LU PINTS. 



LEG UM INGS. V. 125 



-i- -- Leaflets pubescent both sides. 



less hirsute: stipules an inch long,adnate for something less than half 

 their length, the elongated-linear acuminate free part strongly villous- 

 hirsute: petioles 35 inches long; leaflets about 9, oblanceolate, acute, 

 12 inches long: racemes short-peduncled, 010 inches long: bracts 

 villous-ciliate: lowers rather distinctly verticillate, nearly 6 lines long; 

 keel densely ciliate in the middle: ovary very villous. un Crooked 

 Creek, southern Oregon. 



L. littoralis Dougl. Bot. Reg. xiv, t. 1198. Stems slender, decum- 

 bent or ascending, 12 feet long often not succulent, leafy: pubescence 

 silky, rather thin: stipules linear; leaflets 58, oblanceolate or cun- 

 eate-oblong, 012 lines long, the petioles sometimes twice longer: 

 racemes short; bracts setaceous, exceeding the calyx: flowers blue or 

 violet, verticillate or scattered on pedicels 23 lines long: calyx- 

 large with small bracelets, upper lip 2-toothed; petals equal, 6 lines 

 long; keel ciliate: "ovules and seeds 1012: pods narrow, 15 lines 

 long. On sand dunes along the coast, Washington to California. 



_,_ +. +. Rather sparingly leafy, the lower petioles at least twice 

 as long as the leaflets: racemes loose; bracts mostly deciduous; 

 flowers large, not yellow: ovules 67, rarely fewer: leaflets glab- 

 rous above. 



L. arcticus Vv T atson 1. c. 526. "Villous or subgiabrous: stems rather 

 stout, one foot high or less, erect or ascending, simple: stipules con- 

 spicuous, acuminate: leaflets 08, cuneate-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 12 inches long, acute or obtuse, the petioles much elongated: 

 racemes 24 inches long; bracts linear about equalling the calyx, de- 

 ciduous or subpersisteut: flowers subverticillate or scattered, on slender 

 pedicels 23 lines long: bractlets wanting or caducous: calyx-lips 

 short, the upper entire or slightly toothed, the lower a little longer: 

 petals 7 8 lines long, the upper one shorter: keel naked: ovary 

 slightly hairy, 5 7-ovuled. Near the coast, Washington to the Polar 

 Sea." 



L. iiiTicromilatus Howell Eryth. i, 109. Pubescence short and ap- 

 pivssert: stems slender, decumbent, 20 inches long, 23 leaved: 

 stipules subulate: leaflets 010, obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse or 

 acutish, mucronulate, 12 inches long, sparingly pubescent on both 

 sides or glabrous above: peduncles equalling the leaves: racemes 

 23 inches long, rather dense; bracts setaceous; flowers subvert i- 

 ciliate, purple or ochroleucous; upper lip of the calyx acute, entire, 

 the lower longer, narrow, subentire: petals 45 lines *long, equal, keel 

 ciliate above the middle. On dry hillsides, eastern base of the Coast 

 Mountains in Josephine County, Oregon. 



_K .,_ +. +. Leafy and branching : the petioles not longer than the 

 leaflets: flowers large : subverticillate: bracts deciduous : ovules 6-8. 



L. Sabiiiii Dougl. Hook. Fl. i. 166. Stems erect, 2 feet high: pubes- 

 cence short, appressed, silky: stipules long, setaceous; leaflets 811 

 oblanceolate, 12 18 lines long, acute, silky both sides, racemes 6 10 

 inches long, rather dense and long-peduncled : bracts linear-setaceous; 

 pedicels 34 lines long; calyx minutely bracteolate, upper lip shortly 

 toothed, the lower longer and entire; petals yellow, equal, 78 lines 

 long, the upper one emarginate, naked, keel ciliate: ovules 7. In the 

 Blue Mountains of Oregon. 



L. albicaulis Dougl. 1. c. 165. Pubescence short, more or less villous 

 and spreading or appresssed: cespitose; stems slender, erect, 13 feet 

 high, branched, whitish: stipules linear-setaceous: racemes 412 

 inches long, short-pednncled; bracts subulate; pedicels 23 lines long: 

 calyx large, u __ lips nearly equal, upper one narrow, shortly 2-toothed, 



