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fl. blue, changing to dull brown : keel ciliolate below the middle. By 

 streamlets and on wooded northward slopes of the Coast Range at low 

 altitudes: common in the hills near Berkeley. May August. 



13. L. lit tonilis, Dougl. Stems clustered, decumbent or ascending, 

 1 2 ft. long, from yellow roots that are somewhat fleshy and fusiform; 

 herbage canescently silky : leaflets 57, acute, 1 in. long, silky on both 

 sides: fl. distinctly and rather remotely verticillate in a short-peduncled 

 raceme: calyx-lips subequal, entire: banner red, shorter than the blue 

 wings : keel ciliate : pod linear, hirsute : seeds linear, brown with black 

 spots. Near Point Reyes, on seashore sands. 



H H -i Suffrutescent or shrubby species. 



14. L. albifrons, Benth. Arborescent, the distinct trunk-like woody 

 stem 13 ft. high, parted into spreading leafy branches, these ending in 

 a rather long-peduncled loose raceme: leaflets 7 9, oblanceolate, 1 in. 

 long or more, silvery-silky on both sides: fl. verticillate, large, deep blue: 

 upper calyx-lip broad, cleft to the middle, or less deeply; lower entire; 

 petals subequal, the broad banner with a whitish spot which soon changes 

 to rose-purple; keel ciliate: pod 2 in. long, 5 9-seeded: seed oval, 2 lines 

 long, brownish, encircled marginally by a dark line. Var. collinns, 

 Greene. Smaller in all its parts and with no trunk-like stem, the branches 

 decumbent from a short caudex. Very common on clayey slopes and 

 along ravines; the variety on rocky summits about the Presidio, and on 

 the islands in the Bay. Feb. April. 



15. L. jucundus, Greene. Shrubby, 24 ft. high; the branches as- 

 cending, leafy, ending in a long-peduncled rather loose raceme: leaves 

 silky-canescent; leaflets 7 9, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, not very 

 unequal : fl. very distinctly whorled : calyx-lips subequal, the upper bifid : 

 corolla % in. long, mainly dark violet, but with a yellow spot in the 

 middle of the banner which soon turns to a dark tawny red, the very 

 margin white changing to rose-red; keel naked; banner notably smaller 

 than the other pelals. Vaca Mountains. (L. tricolor, Greene, not of 

 garden catalogues). 



16. L. eminens, Greene. Of almost arborescent form, 36 ft. high : 

 branches stoutish ascending, very leafy, ending in a rather short and 

 dense short-peduncled raceme: growing branches and both faces of the 

 leaves silvery-silky : leaflets 79, very unequal, the longest 1% in., the 

 smallest barely 1 in. long: fl. scarcely whorled in the raceme; upper 

 calyx-lobe very broad, scarcely notched, the lower narrow, entire : corolla 

 about % in. long, purple, the banner shorter than the other petals, 

 changing from whitish to tawny; keel naked: pods villous, rather short, 

 almost erect, about 4-seeded. Description drawn from a plant of the 

 Santa Inez Mts.; but the same appears to occur on Mt. Tamalpais. 



