292 Miihlenbetgia, Volume 2 



LupiNUS BicoLOR LiTidl. Bot. Reg. 13: pi. //op. 1827. 



No. 8451, collected April 20, in sandy soil in San Mateo 

 county between the Southern Pacific and Ocean Shore tracks 

 near Ocean View, elevation about 400 feet. It is also common 

 in sandy soil in the western part of San Francisco near the Ma- 

 rine Hospital. Douglas collected the type "in the interior of 

 the country about the Columbia River, from Fort Vancouver to 

 the branches of Lewis and Clarke's River, always on dry grav- 

 elly soil under the shade of trees in the open plains." Piper, in 

 Cont U. S. Nat, Herb. 1 1 : 353, says: "We suspect strongly 

 that there is some error about the type locality. The species 

 seems to be common in California, and extends into Oregon, but 

 no specimens from Washington have been seen." Our speci- 

 mens agree fairly well with the illustration of the original, and 

 San Francisco may really be the type locality. 



LUPINUS CARNOSULUS Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2: 144. 1886. 



No. 8471, collected April 27, back of Alum Rock Park, 

 Santa Clara county, elevation about 800 feet, on roadside banks 

 in rich stiff black soil. It is a species of the hill country, the 

 type from "near the village of Olema, Marin County." Jepson 

 well states its habitat when he says "especially characteristic of 

 depressions in hills caused by recent or old land slides." But 

 he makes the mistake of attributing this habitat to L. affinis, a 

 lowland species, common in the Santa Clara valley. The two, 

 so far as I know, never encroach, one upon the territory of the 

 other. 



Lupiiius collinus (Greene) 



Lupinus albi/rons vax. collinus Greene, Fl. Fran. 46. 1891. 



No. 8462, collected April 25, on the western end of the 

 San Bruno hills, San Mateo county, elevation about 700 feet, 

 common on grassy, stony northerly slopes. The type came from 

 "rocky summits about the Presidio, San Francisco." Our sta- 

 tion is not more than three or four miles distant from the Pre- 

 sidio, and the conditions similar. 



