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A NEW LUPINE FROM CALIFORNIA. 



By J. W. CONGDON. 



liupiiius deflexus 



Annual: plant of a dull light green color, softly pubescent, 

 at length partially glabrate; stems simple or with several large 

 erect branches from the base: leaves thin, on slender, somewhat 

 longer petioles; leaflets oblong-obovate or oblong-spatulate: flow- 

 ers in racemes terminal on stem and branches w^hich are at first 

 about two inches long, but lengthening finally, sometimes to a 

 foot, scattered, dull white, turning pinkish, on slender, pilose 

 pedicels: lips of the calyx small and narrow, strongly pilose: 

 standard reflexed; wings very broad and rounded, almost hemis- 

 pherical; the falcate keel somewhat longer than the standard: 

 pods bent down toward the stem after flowering, three-fourths of 

 an inch long, oblong, thin-walled, strongly ribbed between the 

 5-7 seeds, tipped with the permanent style: seeds hardly a line 

 in diameter, smooth, unspotted, dull, flattish, with strongly pro- 

 tuberant center. 



This lupine, belonging to the same group with L. Siiveri^ 

 was found in April and May, 1903, in a small sandy tract on 

 Mariposa creek, about four miles below Mariposa. 



