-2' long ;) . racemes short or becoming 
elongated, (2-6',) loosely flowered ; flowers scattered or subverticillate, blue 
or ochroleucous, (3-6" long;) bracts small and ovate, much shorter than the 
pedicels ; calyx broad-campanulate, but slightly gibbous, the lobes nearly 
equal, entire, somewhat obtuse ; legumes subpubescent, 4-6-seeded, (15" long, 
4// wide.) 
LupiNUS ToEREYi, Gray MSS., in Herb. 82 Torrey from near Washoe 
Lake, Nevada, as also his 89 from Donner Pass and 6286 Bolander from Yo- 
Semite Valley, California, have been thus named by Dr. Gray. It is near L. 
minimus, and Hkewise resembles L. aridus, with low stems, (6-12/,) rufous 
silky-villous pubescence, and dense long-bracted racemes, (2-4" long ;) leaflets 
7, (1' long,) acute, tufted-mucronate, on long slender petioles ; bracts and 
sepal-lobes linear-lanceolate ; flowers blue-purple, 3-5" in length ; legumes 
silkj^ ovate-oblong, 2-seeded. 
LupiNUS Beeweri, Gray. Proc. Amer.'Acad. 7. 334. Small and shrubby, 
very much branched, cfEspitose, prostrate, silvery, with a closely appressed 
silky pubescence; stipules subulate; leaflets 7-10, spatulate or cuneate, retuse, 
(3-4" long ;) raceme short, (1',) densely flowered ; upper hp of the bracteo- 
late calyx 2-parted; corolla violet, (3-4" long;) keel scarcely cihate. Yo- 
Semite Valley, (Brewer ;) near Carson City, Nevada, (Anderson.) 
Medicago sativa, L. Near Unionville, Nevada. Doubtless introduced. 
(237.) 
Melilotus alba, Lam. Stream banks near Salt Lake City; introduced. 
(238 ^) 
Melilotus parviflora, Desf Lower leaflets obovate-ioundish, often 
