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LEGUMINOSAE 



18. L. cervinus Kcll. Dker Lupine. (Fig. 182.) Plants 5 to 12 inches high, 

 the long-petioled loaves and long-pcduneled racemes basal or siib-basal, arising 

 from the very short or shortly branched stem (1 to 3 inches) ; herbage finely and 

 very densely short-silky ; leaflets 5 to 7, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or sometimes sub- 

 acute, mueronate, 1 to 314 inches long, 5 to 13 lines wide; petioles 3 to 8 inches long; 

 racemes 3 to 7 inches long, with definite or somewhat indefinite whorls, the long 

 peduncle exceeding or not at all exceeding the 



leaves ; Howers 6 to 7 lines long ; pedicels IV2 

 to 2Y2 lines long; calyx-lips nearlj^ equal, the 

 upper 2-toothed, the lower 3-toothed; petals 

 light blue; banner glabrous or pubescent on the 

 back; keel ciliate; pods silky-pubescent with 

 appressed hairs, 1 to l^^ inches long, 4 to 

 7-seeded. 



Dry soil under pines, 1000 to 3000 feet: 

 Santa Lucia Mts. June. 



Locs. — Burro trail (both sides of summit), K. 

 Branclegce ; upper San Antonio Eiver, Jepson 1652; 

 Lucia, Jepson; Big Sur Kiver, Davy 7433. 



Eefs. — LuPiNUS CERVINUS Kell. Proe. Cal. Acad. 

 2:229, fig. 73 (1863), type loc. Santa Lucia Mts., Lohb 

 119; Jepson, Man. 532 (1925). L. latissimus Greene, 

 Lflts. 2 :68 (1910), tvpe loc. Tassajara Hot Sprs., Mon- 

 terey Co., Elmer. 



19. L. grayi Wats. Sierra Lupine. (Fig. 

 183.) Plants 5 to 14 inches high, the stems as- 

 cending or decumbent, several from a woody 

 branched root-crown, the proper stems short ; 

 herbage densely and finely tomentose, usually 

 with some villous hairs intermixed; leaves 

 chiefly basal or sub-basal; leaflets 5 to 11, cu- 

 neate-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, 

 i/o to 1 (or li^) inches long; petioles 1% to 5 



inches long; racemes 3 to 6I/2 inches long, the flowers subverticillate, the whorls 

 discrete or sometimes remote ; peduncles 2 to 4i/^ inches long ; pedicels 1 to 2 lines 

 long; flowers 6 to 8 lines long; lower calyx-lip slender, entire or 3-cleft at apex, 

 upper lip broad, entire or cleft; petals blue, purple, lavender or whitish, the yellow 

 spot on the banner becoming red in age ; banner glabrous on back or slightly hairy 

 at apex, broad, its yellowish-white spot aging to purple ; keel ciliate ; pods % to 

 1^8 inches long, 4 to 6-seeded. 



Stony slopes, 2400 to 6400 feet : Sierra Nevada from Kern Co. to Plumas Co. 

 June-July. 



Habit note. — Lupinus grayi is generally an inhabitant of the open hillside forests of the 

 Pinus ponderosa belt. It is somewhat caespitose in habit or half -matted, on account of its 

 mainly basal leaves and short proper stems which are often decumbent at base. 



Locs. — Piute Peak, Kern Co., Purpus 5310; Colony Mill, Marble Fork Kaweah Eiver, Jep- 

 son 650; Simpson Mdw,, Middle Fork Kings Eiver, Henrietta Eliot; Arnold Mdw., Madera Co., 

 A. L. Grant 1348; North Fork, Madera Co., Noddin; Grouse Creek, s. Mariposa Co., Jepson 

 8383; Hazel Green, Jepson lit, 64t; Yosemite, Jepson 10,470; Little Yosemite, Jepson 4398; 

 Sugar Pine, Tuolumne Co., Chesnut 4" Drew; Strawberry sta., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 26; 

 Italian Bar, South Fork Stanislaus Eiver, Jepson 6363; Gold Eun, Placer Co., K. Brandegee ; 

 Blue Canon, Placer Co., H. A. Walker 1281 ; Truckee, Michener; Quincy, B. M. Austin. 



Eefs.-— Lupinus grayi Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11:126 (1876); Jepson, Man. 532 (1925). 

 L. andersonii var. grayi Wats. I.e. 8:531 (1873), type loc. near Clarks Eanch (Wawona), Mari- 

 posa Co., Gray. 



Fig. 182. Lupinus cervinus Kell. 

 a, habit, X Vn ; &, fl., X 1 ; c, banner, 

 X 1; d, wing, X 1; e, keel, X 1; /, 

 pod, X V2. 



