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Besides the type collection I have seen one other from Ne- 

 vada. Goodding 942, collected at Caliente in the Meadow Valley 

 Wash, Clark county, labeled L. brevicaulis^ is this species. In 

 some cases, however, plants of L. dispersus have been included 

 under this number, but may be easily recognized by the denser 

 pubescence, and much smaller, pale flowers. 



Two collections from California have been noted. The first 

 is Coville and Funston ^77, labeled L. brevicaulis, from Bound- 

 ary canyon Grapevine mountains, Inyo county, just over the 

 line from Nevada, and not many miles southwest of Rhyolite. 

 The second, also labeled L. brevicaulis, is Purpus JJ14, from 

 "sandy plains, South Fork of Kern River, Calif., alt. 2-3000 f." 

 This locality is on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, and 

 is a rather remarkable extension of the range. The specimen 

 examined is no. 82241, herbarium of the University of Califor- 

 nia. On the same sheet (Brandegee Herbarium) are two more 

 specimens, one of them an undeveloped state of L bdoratus, 

 while the other may be undescribed. 



Still another collection is Jones i6^j from St. George, Utah, 

 April 13, 1880. The plants are young and not well developed, 

 but are undoubtedly this species. 



L/UPINUS ODORATUS Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 71. 1905. 



Plate 4. t. 13-lS 



Somewhat fleshy, 1.5-2.5 dm. high: leaves basal; petioles 

 8 cm. long or less, stout, somewhat villous; leaflets commonly 9, 

 oblanceolate, 2 cm. long or less, 7 mm. wide below the rounded 

 but acutish apex, bright green, at first villous but becoming 

 glabrous except for the few tufts of hairs at the apex: scape-like 

 peduncle yellowish: inflorescence 5 or 6 cm. long: bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, 2 or 3 mm. long, with a tuft of long hairs at the apex: 

 pedicels slender, 6 mm. long, ascending, glabrous, readily disar- 

 ticulating from the stem: flowers pleasantly scented, deep violet- 

 purple except for a yellow quadrate spot on the face of the ban- 

 ner, about 1 cm. long, S mm. deep: calyx dull green, the lobes 

 entire, the- upper 2 mm. long, the lower 4 ill in. long; a .small 



bractlel 1 mm. long in the sinus between the lobes: banner broad 

 (1 cm.), the edges only slightly turned back, presenting a scoQp- 



