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Lupinus Andersoni Wats. Bot. King Rep. 58. 1871. 



"Specimens were collected near Carson City by Dr. Ander- 

 son, (9, [08, and 121,) very distinct in their habit, and seeming 

 scarcely to belong to any described species. Slender and much 

 branched, apparently 1 foot high, minutely puberulent through- 

 out; leaflets 7, oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, about equal- 

 ing the petioles, (1-2 inches long;) racemes short or becoming 

 elongated, (2-6 inches,) loosely flowered; flowers scattered or 

 subverticillate, bine or ochroleucous, (3-6 lines lou^;) bracts 

 small and ovate, much shorter than the pedicels; calyx broad- 

 campanulate, but slightly gibbons, the lobes nearly equal, en- 

 lire, suinewhat obtuse; legumes subpubescent, 4 6seeded, (15 

 lines long, 4 lines wide.)' 1 



Figure [6, Floral |>.:rts 01 Lupinus Andersoni, enlarged. 

 Until last winter I had never been able to identity this 

 plant. Among several species of lupines sent to Miss Eastwood 

 for comparison at the Gray Herbarium, was one from the Sierra 

 Nevada of California, sent (Hit by me as an undescribed species, 

 which she said was a near relative of /.. Andersotlii. This gave 



