ol-es, ovate, an inch long, with a few 

 co-arse angular teeth, or the basal ones 

 nearly entire: fls in strict spiciform ra- 

 cemes, at length elongated and loose: cor 

 campanulate, 3-4 lines high, little exceed- 

 ing the unequal fil and short cleft style 

 included: capsule oblong, 3 lines high, ex- 

 ceeded by the sepals; seeds numerous 

 (40-50), light brown, deeply pitted and 

 variously angled or rounded." Parish, 

 bot gaz 13:37. Mohave, LA Co. 

 ABUTILON AURANTIACUM S. Wats. 



"Woody at base, the herbaceous stems 

 %-2 high, pubescent and somewhat vil- 

 lous: leaves densely soft-tomentose, vel- 

 vety and whitish, round-cordate, acute, 

 the rounded basal lobes overlapping, un- 

 equally serrate, \'z-Wz' broad, shorter 

 than the petioles: fl. axillary and solitary, 

 on villous-pubsecent pedicels, which are 

 as long as the petioles and mostly jointed 

 near the base or the lower above the mid- 

 dle: calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute; 

 corolla bright orange, 6-9" long: calyx 

 and fr. villous-pubescent; carpels 10, 

 abruptly short-beaked, 3-seeded, 4" 

 long, about equalling the calyx. On Todos 

 Santos Bay, Lower California, by C. C. 

 Parry, January, 1883, and at Tia Juana, by 

 C. R. Orcutt, in May of the same year."- 

 S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., xx. 357 

 (Feb. 21, 1S85). 

 ABUTILON CRISPUM Sweet. 



Very finely tormentose: branches very 

 slender, elongated: Ivs cordate, acutish 

 or acuminate, crenate. 1-3 in. long; upper 

 small and nearly sessile: fls solitary, 

 small, y, on slender axillary pedicles as 

 long as the Ivs and jointed near the top; 

 carpels about 12, membranaceous, in- 

 flated, rounded above. 2-valved to the 

 base. 4-5-seeded. at length % in. long. 

 CantillesIFla. Widely distributed through 

 the tropics. 

 ABUTILON LEMMONI S. Watson. 



"Perennial. the stout half-woody 

 branching stems 1-2 high, hoary through- 

 out with a very dense short stellate 

 pubescence, its stellate character scarce- 

 ly perceptible on the calyx: leaves cor- 

 date to cordate-lanceolate, acute or 

 slightly acuminate, dentate, the blade 

 usually 1' or less (sometimes 2') long, 

 about equalling or shorter than the slen- 

 der petioles, slightly greener above: pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, shorter than 

 the leaves, joined near the top: calyx 

 with broadly ovate acute lobes; corolla 

 y. or orange, small (3-4'' long): carpels 

 about 9. acute. 4-5" long, finely pubescent, 

 3-seeded, equalling or a little exceeding 

 the enlarged calyx." S. Watson, Proc. 

 Am. Acad.. xx. 357-8 (Feb. 21. 1885). 

 LATHYRUS SPLENDENS Kellogg. 



"Pride of California," distinguished for 

 its profusion of large brilliant rose red to 

 crimson flowers borne in clusters of 10 or 

 more the second year from seed. The 

 most magnificent of the native climbing 

 plants of West America, Described as 

 half-hardy in New Jersey. It stands 

 frost and snows in the mountains of 

 Sonthern and Lower California, up to 

 4,000 feet altitude, where it festoons the 

 shrubbery with its wealth of color. 



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LATHYRUS ALEFELDI White. 



"Perennial; glabrous or sparingly pub- 

 escent throughout; stem rather stout, 

 flexuous. quadrangular, wingless, scarce- 

 ly striate between the angles; stipules 

 semi-cordate, acumuinate, thick and 

 strongly reticulated, one-third to one-half 

 as long as the Ifts, and often nearly as 

 broad, the lower lobe very coarsely acu- 

 minately tothed, Ifts, 6-10, alternate or in 

 l>airs, oblong to ovate or obovate, obtuse, 

 frequently retuse, thick and stiff, promin- 

 ently reticulated, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, 1.5-4 cm long, * to one-third as 

 broad; tendrils long, stout and trifid; 

 peduncle 6-10 fl'd. twice as long as the 

 corresponding if; fls large 2-3 cm long: 

 cor p (?), pedicels longer than 

 the calyx tube, calyx dilated, pu- 

 bescent, particularly on the margin; up- 

 pe- calyx-teeth broadly triangular, acute, 

 lateral pair oblong-la,nceolate. and the 

 lowest coriaceous, subulate, the 3 lower 

 teeth equalling the tube, the upper short- 

 er, legume flat, sparingly pubescent, 

 about S-seeded. May." White, Torr cl b 

 21:499. S D. 



Parish, Erythea 6:88. Throughout SD 

 Co. 200-5 .500ft alt. clambering over bushes 

 on hillsides. 



LATHYRUS VIOLACEUS Greene. 



"Apparently glabrous, but under a lens 

 sparsely short-hairy throughout: stems 

 slender, shrubby below. 4-8 ft high, acute- 

 ly angled: Ifts about 12. elliptical, obtuse 

 and with slender deflexed mucro, mar- 

 gins delicately crisped: peduncles sur- 

 passing the Ivs. many fl'd and rather 

 dense: fl about 1 8 lines long; lateral pair 

 of calyx-teeth oblong-lanceolate, much 

 longer than the tube, the lowest one 

 eob ailing these in length but only one 

 V 2 as wide, the short upper pair slightly 

 connivent at the tip and forming a semi- 

 elliptical sinus; pet at first red-purple, 

 changing to violet blue, the banner very 

 broadly obcordate, the sides only slightly 

 recurving, the middle displaying, about 10 

 nearly parallel veins, some of them 

 simple, others forked near the summit, 

 al! running through to the upper margin 

 of the organ, none running into meshes, 

 \\ings a trifle shorter than the keel, al- 

 most paraMel with it. not meeting above 

 it." Greene. Erythea 1:105. Mts LA Co. 



LATHYRUS LAETIFLORUS Greene. 



"Somewhat shrubby habit of L. viola- 

 ceus and as tall; the more scanty short 

 hairs straight and appressed: of firmer 

 texture, elliptic-lanceolate: peduncles ex- 

 ceeding the Ivs, loosely many fl'd about 11 

 lines long: lateral pair of calyx-teeth 

 broadly subulate, not longer than (scarce- 

 ly as long as) the tube, lowest one subu- 

 late, rather longer than the tube, the 

 very short upper pair connivent, the tips 

 almost meeting, forming a broadly obo- 

 vate or nearly orbicular sometimes almost 

 closed sinus: pet nearly white (faintly 

 flesh colored), the banner obcordate. with 

 sides abruptly reflexed, each side with a 

 concavity, the middle with few divergent 

 short and simple red veinlets none of 

 which reach the border or anastomose: 

 wings meeting and concealing the keel 



