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it began to appear and there calcaratas stopped, the two species 

 overlapping but slightly. 



With the exception of specimens from Humboldt and Eu- 

 reka counties, all of ours are from the western part of the state, 

 on the ranges adjacent to the Sierra Nevada mountains. It 

 grows equally well in different soils, but seems to reach its great- 

 est development in granite, being especially abundant on the 

 slopes of Mt. Rose above Contact Pass, where its upper limit is 

 at 9800 feet. It probably does not occur below 5500 feet. The 

 following specimens from Nevada are in our herbarium: 



Eureka county: Eureka, Frandscn, May 28, 1903. 



Humboldt county: Paradise Valley, Kennedy 1043. 



Storey county: Virginia City (type locality) Miss McDer- 

 mott. 



Washoe county: Mt. Rose Kennedy 1 iSj; Longebaugh's 

 wood camp, Brown y Jul)- 28, 1907; ridge south of Alum creek, 

 Heller 9744, 9745. 



Besides the above I have in my own herbarium specimens 

 collected in King's canyon, Orm.^by county, near Carson, Baker 

 918 and 92J. 



The drawings of the floral parts were made from my no. 

 9744- 



LUPINUS CAUDATUS Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 2: 197 '. f. 61. 

 1862. 



Lupinus argentinus Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 30:257. 1903. 



"Lupinus caudatus (Kellogg). Fig. 61. 



"Stems persistent, somewhat decumbent; leafy and branch- 

 ing, silvery or satiny, appressed pubescent throughout. 



"Leaflets five to seven, linear-lanceolate, acute, niucronate, 

 narrowed towards the base, about as long as the petiole. 



"Stipules persistent, small lance-acuminate. 



"Flowers blue, scattered and sub-verticillate, floral portion 

 about twice the length of the peduncle, or two or three times 

 the length of the petioles. 



'Bracts caducous, twice the length "1 the pedicels; calyx 

 tubular campanulate, upper lip straight, two-toothed, (not col- 



