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But the greatest surprise came when the first leaf unfolded. 

 In all the species observed up to this tiiue, the first leaf bore at 

 least three leaflets, put in this species it is unifoliate, and the 

 arrangement is alternate from the beginning. All of the other 

 lupines now growing in our greenhouse, some fifteen, both an- 

 nual and perennial, first produce about three pairs of opposite 

 leaves, which, with the cotyledons, usually wither and disappear 

 by the time the plant is read}- to bloom. 



In this species the fotirth leaf generally bears two leaflets, 

 and, as may be seen in the right hand figure, the succeeding 

 one? bea'- three 'eaflets. The right hand plant was photo- 

 graphed May 2d, and show-^ f jur leaves of three leaflets. The 

 p'ant 'vas 6c:n high at tha". time. The drawing would >cem to 

 indicate that the plant is g'abrous, but it is really silver)- with 

 ver}- closely appressed short hairs, a condition almost impossible 

 to represent in a drawing. 





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the prostrate habit of the plant, is from a specimen from the 



type locality, my no. SySy^ collected at Point Pinos, Pacific 



Grove, May 27, 1903. .\ clo.se examination of two sheets of 



