88 BOTANY. 
SopHora* sericea, Nutt. (Gen. i, 280).—Appressed_silky-pubescent: 
stems herbaceous, from a perennial running rootstock, erect, a foot high or 
less, branching: leaflets six to ten pairs, oblong-obovate, obtuse or retuse, 
glabrous above, two to six lines long; stipules linear or wanting: racemes 
shortly peduncled, rather loose, short ; bracts subulate, somewhat persistent, 
about equalling the pedicels: calyx 5-toothed: petals white, four to six 
lines long; the standard longer, recurved, and with a narrow claw: pods 
pubescent, more or less stipitate, thin-coriaceous, scarcely dehiscent, 1—3- 
seeded (about 6-ovuled), an inch or two long—Colorado to New Mexico, 
frequent ; collected at Kit Carson and Apex, Colo. (238), and at McArthy’s 
Ranch, N. Mex. (98). 
CroraLaria Lupuuina, DC. (Prodr. ii, 133).—Annual and finely 
pubescent or glabrate: stem slender, erect or ascending, one-half to two 
feet high, branching: leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets cuneate-oblong, 
obtuse, mucronulate, smooth above, a half to one and a half inches long, 
exceeding the petioles; stipules setaceous: peduncles terminal and opposite 
the leaves, loosely flowered: bracts minute: pedicels recurved: calyx 
two lines long or less: petals three to six lines long, the keel with a 
long straight beak: pod oblong, half an inch long—From New Mexico 
and Arizona to Northern Mexico, and also in Cuba; collected by Roth- 
rock, in Arizona, at Camp Grant (443), Chiricahua Agency (534), 
and Camp Crittenden (684). Grisebach refers the species to C. pumila, 
Ortega. : : 
Lupinus Srrereavesi, Watson (Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 527).—Peren- 
nial, herbaceous, slender, leafy and branching, about two feet high, more 
or less silky-villous; pubescence of the racemes short and spreading : 
leaflets 7 to 9, narrowly oblanceolate, usually glabrous above or nearly so, 
equalling the petioles: raceme open, shortly peduncled: flowers rather 
large, light blue, on slender pedicels: calyx broad, not spurred: standard 
naked; keel usually ciliate: pod 5-seeded—In the mountains from the 
Southern Sierra Nevada to Southern Colorado and New Mexico; San 
*Sorpnora, Linn.—Calyx campanulate, with short equal teeth. Petals nearly equal; standard 
broad. Stamens distinct; anthers uniform. Pod thick or coriaceous, terete, stipitate, mostly indehiscent, 
constricted between the several sub-globose seeds and usually necklace-like.—Trees, shrubs, or herbs, 
with unequally pinnate leaves and entire leaflets ; Stipules small or none; flowers in terminal racemes. 
