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minating the more or less scape-like stem: bracts deciduous, 

 unknown: pedicels 3 or 4 mm. long, villous: flowers^ violet-blue, 

 sub-verticillate: calyx villous, 7 mm. long, the lobes about 

 equal, the lower lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm. wide at base, the 

 upper broad, 5 mm. wide at base, 2-lobed, the sinus 3 mm. deep, 

 2 mm. wide, the apices slightly incurved: corollas 15 mm. long, 

 12 mm. deep, with a space of 8 mm. between the apices of ban- 

 ner and wings; face of banner yellowish, purple dotted below 

 where it is 4 mm. wide, tapering to less than 2 mm. above, the 

 edges turned back and meeting in the upper half, the lower half 

 flaring; wings inflated to deep boat-shape, 7 mm. deep, the edges 

 not raised, meeting all around except for a narrow space extend- 

 ing a littls above the lower calyx lobe, the face next the banner 

 5 mm. across, somewhat convex; keel lightly bearded in the 

 upper half, 2 mm. deep at base, 5 mm. at the middle, then taper- 

 ing gradually to the .short-acuminate apex. 



The type is no. 8359, collected May 31, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, California, about a mile 

 beyond the house in "McGee's meadows," in coarse granite sand 

 among low desert shrubs. In habit it is something like such 

 species as Z. minimus^ procerus^ etc., but not referable to any 

 of them. Remarkable for its short, broad leaves and large flow- 

 ers. 



lyUPiNUS BRIDGESII (Wats.) Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: ri2. 1905. 



Lupinus albicaulis var. Bridgesii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, 

 8:527. 1873. 



Lupinus formosus var. Bridgesii Greene, Fl. Fran. 42. 

 1891. 



No. 8162, collected April 12, in Madera county, on high 

 grassy hillsides near the San Joaquin river about five miles 

 above Pollasky. Also noted along the river at Pollasky. Per- 

 haps not this species, but resembling it more than any of the 

 others. 



