SMITH: STUDIES IN THE GENUS LUPINUS—VIII 165 
CALIFORNIA. Mariposa County: Mariposa~Coulterville 
road, April, 1883, J. W. Congdon (Type, G). 
nown only from the type specimen, a rather startling 
variation, probably as rare and local as it is odd. 
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Fic. 80. Lupinus NANUS PERLASIUS C. P. Smith. J. W. Congdon, 
April, 1883 (G). 
ic. Lupinus nanus carnosulus (Greene) comb. nov. [Fic. 81.] 
Lupinus carnosulus Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 11.6: 144. 1886. 
Lupinus affints carnosulus (Greene) Jepson, Fl. West. Mid. 
Cal. re Igo. 
= fferi om the typical form in the size of the pods and 
seeds: largest tenflets 25-40 mm. long, 8-12 mm. wide; flowers 
12- am eases not much curved; pods 30-50 mm. ‘long 7-9 
mm ile es six to eight; seeds about 5 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, 
dark eewe: heavily mottled. 
Greene’s original description is very brief se includes 
some interesting points. It is reproduced in full 
Annual, not slender, 1-2 feet high, somewhat succulent, sicks pubes- 
cent, with appressed hairs: see usa an inch long, obtuse, but 
with a small, recurved cusp: s loose: bracts ngourige the. sic 
the upper lip of which is deeply ie ne 5 lines long, deep 
out, keel naked: pods when young strongly villous-hirsute. 
Near the village of Olema, Marin County, April, 1886. 
Plant with the habit of large stages of L. manus, but very distinct, 
wanting the variegated or changeable petals and villous-edged keel of that 
species; the herbage fleshy as in L. affinis. 
The University of California has a sheet labelled, “ZL. carno- 
sulus Greene, Olema, Marin County, April, 1886, E. L. Greene.” 
This should therefore be a type-duplicate, if not the actual type; 
but some of the banners show a yellow center and white apex, 
