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minate, those of the upper ones shorter, -with less prolonged 

 acumination: inflorescence 2 dm. long or less: flowers bright 

 violet purple, dense but sub-verticillate on slender pubescent 

 pedicels 3 or 4 mm. long: bracts linear setaceous, 6 or 7 mm. 

 long, villous, deciduous: calyx 6 mm. long, silky, the haira 

 somewhat spreading, both lobes entire, acute, the upper with a 

 short blunt and rounded spur-like base: corollas 1 2 mm. long 

 and as deep, a space of 6 mm. between the tips of banner and 

 wings, face of banner narrow, 2 mm. across, grooved, unspotted, 

 the edges turned back and parallel for the whole distance, the 

 space between 2 mm. wide; wings deep boat-bhaped, narrowly 

 inflated, closed all around except the space under the lower 

 calyx lobe, the edges raised and sharp, the inner face next the 

 banner 4 or 5 mm. across, with a groove on either side of the 

 raised edges; keel glabrous, rather strongly curved, about 3 mm* 

 deep at base, 4 mm. across the middle, from that point tapering 

 to the acuminate purple apex: pods densely villous, immature 

 ones 3 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, about 8-seeded, the seeds whitish, 

 unspotted. 



The type is no. 8349, collected May 30, 1906, in wet mead- 

 ows about a mile northeast of Bishop, Inyo county, California. 

 The spikes closely set with bright violet purple flowers give it 

 a very ornamental appearance. It occurs in several meadows 

 near Bishop. The relationship is with the group of which L, 

 Polyphyllus is the type. 



Liupinus pratensis 



Herbaceous perennial, many plants growing together in 

 clumps: stems 7 or 8 dm. high, hollow, 7 or 8 mm. in diameter, 

 not brittle, light green, pubescent with short appressed hairs, 

 rather leafy: leaflets about 6, dull green, oblong-lanceolate, 

 5-7 cm. long, rarely i cm. wide, acute and with a short mucro, 

 pubescent on both sides with scattered fine appressed hairs; peti- 

 oles of lower leaves about i dm. long, the upper ones reduced: 

 stipules narrowly lanceolate and acuminate, 5 or 6 mm. long, 



