December 7, 191 2 '19 



the short racemes many, borne hardly above the foliage: petioles 

 sloutish, mnch longer ihan the leaves and loosely villous hir- 

 sute; leaflets about 7, uncciual, very broad, cuneate-oblong, the 

 longest about ^ inch long, almost hoarily villous hirsute, most 

 so beneath: racemes peduncled, but the peduncles not quite 

 equaling the foliage: flowers small and crowded, yet apparently 

 verticillate; petals eqtial, in the main deej) blue, the whole mid- 

 dle of the banner at first deep yellow, changing to deep blue; 

 keel broad, not falcate, somewhat bristly ciliale, the hairs not 

 closely approximate, but of a length very unusual: pod and 

 seeds not seen. 



Collected 5 August, 191 2, at an altitude of 10500 feet in 

 the Stanislaus forest reservation, California, by J. H. Hatton; 

 evidently a subalpine and partly shrubby lupine, yet in aspect 

 and character most unlike the other suffrntescent species of the 

 high Sierra, its stoutness and fleshiness suggesting some of the 

 coarser/annual species of the Coast Range and seaboard, yet a 

 thorough perennial, and even suffrutescent. 



ALPINE PLANTS— XIII 

 By p. Beveridge Kennedy 



Alpine Painted Cup 

 Castillhja inconspicua Nelson and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 19: 38. 1906. 

 The inconspicuous flowered Castillejas now form a consid- 

 erable group, some of which were originally placed in the genus 

 Orthocarpus, while others, such as Castilleja Lemmoiii, were 

 treated as Castillejas. They seem without doubt to be a con- 

 necting link between the two genera. All are perennials with 

 strong tap roots, from which come out numerous short stems 

 from two to ei<>ht inches in len<j-th. The leaves are divided and 

 subdivided into linear lobes. 



