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high, rather slender, all herbage clothed with a rather coarse but 

 soft villous and appressed coat, this brownish: petioles very long 

 and slender; leaflets about 7, oblanceolate, acute, very unequal, 

 % to yl inch long: racemes peduncled yet hardly borne above 

 the foliage: corolla apparently light blue-purple; petals very un- 

 equal, banner greatly reduced, of barely two-thirds the length of 

 the wings and hardly spreading away from them; the short keel 

 closely woolly ciliate. 



This is another of Mr, Leiberg's choice gatherings of 1896, 

 made in a remote part of southeastern Oregon; this one from 

 near Stinking Water, 21 June. The name I have assigned this 

 new species is not appropriate except as relating to the reduced 

 banner petal. The plant is copiously floriferous and must be 

 rather beautiful among the dwarfs of the genus. The type spe- 

 cimen is on U. S. Herbarium sheet 2'/j6ij. 



Luplnus volutans 



Stout depressed dwarf perennial, all the herbage rough with 

 a subfuscous hirsute pubescence, a dense short tomentum under- 

 lying the shaggy coat: all the short thick branches densely leafy 

 with a long-petioled foliage, the largest of the 5 to 7 leaflets i 

 inch long, rather broad, subcuneate-elliptic, obtusish: racemes 

 short, compact, only in part surpassing the foliage, the rachis 

 and calyx densely villous hirsute and fuscous: corolla small, 

 light purple: banner rather narrow and hardly erect; keel short, 

 not falcate, the marijin densely white woolly from below the 

 middle to the apex. 



Malheur Valle\-, in arid southeastern Oregon, collected 8 

 June, 1896, by J. B. Leiberg, and not otherwise known; type on 

 U. S. Herbarium sheet 2j6^^i. It appears to have grown in 

 dry clayey or alkaline soil, and the dust of this adheres to all the 

 basal parts of the plant, as if it had wallowed in it, hence the 

 specific name. 



,/ Lupinus crassulus 



Plant stout and low, the flowering branches stout, herba- 

 ceous and somewhat fleshy, resting on a thick tough but some- 

 what ligneous partly subterrenean caudex, suberect, very leafy, 



