130 - LEGUMINOSE. | LUPINUS. 
ULEX, 
§ 2 PLaryearros,Watson Proe. Am: Acad. vill, 588., Flowers 
in terminal racemes. Sides of the upper petal strongly reflexed. 
Ovary 2-ovuled. Cotyledons broad and clasping after germina- 
tion, usually long-persistent. Annuals with cuneate-oblong or 
obovate leaflets and persistent bracts; pods oyate. 
_L, luteolus Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. v, 38. Stout, 1—2 feet high, usual- 
ly much branched: pubescence short, appressed, rather silky: stipules 
setaceous, villous: leaflets usually 7, cuneate-oblong, an inch long or 
more, the petioles but little longer: racemes short, dense; peduncles ex- 
ceeding the leaves; bracts linear-setaceous, villous; flowers yellow, 6 
lines long; upper lip of the calyx narrow, about a line long, lower lip 4 
lines long, upper petal oblong, shorter than the others: pods villous: 
seeds 2 lines long, black, rough, Southern Oregon to California. 
L. microcarpus Sims Bot. Mag. t, 2413. Erect and branching, 5—18 
inches high, vitious with long spreading hairs: stipules long-setaceous: 
leaves mostly approximate upon the stem, on elongated petioles; leaf- 
lets 7—11, usually 9, cuneate-oblong, 1—2 inches long, obtuse and mu- 
cronulate or emarginate, smooth above: flowers in close verticils, on 
pedicels 1—2 lines long; bracts subulate-setaceous, equalling the calyx 
or shorter; calyx dense villous, lower lip large 3-toothed, the middle 
tooth small; upper lip very short, sub-scarious, 2-toothed; petals 
purple to white or cream-color, 6--7 lines long, the keel slightly ciliate: 
pods vilious, 8 lines long. On moist slopes, from the Columbia river to 
southern California. 
L. pusillus Pursh Fl. 468. Rather stout, 3—10 inches high, diffusely 
branched from the base, hirsute with long spreading hairs; leaflets 
usually 5, cuneate-oblong or oblanceolate, 9—15 lines long, acute or 
obtuse, nearly glabrous above, about half as long as the petioles: 
racemes short-peduncled or sessile, not exceeding the leaves, 2—3 inches 
long: pedicels 2—8 lines long; upper lip of the calyx 2-cleft, the lower 
subentire; petals purple or rose-color, 4 lines long, equal: seeds nearly 
2 lines broad. On sanuy plains, eastern Washington to the Missouri 
river 2nd New Mexico. oe 
L. brevicaulis Watson Bot. King 53, t, 7. Stems short or nearly 
wanting: leaves 1—4 inches high, pubescent with spreading hairs; 
leaflets mostly 7, cuneate-obovate, 5—7 lines long, rounded at the apex: 
racemes dense, 1—2 inches long, the peduncles nearly equalling the 
leaves: upper lip of the calyx very short or truncate, scarious, the low- 
er one subentire: petals blue, 83—5 lines long, equal. Southeastern Ore- 
gon to Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. 
3 ULEX L. Gen. n. 881. (FourRzE.) 
Compact therny shrubs with simple prickle-pointed leaf like 
organs without stipules, and scattered yellow flowers. Calyx of 
two nearly. or quite distinct yellowish sepals. Petals short, un- 
guiculate, subequal the upper one not reflexed. Stamens 10, 
monadelphous; anthers in. two sets, the outer ones short and 
versatile, the inner long and basifixea. Ovyary sessile, aiiany- 
ovuled; style smooth, ineurved; stigma capitate. 
U. Europaeus L. Sp. 741. A dense shrub 3—6 feet high, the numerous 
short branches villous, ending in a short spine: lower leaves some-. 
times lanceolate, more commonly reduced to spines, 6 lines long: flow- 
ers 6 lines long, yelloay, solitary in the axil of a spinescent leaf, often 
crowded on the short. branchlets: calyx villous; upper petal ovate, 
obtuse, hardly erect: pods feyw-sceded, but little longer than the calyx. | 
