September 30, iqi2 ^9 



liairs: j)e(iicel barely 2 mm. loiii^, t^labroiis: calyx tube nearly 

 glabrous; lobes green, hirsiite like the rest of the plant, the 

 upper about 1.5mm. long, cleft to the base into lanceolate divis- 

 ions; lower 3 mm. long, entire: banner with the edges turned 

 back, appearing as if shorter than the wings, when spread out 

 6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; wings moderately inflated, open and 

 exposing the keel to a point a little above the lower calvx lobe: 

 keel moderately curved: fruit not seen. 



The type, in the herbarium of the Nevada Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, is Heller pjpp, collected at Wadswoith, 

 Churchhill county, Nevada, May 7, 1909, growing in granite 

 sand in open places in the sage brush. 



This species has been distributed b\' me as L. pusilhis^ to 

 which it is nearest related. Other collections from Nevada are 

 Shockley 2jo from Candelaria, and IValson 221 in part, from 

 near Unionville. Piirpits ^802 from "sandy plains. Deep Spring 

 Vallev, Calif." also belongs here. It is apj)arentl\- confined to 

 western Nevada and sotuheastern California, although it ma\- 

 be found in southeastern Oregon. 



^ Lupinus varie^'atu.s sp. nov. 



Perennial ( § Calcarati ): stems clustered from a thick woody 

 rootstock, 4 or 5 dm. high, shortly appressed silky but not pale, 

 nnbranched, leafy: leaflets 9 to ir, oblong-oblanceolate or ob- 

 lanceolate, 4 cm. long, 6mui. wide, acute and apiculate, or about 

 8 mm. wide and obtuse, light green and sparinglv appre.ssed pu- 

 bescent above, paler and more densely pubescent beneath, or the 

 broader obtuse forms silver\- beneath, the pale uiidvein rather 

 prominent; petioles of lower leaves up to 12 cm. long, those of 

 the uppermost 2 cm. or less; stipules subulate, 6 or 7 mm. long. 

 nearly free: peduncles short, 2 or 3cm. long: inflorescence rather 

 dense, i dm. or le.ss, the pedicels, cahx and bracts den^el\- short 

 hirsute: flowers \ellow and purple, occasionally white and pur- 

 ple, or entirely yellow, spurred at base, the spur thick, barely 

 2 mm. long: bracts lanceolate, 6 nun. long, i mm. wide at base: 

 pedicels rather stout, 5inm. long: upper cal\x lip jiale, 3-toothed 

 the whole broadK' ovate, ^ mm. long, ^ mm. u ide at b.t-r; lower 



