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appressed pubescent: flowers dense in spikes i dm. lon^: bracts 

 persistent, 7 mm. long, the ovate ba.se 4 mm. wide, tapering to 

 the acuminate apex: pedicels .short, about 3 mm. long, densely 

 villous: calyx densely short villous, 7 mm. long, the lobes ovate, 

 4 mm. wide at ba.se, sub-acute, the lower entire, the upper 2- 

 toothed, the teeth i mm. long with no sinus between: corollas a 

 little over i cm. long, 8 or 9 mm. deep, a space of 6 mm. between 

 the apices of banner and wing.s, the banner about 2 mm. shorter 

 than the wings, tawny from the beginning, the face narrow, 

 2 mm, wide, the edges turned back and meeting, somewhat in- 

 rolled, not flaring at base; wings long boat-shaped, pale violet 

 purple lined with dark veins, 6 mm. deep, the edges meeting ex- 

 cept under the lower calyx lobe, raised into a sharp ridge, the 

 inner face next the banner 4 mm. across, with a groove on either 

 side of the ridge; keel heavily bearded in the upper two-thirds, 

 broad, 3 mm. wide at base, 4 mm. deep for the greater part of its 

 length, the purple apex acute. 



The type is no. 8364, collected May 31, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, California, in ''McGee's 

 me.idows" in wet sandy soil on the edge of a small stream. It 

 is plentiful there, and also occurs along Bishop creek near 

 Bishop, hike L. po/yp/t}'//ifs in UahiXy hut -nol resembling it or 

 any other .species known to me. 



Lupiiius iiiyoeiisis 



Herbaceous perennial with one or more slender (3 mm.) 

 stems from the root, 5 or 6 dm. high, pubescent with short 

 spreading hairs, leafy up to the inflorescence: leaflets about 8, 

 oblanceolate, 3 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, the sub-acute apex with a 

 mucro 1 mm. long, densely covered on both sides with snb-ap- 

 pressed hairs, midvein prominent: petioles of the lower leaves 

 about 8 cm. long, the uppermost half that length: stipules i cm. 

 long or less, half of the length adnate, the free portion subulate- 

 acuminate: inflorescence i dm. long on peduncles 3 or 4 cm. 

 long, the pubescence on the pedicels and calyx sub-appressed as 



