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erect; lower lip carinate, ovate, acute, entire, color pale green, 

 inclining to white. Banner roundish, with a long reflected 

 claw, pubescent on the back; wings oblong, externally puberu- 

 lent toward the apex, &c; keel ciliate; stigma naked; pods 

 hairy, four-seeded. 



"This species is near L. laxifiorus. The spur is remark- 

 ably long, exceeding the pedicels; (but/,, laxifiorus) is described 

 as having blue flowers. This, as before stated, has no [t only] 

 white flowers, but half the calyx, including the spur, is also 

 white; the stem certainly is not "glabrous," as some have de- 

 scribed laxifiorus, nor are the petioles of the leaves short, nor 

 the points of the leaflets obtuse; the stipules are neither subu- 

 late nor caducous, nor is the raceme what we would designate 

 as loose and elongated. 



"Finally, the white flowers and half colored calyx, which 

 could by no means be spoken of as slightly saccate, induce us to 

 consider it as a new species." 



The type locality of this species is not given, but according 

 to Mrs. Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1; 135, it was "collected by C. 

 H. Dorr, near Virginia City, New" It is an inhabitant of forests 

 in open gravelly places, and also of treeless ridges among the 

 sage brush. I first found it in 1909 under the latter conditions 

 on the ridge south of Alum creek, Washoe county, some eight 

 - • '- " '"iles squthwest of Reno (nos. 9744 and 9745). Whether 

 .' g„ s yj e really had a spur longer than the pedicel I do n< t 

 know, but so far I have found no plants in which the spur more 

 than equals the pedicel, and it is usually shorter. 



Watson evidently determined his "A. suiphtireus Dotigl." 

 of the King Report upon the yellowish color of the flowers in 

 herbarium specimens, for the plant collected by Bloomer on Mt. 

 Davidson is plainly L. calcaratus. Later, in Proc. Am. Acad. 

 <S: 5 1 1. [873, he refers to L. calcaratus his L. laxifiorus of the 

 King Report, which he then- says accords "exactly with authen- 

 tic specimens in Herb. Gray," and this too is evidently an error, 

 foi the plant he describes then- docs not agree with calcaratus. 



In Zoe >*: 285, Jones writes as follows concerning a plant 

 which is evidently calcaratus: 



