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"The part of Jour. Acad. Phila. containing Nuttall's paper 

 (7; 61-115), which was vol. 7, part i, was published in October, 



1834. Agardh's Synopsis Generis Lupini was first published in 

 the form of three theses, dated 14 December, 1835; the common 

 form being a reissue without the thesis title-pages but also dated 



1835. Nuttall's name therefore has about fourteen months pri- 

 ority over Agardh's." 



Therefore, Watson's L. Nuttallii, substituted in Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 8: 526. 1873, for L. gracilis Xutt. must be displaced and 

 Nuttall's name restored. Why Watson made the change, I do 

 not know, except that Agardh's name was published in a mono- 

 graph, and hence supposed to have a better right to be used than 

 Nuttall's, though lacking priority. 



/ Liupiiius apodotropis 



Perennial, height unknown, but probably not less than 6 or 

 7 dm.: lower part of stem unknown, fragment of upper portion 

 3.5 dm. long including the inflorescence deeply channeled, some- 

 what appressed pubescent with clear white hairs: petioles of 

 basal leaves nearly 6 dm. long, pubescent and grooved like the 

 stems; leaflets about 8, elliptical-lanceolate, 10 cm. long, 2 cm. 

 wide, the apex acute and spinulose tipped, deep yellow green 

 and glabrous above, somewhat appressed pubescent and paler 

 beneath; stem leaves scattered, on successively shortf^r^petioles, 

 the uppermost sometimes almost sessile, their leaflets 5 cm. long, 

 12 mm. wide: peduncles short, 5 cm. or less: inflorescence 1.5dm. 

 long, flowers in close whorls, violet-blue, 12 mm. long, 10 mm. 

 deep, space between apices of banner and wings 4 mm.: bracts 

 II mm. long, densely pubescent with long white hairs: pedicels 

 purplish or brown, 6 mm. long, pubescent like the bracts: calyx 

 densely villous, its lobes lanceolate, the upper broadly so, 5 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. wide at base, 2-toothed, the sinus V-shaped; lower 

 lobe 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide at base, entire, rather narrow and 

 convex; bractlet between the lobes 1.5 mm. long, long-villous: 

 banner with the sides turned back and parallel, apparently al- 

 most meeting, the upper part of the face rather narrow with a 

 deep but narrow groove, the lower part strongly concave, form- 



