I^ifoli^irn. LEGUMINOS^. jor 



1. c — Z. Memieui, Agarclh, Synopsis, 2; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5019. L Memiesu 

 var. aurea, Kellogg, 1. c. v. 16. b w. ^. Memiesu, 



From the Sacramento Valley southward ; frequent. 



41. L luteolus Kellogg. Rather slender, 1 or 2 feet high : pubescence short 

 appressed, ra her silky, the bracts and pod villous : stipules short/ leaves scatLred' 

 on short petioles; leaflets usually 7, cuneate-oblong, an inch long obtuse or 

 acute, sometimes smooth above : bracts linear-setaceous, exceeding the cayx flowers 

 as m Uio last; the petals pa o-yellow, six lines long. - Proc. 'calif. Acad, v 38 

 L. /Sridf/em, Gray ; Watson, 1. c. 638. 

 Sacramento Valley (BHdjcs) ■ Nnpa Valley {Greene) ; Mcndocir.o Co., Bolander, Kellogg. 



* * Low : flotvers scattered in the racemes : bracts shorter than the calyx. 

 42 L-pusiUus, Pursh. Rather stout, 3 to 10 inches high, hirsute ^yith long 

 spreading hairs : leaflets mostly 5, cuneate-oblong or -oblanceokte, 4 to ll inch J 

 long, acute or obtuse nearly smootli above, about half as long as the petioli r? 

 ceme. 2 or 3 inches long, nearly sessile ; pedicels 2 or 3 lines long : upper caWx-lTn 

 2-cleft : petals purple or rose-color, four lines long : pod half an inch long or more 

 seed nearly two lines broad. - Flora, i. 468 ; Watson, 1. c. 538. ^ ' 



From the Missouri to the Columl.ia and southward, cast of the Sierra Nevada to Arizon,. «nH 

 New Mexico ; doubtless occurrhig in Northeastern California. ' ^"* ''"^ 



43^ L. brevicaulis, Watson. Less hairy, or villous with soft spreading haiis 

 1 to 6 inches high : stems often short or nearly wanting : leaflets usually 7 cunS 



obovate or oblanceolate, 5 to 8 lines long, obtuse: racemes dense, 1 or'2 iufh^ 

 It ll I^«;!""'^^«^«^"■^"•"g 7 exceeding the leaves ; pc<licols a line or two long 



upper calyx-hp scarious, very short or truncate: petals light or dark blue 3 to^' 

 inos long : pod 3 to 5 lines long : seed about a line broad. - 1 ot King Exp 53 



t. 7, & Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 539. ^ P" ^'^' 



size of the flowers, &c. A slender and caulescent vi 11 on, for!! 1 u ' ^'"^""^of pubescence, 

 son. . S. Utah and S. Colorado, which ^^^^^^^Jl^ ^^^^^^^ 



§ 3. Flowers axillary solitary : sides of the standard scarcely reflexed : keel nearly 



straight : pod ovate : ovules 2.— Lupinellus, Watson. 



**i ^/ "'l.f/alis Watson. Annual, less than an inch high, din"usely branched 



very leafy, villous: leaflets 5, cuneate-oblong, 2 lines long, obk, e: peduLlTequai: 



hng the leaves or shorter: calyx not bracteolate, the upper lip deeply deft pS 



reSTbTuse.^'rtw'^f-' ^^ ^"'^"'^P^' ^''^''^'^ oUvate,^cutrf thekeern 

 beaked, obtuse: pod two hues long. — Bot. King Exp. 54, t 7 & 1 c 



On rocky hillsides near the Big Bend of the Truckee in Northwestern Nevada.' 



6. TRIFOLIUM, Linn. Clover. 

 Calyx 5-cIeft, with nearly equal teeth, persistent. Corolla withering and persist- 

 ent; claws all more or less adnata to the stamineal tube, or the oblong or ovate 

 standard sometimes free : wings narrow ; keel short, obtuse. Stamens usually dia- 

 dephous ; anthers uniform. Style filiform. Pod small and usually enclosed in the 

 calyx, membranaceous, indehiscent, or dehiscent at the ventral suture, 1 - 6-seeded 

 -Herbs; loaves palmatoly compoun.l, witli 3 or mroly 5 to 7 usually toothed 

 eaflets; stipules adnate to the petiole; flowoi-s in capitate racemes, spikes or um- 

 bels, rarely few or solitary ; peduncles axillary or only apparently terminal. - 

 Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 127. 



