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racemes, the whole barely equalling the leaves: racemes 2 cm. 

 long or less, dense: flowers bright violet-blue, 7 mm. long, 4mm. 

 deep: bracts green, lanceolate-linear, slightly over 2 mm. long, 

 villous-hirsute, as are the pedicels and calvx: pedicels about 



2 mm. long when in fruit: calyx with very unequal lobes, the 

 upper practically obsolete, represented by a bractlet on either 

 side; the lower lobe entire, 1 or 2 mm. shorter than the flower: 

 banner somewhat rhombic-elliptic when spread out, 7 mm. long, 



3 mm. wide across the middle, in nature the edges apparently 

 somewhat turned back but not parallel; wings probably only 



lerately inflated, open on the lower side and exposing the 



nearly its whole length, narrow, only 2 mm. wide; keel 



8 mil), long, protruding a little from the wings: pods about 1 cm. 



. somewhat villous, reticulate-veined: seeds 



somewhat lenticular, 2 mm. across, pinkish, smooth and shining. 



The above description is drawn from Kennedy rjJJ, col- 

 lected at Truckee Pass, Washoe count}-, and since it answers 

 well to the essential points in Watson's description, I take it to 

 be true L. brevicaulis. The calvx is like his /." 2. pi. 7, and the 

 banner and keel correspond to /'. j, except that the banner in his 

 figure looks rather diagrammatic. His /.' /, however, does not 

 look altogether like our plant, and may possibly represent L. dis- 

 persus. He does not indicate any particular type locality, but 

 says "in the valleys and lower canyons of Western Nevada to 

 the East Humboldt Mountains, (more frequent than the last) 

 [L. pusillus] and on the islands of Salt Lake; 5-8,006 feet alti- 

 tude; May-July. Also collected by Dr. Anderson (84) near Car- 

 son City." 



Anderson's 84, at least the one on sheet [6008 in the her- 

 barium of the University of California, is L. malacophyllus, a 

 totally different plant. 



On sheet (.1363 in the U. S. National Herbarium, is a spe- 

 cimen collected by Watson in the Coyote mountains in the 

 southeastern part of what is now Humboldt counts-, in June, 

 1868. It is labeled u Liipimts brevicaulu S. Watson, form," and 

 differs slightl) from the plant described above. Some of the 

 ire more elongated, and the lower calyx lobe is not 



