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the lobes nearly equal, the upper 2 nun. long, 2 mm. wide when 

 spread out, prominently 2-toothed, the lower 3111111. 1 «> n lc and 

 nearly as broad when spread out, shortly 3-toothed: banner round 

 obovate when spread out, 7 nun. long, 5 mm. wide, the sides 

 somewhat reflexed, the face witli a whitish spot turning red in 

 age; wings hut little inflated, open below and exposing the 

 keel, oblong, 8mm. long, 3mm. deep; keel rather strongly 

 curved, 3 nun. deep across the middle, ciliate in the upper half, 

 the purple apex rather bluntly pointed: pods n mm. long, 5111111. 

 wide, white silky, the hairs rather appressed, 3-seeded, the seeds 

 (immature) grayish, smooth. 



The type, in the herbarium of the Nevada Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, is Heller 9748, collected June 11, 1909, on 

 the ridge south of Alum creek, Washoe county, Nevada, at an 

 elevation of about 6500 feet. It is plentiful at one place in 

 gravel in open pine woods, the procumbent stems often forming 

 a good sized mat. 



This is also related to L. Lobbii, and in general appearance 

 somewhat resembles no. 2085 of Brewer in the herbarium of the 

 University of California. It is also related to L. alpinus^ but 

 differs in the first place in the greatly elongated cylindrical in- 

 florescence, and has smaller flowers. While the calyx lobes of 

 the two are very similar, the floral parts are different, as may be 

 seen by comparing the illustrations. The bracts at the base of 

 the calyx are much less persistent in L. pinetorum, and the 

 bractlet on the outside of the calyx is wanting. 



Besides the type we have a specimen collected by Professor 

 S. C. Dinsmore in Hunter creek canyon, at a point two or three 

 miles north of the type station, June 20, 1907, elevation 6000 

 feet. This is the plant mentioned in Nevada. Agr. Exp. Sta. 

 Bull. 1 1 : 30.//. 14. 1909, having been used in a sheep feeding 

 experiment. It proved to be a good forage plant, and was rel- 

 ished by the sheep. 



