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am confident belong to the same species with ours. It is a very handsome plant, with 

 flowers as large as in L. perennis, and apparently light blue. A characteristic of the 

 species is the saccate, almost spurred, base of the calyx, which is quite as conspicuous as 

 in L. laxiflorus, next to which it should be placed. The same plant was gathered near 

 the sources of the Platte in the first expedition of Col. Fremont, and forms part of what 

 was called L. ornatus in the Botanical catalogue of that expedition. 



167. Same as the last (and growing with it), with the flowers light rose-color. — 

 The flowers in the dried specimen appear to be ochroleueous; perhaps it is the L. argen- 

 teus of Pursh (which has not been really identified) ; but it cannot be the L. argenteus 

 of Agardh.* 



fl69. L. decumbens, Torr. ; with the leaflets glabrous above; the flowers appar- 

 ently pale, as large as those of no. 166 and no. 167. Pofii Creek, in low prairies. 



168. L. laxiflorus, Dougl. ? with oblong-lanceolate, almost entirely glabrous 

 leaflets. — Valley of Santa Fe Creek, in the mountains ; June, July. 



• 170. Thermopsis Montana, Nutt. in Torr. #• Gray, Fl. \. p. 388. Foot of moun- 

 tains, in low, moist places, valley of Santa Fe Creek, five miles above Santa Fe ; May. 

 June. — The wings and keel often acquire a blue tinge in drying ; as in specimens from 

 Oregon, by Mr. Spalding, of T. fabacea, Hook! in PI. Geijer, which are not well to be 

 distinguished from this species. 



+ 171. Sophora sericea, Nutt. Gen. 1. p. 280. Prairies, from the Mora River to 

 Cold Spring, on the Cimarron ; August. 



t 172. Cercis Canadensis, Linn. Council Grove ; in the creek bottom. 

 173. Hoffmanseggia Jamesii, Torr. $• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 393. Near the ford of the 

 Cimarron River ; Aug. — In ripe fruit, with some flowers. 



1 174. Cassia Cham^crista, Linn. Cimarron River ; August. 



1 175. C. Marilandica, Linn. Council Grove; August. 



t 176. Kentrophyta Montana, Nutt. in Torr. #• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 353. Gravelly 

 hill-sides, Santa Fe ; June. 

 1 177. Schrankia angustata, Torr. $• Gray, Fl. 1 . p. 400. Council Grove ; August. 



178. Desmanthus brachylobus, Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4. p. 358. (Darling- 

 tonia, DC., Torr. #• Gray, I. c.) On the Cimarron River, &c. 



179. D. Jamesii, Torr. fy Gray, Fl. 1. p. 402. Santa Fe to Rayado Creek, on the 

 route to Bent's Fort ; in gravelly soil. 



* No. 390 of Geyer's Oregon Collection was given as Lupinus albicaulis by Hooker, probably by a slip of 

 the pen, as my specimens are L. leucophyllus, Lindl, with one of L. sericeus ? 



