14 SMITH: STUDIES IN THE GENUS LUPINUS ° 
Differs from the typical form in that the leaflets turn black in 
drying, hair-covering less conspicuous, flowers smaller, lower lip 
of the calyx but slightly subsaccate, and the 
wings ciliate above near the base. 
CALIFORNIA. Ventura County: Griffins, 
Mt. Pinos, July, 1902, A. D. E. Elmer 4006 
(Type, US 466205; type-duplicates, DS, NY). 
Kern County: hills, near the summit of Tejon 
Pass, on desert slope, 27 May, 1914, S. B. 
Parish 9256 (UC). 
This variety merits special study in the 
field, with collection of considerably more 
material. It is very different from Elmer’s 
L. glareosus, taken at the same locality, but 
lem shares with that variety the peculiar char- 
Fic. 8. Luprnus acter of the leaflets turning black in drying. 
SUBVEXUS NIGRESCENS The specimens are labeled L. microcarpus. 
C. P. Smith. A. D. 
Whew joes eG 4c. Lupinus subvexus fluviatilis var. nov. 
[Fig. 9.] 
Eramosus vel ramosus ad basin ramis suberectis vel panden- 
tibus, 10-25 cm. altus, conspicue villosus; foliis paulo congestis 
(NOE 
Fic. 9. Lupinus SUBVEXUS FLUVIATILISC. P, Smith. Fritillaria Club (US 205559). 
cum planta humilis eramosaque est, plus patentbus cum planta 
ramosa est; pilis 1-1.5 mm. longis; petiolis 4-10 cm. longis, vil- 
losis, pilis saepe paulo plus 2 mm. longis; foliolis 5-10, 15-25 mm. 
longis, saepe obovatis vel spatulatis nonnumquam oblanceolatis, 
3-5, plus minusve appositis; floris ad anthesin pandentibus, postea 
-ascendentibus vel suberectis, 14-16 mm. longis; pedicellis paulo 
plus 1 mm. longis, plurimum gracilibus; bracteis verticilli humil- 
limi calyce prope aequantibus longitudine, tarde vel nequaquam 
