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The type is no. 7679, collected April 14, 1905, on gravelly 

 hillsides at Randsburg, Kern county, in the Mojave desert. Its 

 position is somewhat uncertain, as some of the immature pods 

 appear to be ovate, perhaps due to pressure, while others are 

 more like those of ordinary Lupinus. Purpus' 5802, from 

 "sandy plains, Deep Springs Valley, Calif." labeled L. pusillus 

 Pursh, is apparently the same, but Xxw^ piisilliis is a very differ- 

 ent plant, and should not be expected in California. 



Lupinus ruber 



Annual, section Platycarpos: about i dm. high, villous 

 throughout except on the upper side of the leaves, branched 

 from the base, the branches diffuse: petioles 8 cm. long or less, 

 broad and membranous 3-nerved near the base; stipules linear, 

 6 or 7 mm. long, decurrent or aduEtte to the petiole for i cm. on 

 large leaves: leaflets blue-green, oblanceolate or spatulate, the 

 largest 2 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, smooth above, the apex rounded 

 and obtuse: peduncles about 2 cm. long, the inflorescence little 

 if any longer: flowers erect in from 2 to 4 whorls, as long or a 

 little longer than the internodes, dull red, i cm. long, about 

 4 mm. across: bracts lance-acuminate, 8 mm. long, little more 

 than I mm wide at base: lower calyx lobe 8 mm. long, barely 

 3 mm. wide at the base, the apex cleft for 2 mm, with a short 

 cusp in the sinus; upper lip practically obsolete, represented by 

 two short lanceolate teeth of i mm: banner almost plane, ovate- 

 lanceolate, 4 mm. wide at base, slightly keeled; wings narrow, 

 2mm. wide, the lower edges not meeting until near the apex: 

 keel not strongly curved, barely 2 mm. wide at the middle, 

 bearded only near the slightly narrowed base; immature pods 

 obliquely ovate, about 17 mm. long, i cm. wide, villous. 



The type is no. 7827, collected May 5, 1905, at Tehachapi, 

 Kern county, California, along the railroad a short distance west 

 of the town. It is a species remarkable for its small narrow red 

 flowers. Some of the specimens show only a short central flow- 

 erino- branch much shorter than the leaves, while others have in 



