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raiso, Cuming 749; near Valparaiso, Cuming 750; Santiago, 
Phillipt 6571; Conception, Germazn, 1856 and 1857. 
The plants which come nearest to these in the United States 
are from the vicinity of Pacific Grove, Monterey county, Cali- 
fornia, and it is from these that the description is taken. 
Annual, about 1dm. high, simple or with few to many 
stems from the base, suberect or spreading, clothed throughout 
with a dense white pubescence: lowest leaves on petioles about 
20 mm. long, with obovate-cuneate emarginate, dentate leaflets; 
cauline leaves more inclined to be larger and elliptical; lower 
stipules narrow, with a long acumination, becoming broader and 
shorter towards the summit of the stems: heads in young plants 
appearing among the leaves, but later elongating so as to exceed 
them, semiglobose, not conical, in pairs, though in young plants 
obscurely so, sessile or subsessile, subtended by broad stipules 
and short petioled, usually narrow leaves: uppermost internodes 
usually very long, two or three times the length of the lower 
ones: flowers when young short and concealed by the calyx 
teeth, later developing so as to slightly extend beyond them: 
calyx tube and teeth of nearly equal length, tube 2mm., teeth 
3mm., both densely covered with a soft pubescence: vexillum 
elliptical, 6mm. long, 2mm. wide, purple, tipped with white, 
or in some specimens all creamy or dull colored: ovary 2-ovuled: 
style 31mm. long: legume large for the size of the flower, oval, 
3mm. long, slightly hairy at apex, 1-seeded: seeds 2mm. long, 
ovoid, brownish-yellow, strongly marked with deep purple. 
The following collections are considered under Macraez: 
Monterey county: Pacific Grove, Kennedy, May, 1907; be- 
tween Point Pinos and Pacific Grove, Heller 6744; Del Monte, 
Fleller 6664. 
San Mateo county: San Pedro, Elmer g812 (type number 
of 7: bicephalum Elmer). 
Santa Clara county; Mt. Hamilton, Elmer 4673. 
San Francisco county: Presidio, Heller, June 17, 1902; with- 
out locality, Mchener and Biolettt, April, 1892. 
An examination of the type sheet of 7: Macraez (see plate 
5) in Hooker’s herbarium at Kew shows that the sheet mnst 
