142 PITTONIA. 



From Monterey southward near the sea ; but also on 

 gravelly hills of the Mt. Diablo range, near Byron, and 

 perhaps still farther northward. Very easily recognizable 

 by the remarkable confir-uration of the seeds. 



13. L, HIRTELLUS. Stoutisli, depressed, canescently hir- 

 sutulous, not at all strigose : leaflets 5 t 7, cuneate-oblong 

 or -obovate, obtuse : peduncles stoutish, bracted, surpassing 

 the leaves, 2-flowered : pod straight, an inch long, subterete, 

 7- to 10-seeded : seeds quadrate, notched at the hilum only, 

 the surface faintly rugose and coarsely tuberculate. 



High ridges of the mountains north of Hetch-Hetchy 

 Valley in the Sierra Nevada, California ; collected by Messrs- 

 Chesnut and Drew, 29 June, 1889. A very distinct species, 

 perhaps not rare, and very likely to have been confounded 

 with L, strigosus in the herbaria ; though the pubescence is 

 very different, and the seeds strikingly so. 



^ Perenyiials. 



li. L. niGiDUS. 



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(1849) ; Gray, Proc. Acad. Philad. 18G3, 348. Stems rigid 

 and liexuous, with long iuternodes, herbage silky-canescent : 

 leaflets 3 to 5^ cuneate-oblong or obovate, crow^ded on a very 

 short rachis, the whole leaf subsessile : peduncles elongated, 

 rigid, 1- to 3-flowered; supporting a small 1- to 3-foliolate 

 bract : corolla \ inch long ; calyx-tube cylindrical, 3 lines 

 long : the subulate teeth not as long : pod thickish, subterete, 

 an inch long. 



Pounded on a specimen of Coulter said to have come from 

 Monterey ; but the only plants answering well to the descrip- 

 tion are from the extreme soutli of the State and the pen- 

 insula beyond. 



15. L. pubeeulUs. IIosackiapuhernlay^enihA.Q. Branched 

 from the base and decumbent, appressed-pubescent : leaflets 

 4 or 5, oblong or linear, crowded as in the last : peduncles 

 exceeding the leaves, 1- or 2-flowered, the bract 1- to 3-folio- 



