SMITH: STUDIES IN THE GENUS LuPINUS—VII 205 
margin near the point, a character not shared by any other group 
of North American annual lupines; however, two of the forms- 
lack this ciliation. The upper surface of the leaves is almost 
always with at least a few short hairs. 
2. LUPINUS NIVEUs Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 126. 1876. [F1G. 78.] 
pparently annual or biennial with pace petioled 
cotyledons, erect, or dm. tall, each well above the base, 
densely velvety tomentose above : e cotyledons, “which are 
fleshy, glabrous, the blades about 20 mm. long, 12 mm. wide: 
leaves velvety on both sides, netioles 6-8 cm. long, leaflets 
eight or nine, rounded or angle so at the apex, 30-40 mm. long, 
e: peduncles 5-8 cm. long, racemes 8-12 cm. long, 
loosely euedleeee: bracts lecture linear, 5-8 mm. long; 
flowers 10 mm. long, spreading or eae pedicels 4-6 mm 
long; calyx gree ebracteolate, the lips ahs in Bose 
about 5 mm. long, the upper cleft or bifid, over 4 mm. wide, 
the lower bluntly nese barely 3 mm. wide: Setaly broad, 
deep blue, banner suborbicular, about 10 X IO mm., greenish 
Fic. 78. Lupinus NivEus Wats. E. Palmer 861 (G, ime 
fem: 
This is a very distinct, isolated, insular species not closely 
related to any other known species; but as I see it, better lined 
up with L. nanus, at least for the present. For a long time 
I was misled by Watson’s clause, “‘allied to L. leucophyllus”’, 
ome nk had difficulty in classifying this plant. 
WER CALIFORNIA: Guadelupe Island, 1875, E. Palmer 25. 
oe tes E. Palmer 861 (G, US); 1893, F. Franceschi (US). 
My thanks are especially due to Miss Alice Eastwood for 
the use of unpublished notes and to Dr. J. H. packard for 
important bibliographical help. 
The abbreviations used herein in the citation of specimens 
may be identified by reference to the following list: 
