106 -leguminos^;. 



fl. blue, changing to dull brown: keel ciliolate below the middle.— By 

 streamlets and on wooded northward slopes of the Coast Bange at low 

 altitudes: common in the hills near Berkeley. May — August. 



13. L. littoralis, Dougl. Stems clustered, decumbent or ascending, 

 1 — 2 ft. long, from yellow roots that are somewhat fleshy and fusiform; 

 herbage canescently silky: leaflets 5—7, acute, 1 in. long, silky on both 

 sides: fl. distinctly and rather remotely verticillate in a short-peduncled 

 raceme: calyx-lips subequal, entire: banner red, shorter than the blue 

 wings.: keel ciliate: pod linear, hirsute: seeds linear, brown with black 

 spots. — Near Point Keyes, on seashore sands. 



-i — i — i — Suffrutescent or shrubby species. 



14. L. albifrons, Benth. Arborescent, the distinct trunk-like woody 

 stem 1 — 3 ft. high, parted into spreading leafy branches, these ending in 

 a rather long-peduncled loose raceme: leaflets 7 — 9, oblanceolate, 1 in. 

 long or more, silvery-silky on both sides: fl. verticillate, large, deep blue: 

 upper calyx-lip broad, cleft to the middle, or less deeply; lower entire; 

 petals subequal, the broad banner with a whitish spot which soon changes 

 to rose-purple; keel ciliate: pod 2 in. long, 5 — 9-seeded: seed oval, 2 lines 

 long, brownish, encircled marginally by a dark line. Var. collinus, 

 Greene. Smaller in all its parts and with no trunk-like stem, the branches 

 decumbent from a short caudex. — Very common on clayey slopes and 

 along ravines; the variety on rocky summits about the Presidio, and on 

 the islands in the Bay. Feb. — April. 



15. L. jucnndus, Greene. Shrubby, 2 — 4 ft. high; the branches as- 

 cending, leafy, ending in a long-peduncled rather loose raceme: leaves 

 silky-canescent; leaflets 7 — 9, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, not very 

 unequal: fl. very distinctly whorled: calyx -lips subequal, the upper bifid: 

 corolla % in. long, mainly dark violet, but with a yellow spot in the 

 middle of the banner which soon turns to a dark tawny red, the very 

 margin white changing to rose-red; heel naked; banner notably smaller 

 than the other petals. — Vaca Mountains. (L. tricolor, Greene, not of 

 garden catalogues). 



16. L. eminens, Greene. Of almost arborescent form, 3—6 ft. high : 

 branches stoutish ascending, very leafy, ending in a rather short and 

 dense short-peduncled raceme: growing branches and both faces of the 

 leaves silvery-silky: leaflets 7—9, very unequal, the longest \% in., the 

 smallest barely 1 in. long: fl. scarcely whorled in the raceme; upper 

 calyx-lobe very broad, scarcely notched, the lower narrow, entire: corolla 

 about % in. long, purple, the banner shorter than the other petals, 

 changing from whitish to tawny; keel naked: pods villuus, rather short, 

 almost erect, about 4-seeded. — Description drawn from a plant of the 

 Santa Inez Mts.; but the same" appears to occur on Mt. Tamalpais. 



