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abundant, often eoverin^- lar^^e areas. A handsome annual, not 

 well named, as it is frf(|uentl>' a foot liiijli, and the flowers iarj^e. 

 It is apparently eonfmed to sandy open j^round at no ;;reat dis- 

 tance from the sea from Montere)' north to vSan I'rancisco in suit- 

 able situations. The type was undoui)tedly from Monterey. 



Lupin IIS Peiideltoni 



Perennial from a thick hea\-)- rootstoek: stems lKrl)aceons, 

 numerous, 3 to 4 dm. hi.i^h, erect or ascendino^, branched from 

 the base, canescent with short white appre.s.sed or .somewhat tan- 

 gled hairs, more or less purpli.'-h above, leafy; stipules subulate, 

 5 or 6 mm. long, den.sely pubescent: petioles 3 cm. long; leaflets 

 about 7, oblauceolate, 3 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, apiculate at 

 the rounded a|3ex, densely silky on both sides with short ap- 

 pressed hairs, midvein prominent; internodes about equaling the 

 petioles; peduncles commonly short, ouh- 2 or 3 cm. long, the 

 flowering part of the stem i dm. or more long: bracts of the flow- 

 ers 5 mm. long, setaceous, silky, deciduous: pedicels 3 mm. lor.g. 

 densely silky with appres.sed hairs, as is the calyx, which is sub- 

 symmetrical at base, lobes entire, the lower one 7 mm. long, lan- 

 ceolate, the upper ovate-lanceolate, 5n:m, long, both 3 mm. wide 

 at base: corollas pale \'iolet purple when fresh, i cm. long and 

 as deep, the space between tips of banner and wings 4 mm.; ban- 

 ner appearing as if a little shorter than the other parts of th^^ 

 flower, the edges turned back, the space between them at the 

 upper end 3 mm. at the lower end 5 mm., presenting a scoop- 

 shaped cavity viewed from the rear; wings moderately inflated, 

 the body presented being 3 mm, across, open nearlv the whole 

 Length below exposing the keel, when spread out measuring 

 5 mm. acro.ss the base, 6 mm. at the middle, narrowed again to 

 4 mm. at the top, the upper side straight, the lower curved; keel 

 glabrous, 4 mm. deep to a litlle abo\'e the middle, then tapering 

 to the acute apex. 



The type, in my herbarium, is no. 8610, collected ]\Ia\- 31, 

 1907, on Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara eount\-, California, eleva- 



