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10000 feet well down into the granite to as low as 9000 feet ot 



perhaps lower. 



In the matter of pubescence this species resembles L. m 

 rfoisis, being equally white, but the hairs are less spreading. 

 While the leaves are practically the same, the basal ones are 

 but little developed, and the flowers are totally different, as may 

 be noted by comparing the descriptions and illustrations of the 

 two species. I am also indebted to Miss Eastwood for compar- 

 ison of this species with the material in the Gray Herbarium. 



LUPINUS MEIONANTHUS Oray, Proc. Am. Acad. <»: 522. 1868. 



"Undique sericeo-incanns; canlibns ut videtur herbaceis vel 

 suffruticosis adscendentibus e radice perenni; foliolis 6-9 concol- 

 oribus oblanceolatis obtusis; stipnlis parvis setaeeis; bracteis 

 calyce brevioribns; floribus minimis (vix lineas 3 longis) verti- 

 cillatis in raccmum spiciformem congestis; calyce pedicello lon- 

 giori ebracteolato, labiis fere inte^ris corollam glabram snbae- 

 quantibus; carina apice brevi late obtnso inflexa ciliata, legu- 

 minibns ovatis incanis 1-2-spermis. — Nevada, near Carson City, 

 Dr. C. L. Anderson. It would be unsafe to describe a new Lu- 

 pine before the old species are settled, except in a case like this, 

 — a silven -eanescent species with remarkably small flowers. 

 These aie bine or purple, with a yellow spot on the vexillnm. 

 Leaflets 6-1 1 lines long, mostly equalling the petiole. Legumes 

 half an inch long. Seed with a small hilum." 



Gray was evidently somewhat in donbt about the character 

 of the steins of this species. One could not well say that they 

 are suffruti cose at the base, but hey are firm-herbaceous The 

 white silver\- leaflets are 2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, the midvein 

 rather prominent beneath and produced at the blunt apex ol the 

 leaf into a very short nu.cro. The peduncles are short, about 

 3 cm. long, while the inflorescence is occasionally 1 dm. long, 

 the flowers more or less whorled, at first often crowded, but at 

 length becoming lax. The fngaceons bracts are ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 2.5 mm. long, 1.5mm. wide at base. The calyx is 5mm. 

 long, the upper lobe 3 mm. long, shallowly notched, the lower 

 lobe 4mm. long, obscurely 3-toothed. The flowers aie com- 



