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The type was collected by C. F. .Sonne on "dry hills near 

 Verdi, Nevada, 2 May, 1888." Verdi is situated about ten miles 

 west of Reno on the Truckee river. The plant is plentiful on 

 gravelly hills about Reno, beginning to bloom in the latter part 

 of April and usually lasting well into June. It is probably of 

 local distribution, for with one exception all of the specimens 

 examined have been collected within ten miles of Reno. The 

 exception is Anderson's 84, collected near Carson. 



In Bulletin 24 of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, entitled Early Flora of the Truckee Valley, by F. II. Hill- 

 man, this species is described under the name of L. piisillus, 

 and is given as "common, often in patches." It is apparently 

 the only species of this section found in the Great Basin which 

 has a more or less verticillate inflorescence. It is a handsome 

 little plant, well worthy of cultivation. The following speci- 

 mens have been examined: 



ORMSBY COUNTY: Carson, C. L. Anderson 84 (labeled L. 

 pit si 11 'us). 



WASHOE COUNTY: Verdi, Sonne 2/ (type); Reno, Jones, 

 1882 (as L. pusillus)\ June 10, 1897 (as L. "breviflorus Wats.;" 

 Miss Stokes, June 21, 1900 (as L. pusillus)\ Brandegee, May, 

 [883 (as L. brevicaulis)\ Hillman, September, 1890 (labeled L. 

 A'tngit, and annotated by Jones as "Shockleyi W." on sheet no. 

 20976 in the U. S. National Herbarium); T. IT. Cowgill, May 

 13, 1901; Kennedy, May 4, 1901; Heller 9696; hills ten miles 

 north of Reno, Heller 865Q. 



Liipiiius flavoculatus 



Plate 5 

 Annual (section Platycarpos), depressed, usually only 5 or 

 6 cm. high, nearly acaulescent, the leaves and flowering stems 

 decumbent for about half their length, the latter averaging about 

 1 dm. in length (some of them occasionally runner-like, 2 or 

 3 dm. long): petioles yellowish, the largest 5 to 8 cm. long, vil- 

 lous with stiffish white spreading hairs about 2 mm. long: leaf- 

 lets about 8, obovate-oblanceolate, up to 15 mm. long, 7 mm. 

 wide, yellow at base, the whole forming a yellow eye to the leaf, 



