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would probably show an inflorescence two or three times as long^ 

 as the type, which has unopened flowers at the apex of the spike. 



^ LuPiNUS Wyethii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 525. 1873. 



Last summer I looked for the type of this species in the 

 Gray Herbarium, where presumably it should be found, but did 

 not notice it there. Wyeth collected it on the "Flathead River, 

 Oregon." The type may be in the herbarium of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy, as many of Wyeth's specimens are there. The 

 Flathead river of Wyeth is Clark's Fork of the Columbia, and 

 the plant was probably collected in what is now the state of 

 Montana. The other specimen mentioned by Watson, collected 

 by Spalding on the Clearwater I have seen, and have also found 

 the same thing along that stream, but doubt whether it is iden- 

 tical with Wyeth's plant. It may be that Watson used Spald- 

 ing's plant when writing the description, but that can be de- 

 cided only after a careful examination of the two. 



Lupinus coluiubiauus nom. nov. 



Ljipinus confusus Heller, Muhlenbergia 8: 63. 191 2; not 

 L. confusus Rose, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 307. 1905. 



It seems that I have no good excuse to offer in the case of 

 this homonym, for Rose's name is plainly listed in the third 

 supplement to the Index Kewensis. L. confusus Rose, is a 

 Mexican species. 



Lupinus pallidus Brandegee, Zoe 4: 203. 1893. 

 The type of this was collected in ''sands in the dry bed of 

 the creek near the Mission of San Vincente in northern Baja 

 California, May, 1893," ^V Brandegee. It is an annual, perhaps 

 referable to the Micranthi, and has been collected at a number 

 of places in San Diego county, California. L. desertorum liej- 

 ler, may be a syn«)nym, but as yet I have had no opportunity to 

 dissect and compare the flowers. 



