NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 159 
y SIDALCEA REPTANS. Stems slender, simple, 2 feet high 
or more, several from a tap-root, but all decumbent at base 
and rooting at the nodes, the leaves mostly from the basal 
horizontal part of the stem, small, but on greatly elongated 
yery hirsute petioles, the lamina scarcely 2 inches broad, 
orbieular, the sinus nearly closed, the margin deeply and 
coarsely crenate, or lobed, the teeth or lobes obtuse, mucro- 
nate: inflorescence simple, loosely spicate, stellate-tomentose: 
calyx-segments triangular-lanceolate: corolla nearly an 
inch long, deep rose-purple: carpels not depressed, beaked, 
strongly favose-reticulate on the back. 
In marshy ground, Panther Creek, Amador County, Cali- 
fornia, 1892, Geo. Hansen. i? i 
Lupinus rULCRATUS. Perennial, erect, the stems slender 
and rather brittle, 2 or 3 feet high, branching above, the 
stem and branches clothed scantily with a soft and wholly 
spreading pubescence, the leaves somewhat villous: stipules 
of all except the lowest cauline leaves wholly herbaceous and 
leaf-like, oblanceolate or lanceolate, 3 lines long or more and 
spreading: leaflets 7 to 9, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, 1 inch 
long or less, on petioles not much longer: flowers indis- 
tinetly whorled, in lax subsessile racemes: calyx hirsutu- 
lous, gibbous at base but hardly saecate: corolla only 4 or 
9 lines long, dark-purple, the banner shorter than the other 
petals: keel slenderly falcate, naked: pods apparently small, 
densely hirsute. 
Fresno Co., California, at considerable elevations in the 
mountains; eollected in 1890, by Mrs. L. A. Peckinpah. 
Species easily distinguished from all its allies by its wholly 
- herbaceous and therefore unusually conspicuous stipules. 
Lupinus ErMERr L. silvestris, Elmer Drew, Bull. Torr. 
Club, xvi. 156 (1889), not of Lamarck (1778). In the Flora 
ranciscana I placed this as a variety of L. albicaulis ; but 
Prrronta, Vol. IL ———— Pages 159-166. Issued 8 May, 1897. 
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