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back and slightly crinkled above, obovate cuneate when spread 

 out, 6 mm. wide, the face with a shallow groove, at first white 

 at the middle, fading purple or violet; wings inflated, open dor- 

 sally and at the apex exposing the keel, the ventral edges 

 closed, raised into a low, sharp keel, the individual wings ob- 

 ovate oblong when spread out, 5 mm. wide just above the mid- 

 dle, then obliquely rounded to the broad blunt apex; keel glab- 

 rous, moderately curved, 2 mm. deep across the middle, the 

 apex purple: pods yellowish, villous, 2.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, 

 about 7-seeded: seeds pale flesh colored, stightly yellow-brown 

 mottled, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. 



The type, in the herbarium of A. A. Heller, is Charles 

 Piper Smith 140^^ collected April 13, 1908, in Cedro Cottage 

 field, San Mateo county, California, near Stanford University. 



An account of this species was given by Mr. Smith in this 

 journal 6: 139. yC 20^ as '■'■Lupimis sp." His illustration is here 

 reproduced as figure 17. 



Figure 17. Enlarged flower of Lnpiiius Pipersmithii, natural shape 



While but few collections of this plant have been noted, it 

 is no doubt not uncommon about Stanford University, and 

 should be looked for elsewhere. Besides the type I have seen 

 the following: Heller 1021^0 (pink), 102^1 (blue) Smith 1402 

 (pink) from the type station; Heller ro2^j^ Stanford University 

 campus near the athletic grounds; C. F. Baker 192/^ San An- 

 dreas lake; Palo Alto, Tidestrom, May 12, 1893, Greene^ April 

 12, 1895. 



It is one of the various species long referred to L. fnicran- 

 thus^ but as shown in my paper in Muhlenbergia for January of 

 this year, that species is a northern plant, and its nearest rela- 



