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linear-lanceolate, about 7 mm. long ; flower stalks scapose, the 

 flower bearing part 15 cm. long; flowers rather large, deep indigo 

 blue, 1 cm. in width, and nearly 1.5 cm. long, verticillate, the in- 

 ternodes usually short; bracts narrowly lanceolate, barely half 

 the length of the calyx ; calyx sericeous, not spurred, not quite 

 half the length of the corolla, unequally cleft, the upper lobe 

 slightly shorter, and again two-cleft, its lobes obliquely lanceolate ; 

 the lower lobe lanceolate, entire, strongly concave ; banner glab- 

 rous, bearing a light spot on the inner face, keel bearded on the 

 inner side near the apex. 



The type is no. 3080, collected opposite the Central Ferry, 

 four miles east of Lewiston, Nez Perces county, Idaho, May 18, 

 1 896, altitude 800 feet. The specimens were obtained in low, sandy 

 and gravelly ground, on the banks of the Clearwater river, form- 

 erly known as the " Kooskoosky," where it grew in large patches, 

 the hundreds of plants, with their bright blue flowers, presenting 

 a very attractive appearance. It is with pleasure that I dedicate 

 this beautiful species to my wife, Mrs. E. Gertrude Heller, who as- 

 sisted in gathering the specimens. 



This species was collected by Sandberg, MacDougal and Hel- 

 ler in 1892, at a point four miles further up the river, where it 

 grew on an island, in sand and gravel near the water's edge. It 

 is their no. 120, determined as " Lupin us Icpidus Dougl." by Mr. 

 Holzinger, in Cont U. S. Nat. Herb. 3:219. An albino form 

 was also collected at the same time, growing in company with 

 plants of ordinary color. Mr. Holzinger also gives the wrong 

 habitat, for he says, " On Peter creek near Upper Ferry, Clear- 

 water river, above Lewiston." It may be stated that the habitat 

 which he gives to no. 1 20 belongs to no. 99, and the " island in 

 Clearwater river" under no. 99, belongs to no. 120, but not the 

 " grassy hillsides," for the islands are almost level. Also, no. 99 

 is not "Lupinus Burkei Wats." as determined by him, but is L»- 

 pimts Wycthii. In 1892 it was collected by the writer on hillsides 

 along Peter creek, and again in 1896 in similar situations along 

 the Clearwater river. 



Lupinus Ht 



but I have seen it only at the two places mentioned, and nothing 

 like it seems to be in any of the herbaria, so far as I know. It * s 

 related to L. lepidus in a general way, but very distinct, as is app»' 



