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IvEAFI^ETS. 



sparsely pilose : leaflets about 7, oblong-linear, acute, about 1 

 inch long, thin, sparsely appressed -pubescent : racemes sub- 

 sessile, 2 to 3/^ inches long in full flower, of about 4 or 5 

 verticils, these rarely indistinct : broad upper lip of calyx 

 cleft deeply, the lower entire, the whole exterior appressed- 

 villous but not densely so ; corolla purple, broader than long, 

 the breadth about | inch; keel naked: pod 1 inch long, 

 appressed-villous, 6-seeded ; seeds not strongly compressed, 

 obliquely round-oval, grayish with a few markings and many 

 small dots. 



A common species of middle California westward. I came 

 to know it as undescribed the year before my field work in 

 California came to an end, now fifteen years since. When it 

 was sent me, in fine specimens, by Mr. Carl F. Baker, in 

 1902, I assigned it the name now given above. Mr. Baker 

 distributed it, as his number 610. A fine array of other speci- 

 mens is at this moment before me, gathered later, in 1908, 

 from the original locality, by Mr. Charles Piper Smith, now 

 of Logan, Utah. 



LupiNus LATissiMus. Perennial, subacaulescent, with stout 

 upright scapiform peduncles more than a foot high and sur- 

 passing the leaves, the plant pale with a somewhat velvety 

 tomentum, except as to leaflets, these rather silky : leaflets 

 rather constantly 5 only, very unequal, but all of remarkable 

 breadth, the largest 2 inches long, more than ^ inch broad 

 above the middle, in outline somewhat obovate- elliptic, cus- 

 pidate-mucronate : raceme of very large flowers 5 to 7 inches 

 long, dense, subverticillate : upper lip of calyx very long and 

 acute but deeply cleft, the lower little longer, entire : corolla 

 about % inch wide, purple, keel short and broad, scarcely 

 falcate, strongly ciliate below the naked apex : young pods 

 short, oblong, densely silky-tomentose. 



Collected at the Tassajara Hot Springs, Monterey Co., 

 California, in June, 1901, by A. D. E. Elmer. A lupine of 

 unusual aspect and mode of growth, the leaflets few and 

 remarkably broad. 



