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actnninate and aristate point, with a tooth on either side^ or 

 sometimes only one tooth present, or both absent rroin the iuuer 

 calyces, strongly five-veined, one of these along each margin, 

 and two brandling from the midvein in the upper half; flowers 

 numerous, of a rich purple below, white above, twice the length 

 of tlie calyx; banner obovate-oblong, nearly 3 mm. wide across 

 the rounded and notched apex, strongly concave on the ventral 

 side, and slightly curved back at the apex, the dorsal side show- 

 ing- 2 sharp ridge: wings elliptical-ovate, a little more tlian i 

 mm. wide^ acutish, .standing slightly away from the keel; keel 

 about I mm, wide at the enlarged, somewhat hood-shaped end, 

 vvhich is tipped by a slender slightly downciirved apiciilation 

 about I mm. long. 



My No. 6691, first collected May 7, 1903, in moist grassy 

 places in sandy pine woods at Pacific Grove, !\Ionterey county, 

 California, but its time of greatest profusion was about two 

 weeks later. It is one of the most beautifiil clovers, and appar- 

 ently local, as it has been seen at no other place. It is a rela- 

 tive of 7T variegatum^ or what passes for that species in Cali- 

 fornia, and the two often occur in close proximity, but could 

 never be confused. 



It may be remarked in this connection that the flowers of 

 Trifolium are seldom described, except in the most superficial 

 way. Indeed, Lojacouo^s paper in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. i5r i833, 

 and Miss Eastwood's description of T. tenerum in Bulk Torr. 

 Chtb, 29: 81. 1902, are about the only really good examples 

 known to me. 

 Stachys rjiiuosa 



Perennial, yomig plants simple or almost so, in age becom- 

 ing divaricately branched, often becoming 6-8 mw. ^■^f^^ the 

 lower branches comm^o-nly equalling the height of tlic plant, tlie 

 others becoming successively shorter, thus making the plant 

 somewhat pyramidal in outline, all stout, quadrate, 5 mm. across, 

 markedly pubescent with rather soft straggly hairs, some of 

 which are forked, the angles marked by a prominent rounded 



