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LUPINUS BRACTEOLARIS DEPAUPERATUS O. Ktze. 



Nearly stemless, scarcely 8 cm. high. 

 Patagon. 



2. L. CRUCKSHANKSII Hook. (?). 



Glabrous. Stem erect, fistulous or flattened. Leaves subremote, with 

 6-8-leaflets ; these narrowly obovate-oblong, or elliptical, or subcuneate, 

 apically obtuse, basally acute. Racemes terminal, lax, few-flowered. 

 Flowers alternate or subverticillate, large (bluish when dry). Legume 

 oblong, or obovate-oblong, shortly pilose, 3~4-seeded. Seeds white, 

 shining. 



(Chili) ; Magellan. "The Magellan forms have long leaves with 8-12 

 leaflets, which are oblanceolate, 70 by 18 mm. ; racemes dense, 40 cm. 

 long." (Speg.) 



3. L. MICROCARPUS Sims. 



Erect annual with verticillate flowers, having sides of the vexillum reflexed; 

 ovules 2, with broad cotyledons. Villous, with long hairs. Stipules long- 

 setaceous ; leaves mostly approximate on long petioles ; leaflets about 9, 

 obtuse or emarginate, or sometimes acutish, smooth on upper surface. 

 Pedicels 2-4 mm. ; bracts subulate-setaceous, as long as the calyx, or 

 shorter. Calyx large, villous ; lips short. Petals purple to white, sub- 

 equal, 13 mm. long ; carina subciliate. Legume villous, ovate. 



(N. W. Amer., Chili) ; Patagon., by Rio Chubut, and confluence of 

 RR. Neuquen and Limay. 



12. ULEX Linn. Furze. 



Shrubs, with stiff spine-like branches and leaves, and large, yellow, solitary 

 or spiked flowers. Calyx deeply 2-lipped. 



Stamens 10, monadelphous. Legume ovoid to linear. Seeds strophi- 

 olate. Fig. in Eng. & Prantl, iii, 3, p. 237, F. 



Species 10, chiefly European. 



U. NANUS Forst. 



Decumbent, with glabrous, linear leaves and branches. Bracts minute, 

 appressed. Calyx rather glabrous, its teeth lanceolate, distant. 



(W. Eur.) ; Patagon. ; immigrant to Brazil and Magellan ; also in N. 

 Afr. The European Furze (U. etiropceus L.) is now in the Cape, and in 

 Australia, and in parts of the United States ; it is a beautiful pest. 



