74 LEAFLETS. 



L. HTPOLBUCUS. Small tufted alpine perennial, the multicipi- 

 tous caudex scarcely woody, the long petioles and scarcely longer 

 stems slender, canescently villous, as also the leaves above : 

 leaflets 7 to 9, unequal, somewhat elliptical, the largest i inch 

 long, densely white-villous beneath and that face somewhat 

 concave: racemes short, of about 3 whorls of middle-sized deep- 

 purple flowers, the petals subequal, keel not much curved, 

 retrorsely villous-ciliolate from below the middle almost to apex. 



Near the summit of White Chief Peak, Mr. Oulbertson, 16 

 July, 1904, being n. 4416 of Baker's distribution somewhat like 

 Z. Danaics as to size and habit, but with shorter peduncles, 

 shorter racemes, and foliage remarkable for a dense white indu- 

 ment covering the lower face only. The same is in U. S. Herb. 

 from Mt. Goddard, by Hall & Chandler, n. 707, collected in 

 July, 1900. 



L. HTPOLASius. Low alpine perennial not cespitose, the stout- 

 ish stems very leafy and suberect from the branches of the short 

 caudex ; petioles slender, leaflets 5 to 7, very unequal, all broad 

 and obtuse, cuneate-oblong, \ to \ inch long, appressed-villous 

 above, densely villous-tomentose beneath: racemes short, subses- 

 sile, the short peduncles stout ; whorls of flowers 3 or 4: corolla 

 purple, \ inch long, petals equal, keel falcate, retrorse-ciliolate 

 above the middle. 



ParweU Gap, Calif., at 10,000 feet, C. A. Purpus, 1897, his n. 

 5221 as in U. S. Herb. Well distinguished from all other 

 alpine lupines of the district Ijy its stout upright habit, snbses- 

 sile racemes and broad leaflets. 



Lotus cupeeus. Low slender flaccid and nearly glabrous 

 perennial, the decumbent stems only 5 to 8 inches long, leafy 

 thi'oughout : lowest leaves of but 3 cuneate-obovate truncate or 

 retuse leaflets, tlie leaflets of the others 5 to 7 and cuni';ite- 

 oblong, acutish ; stipules of all small, herbaceous, mora or less 

 distinctly ovate : umbels little exceeding the leaves, the lowest 

 bractless and only 1 or 2-flowered, the others witli 3 or 4 flowers 

 subtended by an unifoliate bract quite like the ordinal'}' leaflet : 

 calyx turbinate, the triangular-subulate teeth shorter than the 

 tube : corolla short, not longer than the breadth of the broad 



