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part of the stem and the calyces are very hairy. This is certainly one of the largest 

 and most beautiful herbaceous plants of the family of the Leguminosce, resembling the 

 Lupinus plumosus. The petioles and peduncles are more than a foot long, and the 

 round-oval leaflets are from 3" to 3b" in diameter. It grows in damp places and 

 flowers in August. 



TRIFOLIUM fimbria™, Lindl. Bot. Reg. T. 1070. Torr. and Gr. Fl. Amer. vol. 

 i. p. 317. 



HOSACKIA grandiflora, Benth. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 323. Easily 

 distinguished by its large umbellate flowers, nearly an inch long ; each umbel is gene- 

 rally, provided with a large orbicular-ovate and sessile foliole. Granitic hills on the 

 creek sides. 



H. bicolor, Dougl. Bot. Reg. T. 1257. Lotus pinnatus, Hook. Bot. Mag. T. 2913. 

 Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 322. In wet places by the creek. 



H. Purshiana, Benth. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 327. A small form. 



H. (microlotus) brachtcarpa, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 306. "Annua, a, basi ramosa, 

 villosa ; foliis 4 — 5, obovatis oblongisve ; floribus solitariis, brevissime pedunculatis, 

 ebracteatis ; dentibus calycinis lanceolato-subulatis, tubo duplo longioribus ; legumine 

 oblongo, turgido. piloso, calycem breviter superanti." 



" Stem subramose, 3 — 4" high, leaves smaller than those of H. subpinnata, legume 

 2-3-seeded, 3 — 4'" long, lb'" wide, divided in very thin and diaphanous cells." 



Mr. Pratten's plant is very small, suffruticose and branching, softly villous through- 

 out. Branchlets short, 3 — 4 flowered ; leaflets 3 — 5, ovate or obovate lanceolate mu- 

 cronulate. Stipules minute, very villous. Flowers solitary, subsessile, alternate. 

 Calyx very villous, bilabiate, with linear subulate divisions, much longer than the 

 tube. Legume erect, oblong, obtuse, inflated, very woolly, longer than the calyx. 

 Seeds orbicular, compressed, deeply umbilicate. Hills. August. 



LUPINUS concinnus, Agardh. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 372. 



L. nanus, Dougl. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 373. Several forms. 



L. latifolius, Agardh. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 375. 



L. albicaulis, Dougl. L. fahifer, Nutt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 378. 



L. RiviJLARis, Lindl. L. labiatus, Nutt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 376. 



L. Douglassii, Agardh. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 380. 



PICKERINGIA Montana, Nutt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol- i. p. 388. Unfor- 

 tunately, as in Nuttall and Douglass's specimens, Pratten's have no fruit. 



