MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES. 65 
long: raceme short-peduncled, few-flowered, the whorls often 
2—3 only: flowers large ; calyx-lips narrow, entire, subequal ; 
corolla a half inch long, the banner and wings broad and ob- 
tuse, the former reflexed, very pale blue or white, wings.and 
keel blue, or else the whole corolla pale yellow ; keel strongly 
ciliate from base almost to apex: pods 14—2 inches long, 
pubescent, 6—8-seeded. 
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Confined to grassy northward slopes near the sea: very 
plentiful in such localities in the neighborhood of the Presidio 
and U. S. Marine Hospital, San Francisco; also on the high- 
lands back of Pt. Pietras twenty miles southward, flowering 
from April to June. 
The short, very leafy branches of this decidedly handsome 
lupine are nearly prostrate, from a hard thoroughly woody 
basal stem, the short racemes alone rising erect. "Very differ- 
ent though it is in its appearance from the common yellow 
tree lupine of the San Francisco sand hills, this is its nearest 
ally, and the relationship is evinced by occasional hybrid | 
plants. The flowers in the new species are quite as large and 
of the same form, but the racemes are unlike, consisting not 
rarely of a single whorl, though sometimes made up of four 
orfive. Ithink the species must have been more or less im- 
perfectly known to the compilers of the Botany of the Geo- 
logical Survey, but am unable to identify it with any of the 
forms noted in that work. 
LuPINUs PACHYLOBUS. Annual, a foot high, stoutish and 
with a few ascending branches from the base: hirsute 
throughout: petioles slender, elongated ; leaflets 5—1, linear, 
1 inch long : racemes on stout peduncles, whorls 9—4: flowers 
24 lines long, on pedicels of less than a line, deep blue; calyx- 
lips broad, the upper one notched and very short, the lower 
entire and twice as long: pod 1} inches long, 4—5 lines wide, 
hirsute, 4—6 seeded. 
Briones Hills, east of San Pablo Creek, Contra Costa 
