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and pubescent; seg-ments lance-oblong, acutish, a little over 2 

 mm. wide, veined, somewhat pubescent: petals white, about 4 

 mm. long-, or a little more than half the leng-th of tlie calyx seg-- 

 ments, strongly involnte, 2 mm wide when spread out, the end 

 trnncate: filaments eqnalling or slightly exceeding the calyx, 

 flatten.ed and i mm. wide at base, tapering to luilf that thickness 

 at the apex, glabrous; anthers lanceolate, 2 mm. long the apex 

 blunt: st\le exserted i or 2 mm. beyond the stamens, 2-cleft and 

 darkened to about the meeting point with the stamens; stigmas 

 capitate: immature fruit inclined to the oval in outline, prol^ably 

 yellowish, densely armed with weak, glandular bristles. 



The t}-pe, in my herbarium, is C. F. Baker's 29 15,. collected 

 May 6, 1905, at Vacaville, Solano count}-, California, said to be 

 "frequent in shady bottoms." It was determined by Professor 

 Greene as ''I^il'fs Victoj'is Greene," and distributed as such by 

 Mr, Baker. A comparison wuth the original description as well 

 as with typical specimens of R. Vicioris shows that this plant is 

 abundantly distinct. It differs considerably in general appear- 

 ance, and the flower characters are unlike. The type specii:ien 

 shows only a very slight development of new growtli, the most 

 cf the branches giving evidence of but one or two millimeters 

 grovvth during a season. 



The flower character at least, of the R. Victoris of Jepson's 

 Flora of Middle Western California, is apparently drawn from 

 specimens of R. Greeneianum. 



/ Lupiims Bridges li (S. Wats.) 

 1905. 

 Liipinus albicaulis var. Bridgcsii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 



8: 527. 1873. 

 Lupiniis formosus var. BHdgcsii Greene, Fl. Fran. 42. 1891. 

 "The more villous form, with largest flowers and densest 

 racem.es. — Near San Francisco.'' [Bridges, No. 64, 64a.]; — 

 Watson, I. c. 



"Sti-pules narrowly lanceolate, the v/liole plant silvery- 



