26 Contribution* to Western Botany. 



stout and terminal and appear subscapose. This is a unique 

 Lupinus so far as the writer's observation goes. It grows on 

 shady and rather damp north slopes under pines, and the flowers 

 are very evanescent. Susanville, Cal , at Perkins's ranch, 4800 

 alt. June 26, 1897. 



Lupinus magnificus n. sp. Perennial, tufted, acaulescent; 



leaves clustered at the crown, slender petioles 6 to 8 inches long 



with very short and inconspicuous stipules; leaflets about 7, 1% 



inches long, narrowly elliptical, acute at both ends, about 3 lines 



wide; whole plant except the glabrous petals densely-woolly 



with slightly tangled appressed hairs and with many stouter 



hispid hairs especially on the stems and petioles, upper side of 



the leaflets greener; spikes on very stout (sulcate below) scapose 



peduncles which are leafy below and 2 to 4 ft. high and erect; 



spikes 1 to 2 feet long, dense, interrupted; flowers verticillate 



below, very many, on stout pedicels 2 lines long, about 8 lines 



long, brilliant pink-purple, wings 4 lines wide and 5 lines long, 



obtuse, banner broadly oval, a trifle shorter, with a small yellow 



spot in the center, keel acuminate-lunate and very sharp, yellow, 



as long as the wings; bracts caducous, small; calyx lobes about 



3 lines long, the lower acuminate, and the upper broad and cleft 



to the middle, proper tube a line long. Fruit not seen. This is 



the most beautiful of all the lupines. Pleasant Canyon, Pana- 



mint Mts., Cal., 5500 ft. alt. in gravel along the wash. May 6, 



1897. In some flowers the yellow spot on the banner is replaced 



by black-purple spot, most of the flowers are lighter on the 



claws. 



Lupinus magnificus var. glarecola. Whole plant long- 

 hispid, lower stipules filiform-subulate, fully 6 lines long, pedi- 

 cels slender, 4 lines long, flowers not over 5 lines long, peduncles 

 1 to 2 feet long and often branched, like the type with thick 

 crowns 1 to 2 inches wide formed of the yellow-hispid imbri- 

 cated leaf-sheaths, spikes often short-peduncled. Lone Pine, 

 Inyo Co., Cal., 6000 ft. alt., on mesas. May 14, 1897. 



Lupinus excubitus n. sp. Shrubby perennial, 3 to 4 feet 

 high; little branched below, simple above; summit of the woody 



