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shape. It was collected at an elevation of 8000 feet or more. 

 The Washoe county specimens are: Kennedy 1423, collected at 

 Incline, near Lake Tahoe, elevation 6500 feet, labeled L. confer- 

 tus; a specimen collected at Bijou, Lake Tahoe, by Hillman in 

 1894, and one from Reno in 1890 by Hillman. 



Li'pinus confertus Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 2: 192. j. 59. 

 1862. 

 Perennial, densely white silky throughout, the pubescence 

 mostly appressed, but with some spreading hairs: stems several 

 from a stout and deep-seated tap root, 3 dm. high or less, densely 

 leafy below, less so above; lower petioles slender, 5 or 6 cm. 

 long, the upper somewhat reduced; stipules subulate, 5 mm. 

 long; leaflets about 7, elliptical-oblanceolate, 2 cm. long, 6 or 

 7 mm. wide, acutish at the apex: peduncles short and rather 

 stout, 2 to 4 cm. long, exceeding the leaves: inflorescence dense, 

 often 1.5 dm. long, 3 cm. across: bracts persistent, 9 mm. long, 



Figure 6. Floral parts ol Lupin in conferuts, enlarged, 

 subulate-acjiiminate, membranous: pedicels very short, 1 mm. 

 long: flowers sub-verticillate, contiguous, violet-purple 12 mm. 

 long, s or 9mm. deep, distance beTween apices of banner and 



