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scarcely shorter than the lower, tendril about an inch long then 

 3-forked and forks long; stipules lanceolate-subulate to linear- 

 subulate, i to 2 lines wide, 4 lines long, with linear lobe at base 

 3 lines long; stems sharply angled but not winged, nodes about 

 3 inches apart; peduncles 6 inches long, floriferous on the upper 

 }i, slender, ascending; flowers 30 to 40, deep purple, 3 to 4 

 lines long, reflexed, narrow; calyx very oblique, upper part not 

 over a line long, with small teeth, the lower 2 to 3 lines long in- 

 cluding the subulate-linear teeth, at length hyaline; pods about 

 an inch long, 3 lines wide, obliquely acute at both ends, oblong, 

 smooth, 2 to 3-seeded, 6-ovuled and the seeds placed along the 

 middle of the pod toward the ventral suture; pod pendent, flat, 

 stipe a line long; whole plant minutely appressed silky except 

 the pods; leaves sessile. This differs from V. villosa Roth, in 

 10 not 7 pairs of contiguous leaflets; lanceolate to linear, not 

 ovate stipules; long peduncles, not yellow-villous; small flowers; 

 pods with 2 to 3, not 6 seeds. It does not branch above. Mr. 

 Greene rather hastily identifies this with V. cracca L. and his 

 original description is very faulty. Its true relation to V. cracca 

 is yet to be determined. 



Lupinus pinetorum n. sp. Straggling perennial from a 

 rather woody, underground, branching, slender stem, proper 

 stems only a few inches long, slender, flexuous, with lower nodes 

 very short and uppermost rarely over 3 inches long, subdecum- 

 bent and widely spreading, simple, distinctly pubescent through- 

 out with short appressed hairs except the glabrous upper side of 

 leaflets and the silky calyx, stems rather few, not appearing 

 tufted; lower petioles 4 to 8 inches long, tapering, with small, 

 subulate, inconspicuous stipules; leaflets about 7, 1 to 2 inches 

 long, cuneate-oblanceolate, with thick mid-nerves, acute or apic- 

 ulate, 3 to 5 lines wide; flowers in nearly sessile sparsely flow- 

 ered; racemes a foot long fruiting pedicels stout, 3 lines long, 

 horizontal; flowers large, purple, upper lobe of calyx deeply 

 cleft and much shorter than the lower; pods appressed-shaggy, 

 l% inches long, 4 lines wide, blunt and rounded at both ends, 

 about 6 seeded, seeds flat and large. The peduncles are very 



