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from one-fourth to one-third the entire length of the involucre: pistil- 
late flowers little protruding, the stalks apparently articulated, 2.5™™ 
long, commonly 10, becoming deflexed, intermixed with ciliate 
bristles 2™™ long: corolla 2™™ long, white or pinkish, petals 6, in 
two whorls; outer broad elliptic or more or less rectangular in shape, 
with bases clawed; inner shorter, narrower and obovate: staminate 
flowers fewer, sessile or sub-sessile, intermixed or more or less ih the 
central region, also subtended by ciliate bristles, 1™™ long, petals 
smaller though similar in shape and equal in number: the 10 stamens 
included, upon slender filaments, bearing small yellow anthers: ovary 
smooth, elongated, 2™™ long, surrounded by numerous sterile fila- 
ments; styles 3, spreading, terminated by small capitate stigmas; 
achene sub-terete and spindle-shaped, purplish, smooth. 
These hills contain borax mines, and since this plant is strictly confined to 
this region it would seem that the salt is a necessary constituent for it. 
On very hot barren exposed round-topped hills between Griffin’s postoffice 
and Mt. Pinos, Ventura county, California, July 1902. Type specimen, no. 3593, 
in Herb. Stanford University. 
Lupinus glareosus, n. sp.—An almost acaulescent annual, 3-sam 
high, somewhat succulent though readily curing: stem very short, 
rather thick and hollow, terminated by a spicate inflorescence; 
branches with a soft short brownish pubescence, chiefly from the 
stem, the outer ones curved upward from the middle: leaves clustered 
at the point of branching, erect or ascending, upon finely pubescent 
petioles 1-5°™ long, with broadened bases subtended by laciniate 
adnate stipules; leaflets 10, sessile, only sparsely pubescent on both 
sides, soft and fleshy, obovate, on an average 15™™ long and 5™™ 
wide, the older ones with a very peculiar dead scarious upper margin: 
spikes cylindrical, 3°™ in diameter, 10-15°™ long, erect and exceed- 
ing the leaves, upon pedunculate scapes: flowers in whorls of 5, upon 
short pubescent pedicels, subtended by acuminate similarly pubescent 
bracts which slightly exceed it: calyx cup-shaped at base, bilabiate, 
pubescent; lower lip rather broad, 7™™ long, obtuse, 3-nerved; 
upper one thinner, 3™™ long, notched; banner broadly elliptic, 12™™ 
long, finely nerved and entirely glabrous; lateral wings equaling the 
length of the banner, nearly 5™™ in width throughout, basal margins 
ciliate and abruptly terminating into a short narrow claw; keel at ° 
least 12™™ long, falcate, with a constricted ring-like portion near 
