NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 171 
desert regions farther south and east; but in habit it is more 
like the Californian E. crocea, though more erect, and more 
glaucous. The long filiform anthers are a good mark. 
/ POTENTILLA SAXOSA, Lemmon in herb. Perennial, slender, 
a foot high, pubescent and viscid-glandular: leaves narrow, 
pinnate, the leaflets in 5—7 pairs, flabelliform, $ inch long or 
less, and quite as broad, pedately cleft to the middle into 
oblong acutish segments: cymes loose, flowers small and 
inconspicuous; calyx rotate, the segments scarcely 2 lines 
long; petals yellow, spatulate, acutish, 1 line long; stamens 
25—30 ; filaments slender-subulate ; anthers roundish, rather 
broader than long: pistils 8—10. 
Crevices of rocks, in the San Rafael Mountains, Lower 
California, 6 May, 1888, Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon. 
VLUPINUS CAPITATUs. Annual, a span to a foot high, parted 
above the base into numerous short widely spreading or almost 
divarieate branches; whole plant clothed with soft spreading 
white hairs: leaflets 5—7, oblong-oblanceolate, acute: racemes 
few-flowered, short and capitate-congested, at the ends of the 
greatly elongated naked peduncles : upper ealyx-lip deeply 
notehed, lower entire, much longer and nearly equalling 
the l inch long blue corolla; banner rather narrow, with a 
small yellow spot in the middle ; keel naked : pod quadrate- 
oblong, 2-seeded. 
From Young's Ranch, seven miles north of Flagstaff in the 
northern part of Arizona ; obtained by Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon 
in 1884 ; species singulariy well marked by its long-peduneled 
capitate flower-clusters. Only one good specimen was obtained, 
the others being very young and small, and not well exhibit- 
ing the most prominent characteristics of the species. 
LUPINUS POLYCARPUS. A foot or two high, rather stout, 
rigid, with several or many ascending branches: stem and 
lower face of leaves pubescent: leaflets 7, somewhat fleshy, 
oblanceolate, an inch long, glabrous above: flowers very 
