308 PITTONIA. 
Lupinus voLcANICUS. Tufted low perennial, the simple 
ascending sparsely leafy stems only 4 to 8 inches high; the 
whole plant rather copiously hirsute-hairy : petioles slender, 
mostly about twice the length of the leaves; leaflets 7 to 9, 
oblong-cuneiform to oblanceolate, of thin texture, obtuse or 
acute, the largest about 1 inch long: flowers few and scat- 
tered in a short raceme, its peduncle not exceeding the 
leaves: corolla blue, less than 4 inch long, the banner rather 
small; half the length of the keel consisting of a stout 
straight beak-like naked dark-purple apex, the lower un- 
colored and subscarious part ciliolate. 
In volcanic sand, at 8,000 feet altitude on Mt. Rainier, 
Washington, C. V. Piper, August, 1895. Somewhat allied 
to L. saxosus, Howell, but the pubescence, floral characters, 
and even mode of growth quite different. 
SAXIFRAGA RADULINA. Near S. Virginiensis; leaves ovate, 
oval, and ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 inches long, somewhat 
crenately, or often more sharply and saliently dentate, short- 
petiolate, roughish and subcinereous on both faces with a 
minute appressed but rather rigid pubescence of short-jointed 
hairs: scapes 3 to 6 inches high, almost glabrous, ending in 
a short subpyramidal thyrsus of white flowers: calyx-lobes 
triangular, obtuse, dark-purplish: petals spatulate, obtuse; 
filaments stout, terete, about equalling the petals. 
Poreupine River, Alaska, collected in 1891, by J. Heury 
Turner. As to inflorescence near the Old World s. nivalit 
but foliage wholly characteristic. 
VERBENA HANSENI. Stout, erect, 2 or 3 feet high, simple 
below, , repeatedly trichotomous at the leafless summit: leaves 
oblscüng lale and lanceolate, 3 inches long, obtuse or acutish, 
serrate, and somewhat coarsely and incisely so, from below the 
middle, the kc pari suede e: entire, strigoşe-pubescent 
on both faces, b branchesofthecymose — 
panicle minutely Mene except on the sharp angles, 2 
