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1. S. JUNOEUM, Linn. Sp. PL 708 (1753). — Native of southern Europe ; 

 extremely beautiful when in flower, and, with its fascicles of long reedy 

 branches, at no season unsightly. Spontaneous near San Francisco. 



16. LUPINUS, Catullus (Lupine). Leaves palmately 5— 15-foliolate ; 

 leaflets entire, sessile ; stipules adnate, seldom conspicuous. Flowers 

 blue, pinkish or yellow, in terminal racemes, with bracts mostly caducous. 

 Calyx deeply bilabiate ; upper lip notched, lower usually entire, occasion- 

 ally 3-toothed or -cleft. Banner roundish ; wings falcate-oblong, com- 

 monly slightly united at tip in front of, and enclosing, the falcate usually 

 slender-pointed keel. Stamens monadelphous, dimorphous, 5 with longer 

 and basifixed anthers, the alternate 5 with shorter and versatile ones. 

 * Pods several-seeded ; cotyledons distinct, petiolate. 

 -)— Animals ; flowers not verticillate. 



1. L. gracilis, Agardh, Syn. 15. t. i. (1835). Erect, slender, 6—10 in. 

 high, very pilose : leaflets 5—7, cuneate-obovate, ^ — }/^ in. long : raceme 

 short, lax : upper lip of calyx bifid, lower 3-toothed : petals 3 lines long, 

 blue and white ; banner shorter than the others ; keel exceeding the 

 wings : pod % ^^- lo^ig • ^^^d 1 line broad. — From Monterey southward ; 

 seldom seen. 



2. L. conciimus, Agardh, 1. c. 6. t. i. Low, stouter than the last, 

 oanescently hirsxxte : leaflets 5—8, oblanceolate, 4—10 lines long, obtuse ; 

 raceme short, dense, subsessile ; bracts linear-setaceous, persistent : upper 

 calyx-lip 2-parted, lower deeply trifid : petals ^^ in. long, violet ; banner 

 shorter than the rest : pod 4-s ceded : seed orbicular. — Same range as the 

 preceding, and more common. 



3. L. hirsutissimus, Benth. Hort. Trans, n. ser. i. 409 (1833). Tall, 

 erect, very hispid with viscid stinging hairs : leaflets 5 — 7, cuneate- 

 obovate, retuse, obtuse or acute, mucronulate, ,^4 — l^g in. long : racemes 

 loose : upper calyx-lip deeply cleft : corolla }4 ^^- long, reddish-purple : 

 pod hirsute, 1 in. long. — From the Sa cramento valley southward ; in dry 

 places. 



4. L. truucatus, Nutt. in H. & A. Bot. Beech. 336 (1840). Stoutish, 

 erect, 2 ft. high, finely pubescent, at length glabrate : leaflets 5—7, linear- 

 cuneiform, 3-toothed or entire at the truncate apex, % — 1}^ in. long : 

 upper calyx-lip cleft : petals deep-purple, 4 — 5 lines long, the banner 

 shorter : pod 1^ in. long.— From Monterey southward ; attributed to 

 San Francisco by Brewer & Watson, I know not on what authority. 



5. L. Stivers!, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 192. t. 58 (1863). Much 

 branched, 1 ft. high, sparsely pubescent, rather succulent : leaflets 5 — 7, 

 broadly cuneate-obovate, 1 in. long, mucronulate : racemes few-flowered, 

 dense, pedunculate : upper calyx-lip cleft, the lobes broad, acute : fl, ^ 



