192 SMITH: STUDIES IN THE GENUS LUPINUS 
This description has been a puzzle to me since I first 
studied it in 1910, and no solution to the matter suggested itself 
until recently, when it was my pleasure to examine, at the Gray 
Herbarium, one of Kellogg’s specimens distributed by himself as 
his L. palustris, and collected 
5mm. in April, 1869. This is in flower 
only, but it is the same as L. 
densiflorus Agardh, and agrees 
with Kellogg’s description, as 
far as same applies at all to a 
Platycarpos species. It may be 
Fic. 34. Lupinus pENsIFLorus pal- that Kellogg’s type-collection 
ustTrRis (Kell.) C. P. Smith. <A. Kellogg, 
Apr., 1869 (G), not dissected. 
included some very peculiar 
pathological specimens; but I 
am more inclined to believe that he actually confused flowering 
specimens of this variety of L. densiflorus with fruiting specimens 
of a quite different species, perhaps the robust annual now 
known as L. affinis Agardh. 
However, as attested by Bentham himself, Agardh’s L. den- 
siflorus can not be accepted as the typical form of the species, and 
it seems to me that this easily recognizable form, as a variety, 
should bear Kellogg’s name. 
Another specimen in the Gray Herbarium calls for special 
attention, said specimen being the one labelled ‘‘L. Menziesii, 
var. aurea, Kellogg and Brannan. Jr., San Joaquin River, 22 April 
1870." As may be seen by referring to the original description 
(see page 177), Kellogg’s type is said to have been taken at 
“Deer Valley, near Antioch, San Joaquin River, April 22, 1869.” 
One might easily assume that the discrepancy in date, 1869 vs. 
1870, is a mere clerical error, overlooked by the person who wrote 
out the label in question. The specimen, however, according to 
the descriptions, is not Kellogg’s var. aurea, but is the same as his 
L. palustris. As to the locality, Antioch and vicinity, my cita- 
tions will show that Davy also collected var. palustris at Antioch 
in 1895, and that Miss Eastwood and Mrs. Brandegee each col- 
lected L. Menziesii (probably var. aurea) at Antioch in 1893 and 
1907, respectively. Still a third variety of L. densiflorus and also 
me _ the typical L. subvexus have been taken at Antioch. I accordingly 
