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NOVITATES OCCIDENTALES.—X. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
Vicia semicinecta. Stoutish, very leafy, probably several 
feet high, the stem very prominently striate-angled and 
puberulent: leaflets 20 to 94, approximate, about 1 inch long, 
oblong-linear, mucronate, glabrous above, beneath silky- 
puberulent: peduncles far surpassing the leaves, the flowers 
probably in a short and dense raceme: pods obliquely 
oblong-linear, less than 7 inch long, glaucescent, not blacken- 
ing in maturity, few-seeded: seeds globose, 14 lines thick, 
dull black, nearly half encircled by the hilum. 
A most interesting species, manifestly allied to V. gigan- 
tea, but pods and seeds widely different; the flowers 
unknown. Collected in southeastern Oregon, on Crane 
Creek, by Mrs. R. M. Austin, 1893. 
Lupinus Tidestromii. Stems slender, decumbent, a foot 
long, from fleshy-fibrous perennial yellow roots; herbage 
silvery-silky throughout with a dense appressed pubescence: 
leaflets mostly 5 only, oblanceolate, acute: racemes rather 
short, on long and slender peduncles, the distinct whorls of 
flowers about 4 or 5: calyx villous rather than silky: corolla 
4 inch long, blue except a white spot on the banner, this 
changing to red; petals subequal; keel quite narrow, naked 
except a few villous hairs on the margin towards the apex. 
This is the L. littoralis of my Flora Franciscana and 
Bay Region Manual; though I never felt atall confident of its 
being the true L. littoralis. An examination of the originals | 
of that species has placed it beyond all doubt that this plant 
of the middle Californian shores is entirely distinct. The 
description is drawn from specimens collected recently by 
Mr. Ivar Tidestrom, at Pacific Grove, near Monterey. 
Trifolium Hanseni. Perennial by many slender inter- 
lacing roots and rootstocks, the almost filiform sparingly 
leafy stems only 2 to 4 inches high: lowest leaflets from 
Eryruea, Vol. IIL, No. 2, [1 February, 1895. ] 
