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oblanceolate, acute, ^i — 1 in. long : raceme dense, 2—3 in. long, the 

 peduncle shorter than the leaves : calyx-lips deeply toothed : fl. blue ; 

 keel ciliate. — Same range as the last, but little known. 



31. L. lepidus, Dougl. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1149 (1828). Densely 

 silky villous, a few in. to 2 ft. high, with few long-petioled leaves : 

 stipules subulate, falcate ; leaflets 5—7, oblanceolate, % — 1% in. long : 

 raceme short-peduncled ; fi. scarcely whorled, deep purple, the banner 

 with a white spot ; keel abruptly falcate, woolly-margined : pod 1 in. 

 long ; seeds white. — Attributed to the eastern slope of the Sierra in the 

 " Botany of California " ; but no plant answering to the description of 

 L. lepidus is known to us as Oalifornian. 



32. L. parviflorus, Nutt. in H. & A. Bot. Beech. 336 (1840). Stem 

 solitary, erect, tall, branching ; herbage somewhat hirsute, at length 

 glabrate, pale and glaucescent : stipules minute, subulate ; leaflets 5—7, 

 oblanceolate : raceme slender, ^{ — 1 ft. long ; fl. subverticillate, small, 

 blue ; upper calyx-lip notched, lower entire : pod ^^ in. long, 2 — 4-seeded: 

 seed light-colored. — Yosemite, McLean, thence northward and eastward. 



33. L. calcaratus, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 195, fig. 60 (1863). 

 Stems clustered, erect, stoutish, 1 — 2 ft. high : pubescence minute, silky: 

 leaflets about 9, oblanceolate, acute, 1 — 2 in. long; raceme short-peduncled, 

 dense : fl. scattered, small, purplish or white ; calyx-tube produced 

 above into a spur ; upper lip notched, and with the spur colored like 

 the corolla ; lower longer, entire : banner silky-pubescent on the back ; 

 keel broad, abruptly apiculate, the margin ciliolate : pod 1 in. long : 

 seed light-colored. — Eastern base of the Sierra, on the borders of 

 Nevada. 



34. L. caudatus, Kellogg, 1. c. 198, fig. 61. Near the last, but the 

 herbage canescent with a dense silky -velvety pubescence : racemes sub- 

 sessile ; fl. subverticillate, deep violet ; spur of calyx shorter ; keel 

 narrower and cymbiform, its margin densely woolly-ciliate. — Same habi- 

 tat as the last ; obtained near Boca, Sonne, in 1888. 



35. L. meioiianthus, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 522 (1868). Resembling 

 the last, but dense pubescence shorter ; racemes short, subsessile ; fl. 

 smaller (only 2 lines long) ; calyx not spurred : banner glabrous ; keel 

 merely ciliate. — In the Donner Lake district, near the highest summits, 

 thence eastward and southward in Nevada. 



36. L. holosericeus, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 380 (1840). Slender, 12-18 

 in. high ; pubescence silvery, closely appressed : leaflets 6 — 8, narrowly 

 oblanceolate, acute, arcuate, i?^ — 1% in. long: racemes subsessile, 3 — 6 

 in. long : fl. whorled, small ; calyx slightly spurred ; lips broad, nearly 

 equal, the upper notched : banner broad, pubescent on the back ; keel 



