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it and up to the single and terminal raceme, rather conspicu- 

 ously villous-hirsute with long hairs either horizontally spread- 

 ing or somewhat deflexed, the short slender petioles similarly 

 hairy, these at base subtended by a pair of large oblong or 

 narrowly oval herbaceous stipules entirely free from the 

 petioles and from each other, /4 inch long or more and acute ; 

 leaflets about 7, oblong-oblanceolate, 1 inch long or less, acute, 

 canescent on both faces with a dense appressed short-silkiness ; 

 raceme subsessile, 5 to 7 inches long, the rachis, pedicels and 

 calyx short-silky-villous ; flowers rather definitely verticel- 

 late, the whorls not at all crowded ; corolla about /^ inch 

 long, dull bluish and white, the banner shorter than the 

 wings, the long keel falcate, naked. 



Specimens from an altitude of 6800 feet in the Californian 

 Sierra, on the Sequoia Forest Reservation in Fresno County. 

 Collected by Mr. Ralph Hopping, 29 June, 1911. The species 

 is a remarkable one among Californian perennial lupines on 

 account of its large herbaceous free stipules. The specific 

 name is but an adaptation of the geographic name Fresno, 

 which Latinized is Fraxinus. 



LuPiNUS HABROCOMUS. Perennial with very leafy stems 

 2 feet high or more, strongly striate-angled and notably brittle 

 rather than flexible, clothed with a rather copious but very 

 fine and soft-spreading pubescence, bearing at summit a single 

 short-peduncled and rather lax raceme of large flowers : basal 

 leaves not seen, those of the stem midway and upwards large, 

 on ascending petioles of 2 inches or more, and with subulate- 

 lanceolate hyaline very villous stipules ; leaflets about 8, 

 almost lanceolate, tapering almost equally from near the mid- 

 dle to each end, 2 inches long or more, very thin, quite green 

 despite a not very sparse indument of very fine appressed hairs 

 which only along the margins, and the midvein beneath, be- 

 comes dense, forming a silvery-villous line : rachis of raceme, 

 as also the pedicels, villous-hirsutulous ; calyx almost hyaline, 

 purplish like the petals, yet appressed-villous ; length of the 

 very broadly oval wing petals V2 inch, the banner notably 



