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date, glabrous or nearly so above, pubescent beneath with short 

 closely appressed hairs, mid vein prominent: peduncles short, 3 

 or 3 cm. long: inflorescence i dm. long, the flowers lax, scatter- 

 ed or sometimes indistinctly whorled, pale violet-purple, i cm- 

 long, 8 mm. wide: pedicels slender, shortly pubescent, 5 mm. 

 long: calyx pubescent as the pedicels, shortly and bluntly spur- 

 red, the lobes nearly equal, entire, the lower 5 mm. the upper" 

 4 mm. long: banner with edges turned back and parallel, mid- 

 vein ending in a short sharp point which does not protrude from 

 the concavity; wings inflated, cohering only at the apex, the 

 lower edges standing apart exposing the keel, the upper slightly 

 gaping, the surface plane, 4 mm. across; keel with a strong rec- 

 tangular curve, glabrous, over 2 mm. wide to a point slightly 

 beyond the curve, then gradually tapering to an acuminate 

 point. 



The tyye is no 8015, collected June 9, 1905, at Montague, 

 Siskiyou county, California, where it is plentiful on the plain 

 near the town. It is a symmetrically branched plant, appar- 

 ently not closely related to any of the shrubby Californian spe- 

 cies, the rather small flowers with the apices of wings and ban- 

 ner only about 2 mm. apart. 



LuPiNUS ALBIFRONS Beuth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 11. 1: 410. 1835. 

 No. 7577, collected March 22, on the ridge east of South 

 Butte, Marysville Buttes, Sutter county, where it is common at 

 medium elevations. A shrub about three feet high, with large 

 flowers either deep or light violet-purple, the banner with some 

 yellow on the face, the edges turned back and almost meeting 

 at the middle, about 4 mm. apart at the base, 2 mm. at the 

 apex. The wings wholly include the keel. 



No. 7849, collected May 25, near the railroad just above 

 Redding, Shasta county. This has leaves greener, a little more 

 pointed, the flowers smaller, with the banner turning dull pur- 

 ple when dry. This species, as commonly interpreted, is a 

 shrub 3-5 feet high with pronounced trunk, much branched 



