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AMYGDAL.ACEAE 



AMygdalus andersonii (Gray) Greene, Fl. Fran. 49. 1891. 



Prunus Andersonii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 337. 1868. 



No. 8186, collected May 5, along the base of the White 

 mountains opposite Laws, Inyo county in slate formation. Also 

 noticed at several places in the Sierra foothills west of Bishop 

 in granite, at elevations of 4000 to 5000 feet. The type came 

 from "foothills of the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, near 

 Carson." 



FABACEAE 



LuPiNUS BENTHAMi Heller, Muhlenbergia, 3: 61. 1905. 



Lupimis leptophytlus Benth. Trans. Hurt. Soc. II. 1: 409. 

 1835; not C. & S. Linnaea, 5: 589. 1830. 



No. 8136, collected April 11, in Madera county on grassy 

 hillsides near the San Joaquin river abput three miles above 

 PoUasky. Abundant in colonies here and there on the hills. 

 One of our handsomest species. 



Lupin us micranthus Dougl. 



No. 8154, collected April 11, on hillsides near Pollasky, 

 Fresno county. This is a larger flowered form than the type, 

 and is common in the San Joaquin valley for some distance 

 north of Fresno. 



Lupinus superbiis 



Herbaceous perennial about i meter higK",' the stems stout, 

 1 cm. in diameter, hollow, rather brittle, glabrous or nearly so, 

 greenish-yellow: leaflets normally 9, light green, elliptical-lan- 

 ceolate, about 5 cm. long, 12 mm. wide at the middle, the upper- 

 most little reduced, acute, armed with a sharp mucro over i mm. 

 long, glabrous above, villous beneath; petioles of the lower 

 leaves 1 dm. long, those of the uppermost half that length, all 

 more or less pubescent with appressed hairs; stipules membran- 

 ous.,, lanceolate, those of. the lower leaves i cm. long, long acu- 



