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green-house, though it will thrive if sown in an open border 

 in March or April. I am not aware that it has any agricult- 

 ural value. 



Barrelier's note on the habitat of his plant is of historical 

 interest; he says " it was met with once near the Colloseum, 

 upon the tops of the walls of the vineyard of Cardinal Pius, 



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towards the end of May, with mature dried and bleaching 

 spikes." 



NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.— VIL 



By Edwakd L. Gkeene, 



Lnpinns fallax. Shrubby, 3 to 5 feet high, branching 

 from above the base of the trunk-like stem, the branches as- 

 cending: branches, foliage and inflorescence all silvery with 

 a velvety-silky pubescence: stipules linear-subulate, f inch 

 long or more, deciduous; petioles hardly as long as the 7 to 

 9 linear-lanceolate acute leaflets, these 1^ to 2^ inches long: 

 racemes distinctly peduncled; bracts slender, straight, very 

 long and conspicuous before the flowering, caducous: flow- 

 ers distinctly whorled; banner and wings about equal, the 

 latter deep violet, the former with middle portion white^ 

 changing to red; keel woolly-ciliate above the middle: pods 

 spreading, velvety, about 6-seeded: seeds small, dark-colored, 

 scarcely compressed. 



This excellent new lupine is the one which in the Manual 

 I mentioned under the name and description of L, eminens; 

 but it has flowered and fruited this season in the Botanic 

 Garden at Berkeley, and proves to be so distinct from other 

 shrubby species of the genus that it is not easy to say to 

 which one it is most nearly allied- Its only known habitat 

 is Mt. Tamalpais, west of San Francisco Bay. 



Lupinus Michenerii. Herbaceous perennial, or the very 

 bases of the many stems woody-persistent during winter; 

 branches rather slender, prostrate, 2 or 3 feet long, sparsely 



