58 BOTAiyrr. 



LtJPiNUS (?). Stem stout, 2° high, simple, sparsely silky-villous ; 



leaflets 9-11, obovate-lanceolate, (2' long,) subacute, glabrous above, ap- 

 pressed yUIous beneath; raceme elongated; flowers glabrous, rather large, 

 blue ; upper lip of calyx 2-toothed, lower 3-toothed ; legume broadly oblong, 

 (1' or more long, 6" broad,) about 5-seeded, very hairy ; seeds large, 2-3" in 

 diameter. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude ; June. 

 (236.) 



LuPiNUS Andeesoni. Specimens were collected near Carson City by Dr. 

 Anderson, (9, 108, and 121,) very distinct in their habit, and seeming scarcely 

 to belong to any described species. Slender and much branched, apparently 

 1° high, minutely puberulent throughout; leaflets 7, oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 or obtuse, about equaling the petioles, (1-2' long ;) j-acemes short or becoming 

 elongated, (2-6',) loosely flowered ; flowers scattered or subverticiUate, blue 

 or ochroleucous, (3-6" long ;) bracts small and ovate, much shorter than the 

 pedicels ; calyx broad-campanulate, but slightly gibbous, the lobes nearly 

 equal, entire, somewhat obtuse ; legumes subpubescent, 4r-6-seeded, (15" long, 

 A" wide.) 



LuPiNUS ToEEETi, Gray MSS., in Herb. 82 Torrey from near Washoe 

 Lake, Nevada, as also his 89 from Donner Pass a,nd 6286 Bolander from Yo- 

 Semite Valley, California, have been thus named by Dr. Gray. It is near L. 

 minimus, and likewise resembles L. aridus, with low stems, (6-12',) rufous 

 silky-villous pubescence, and dense long-bracted racemes, (2-4" long ;) leaflets 

 7, (1' long,) acute, tufted-mucronate, on long slender petioles ; bracts and 

 sepal-lobes linear-lanceolate ; flowers blue-purple, 3-5" in length ; legumes 

 silkj'-, ovate-oblong, 2-seeded. 



LuPiNUS Beeweei, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 7. 334. Small and shrubby, 

 very much branched, csespitdse, prostrate, silvery, with a closely appressed 

 silky pubescence; stipules subulate; leaflets 7-10, spatulate or-cuneate, retuse, 

 (3-4" long ;) raceipe short, (1',) densely flowered ; upper lip of the bracteo- 

 late calyx 2-parted ; corolla violet, (3-4" long ;) keel scarcely ciliate. Yo- 

 Semite Valley, (Brewer ;) near Carson City, Nevada, (Anderson.) 



Medicago sativa, L. Near Unionville, Nevada. Doubtless introduced. 

 (237.) 



Melilotus alba, Lam. Stream banks near Salt Lake City; introduced. 

 (238 ^) 



Melilotus parviflora, Desf. Lower leaflets obovate-ioundish, often 



