California, Douglas !—A stouter plant than the preceding, and more
villous with long soft hairs. Leaflets oblong-spatulate. Flowers white,
stained with pink. Legumes villous, 2-seeded.
t t Stem leafy, brandling : leaflets mostly spatulate : flowers somewhat verticillate,
bracteolate: upper lip of the calyx 2-cleft or 2-parted : seeds large,
somewhat reniform, compressed, colored, roughish. Agardh.
4. L. hirsutissimus (Benth.) : very hirsute with bristly hairs; stem low,
nearly erect; leaflets obovate-cuneiform, mucronulate ; . stipules subulate ;
flowers mostly alternate, on short pedicels; bracts subulate, about the length
of the calyx; bracteoles caducous ; lips of the calyx nearly equal; the upper
one deeply 2-cleft, the lower entire.—Benth. ! in hort. trans. 1. c. p. 409;
Agardh ! 1. c. p. 4.
California, Douglas !—A very distinct but not ornamental species, clothed
-throughout with long and rigid spreading bristly hairs. Flowers reddish-
purple.
5. L. gracilis (Agardh) : small, diffuse, very hairy; leaflets minute,
obovate-cuneiform, canaliculate; peduncle short; flowers on short pedicels,
few, alternately disposed along the very flexuous rachis; bracts setaceous,
persistent, longer than the pedicels; calyx bracteolate; the upper lip 2-parted,
the lower somewhat 3-toothed; legumes hirsute, about 5-seeded.—Agardh !
1. c. p. 15, t. 1, ƒ. 2, not of Nutt. L. microphyllus, Nutt.-! mss. not of
Desrouss.
California, Douglas ! Plains of St. Diego, Nuttall !—Plant 4-6 inches
high. Leaflets 4-5 lines in length,- hirsute, many times shorter than the petioles.
Flowers 7-10, at length rather remote. Corolla blue and white,
Nutt, (purplish-rose color, Agardh)-, the wings longenthan thevexillum.—A
small and very distinct species, allied to L. bicolor.
6. L. concinnus (Agardh): small, very densely villous with soft whitish
hairs; leaves mostly radical; leaflets spatulate; stipules subulate-setaceous ;
flowers a little alternate, in a close ovate spike, on very short pedicels; bracts
linear-subulate, shorter than the mostly ebracteolate calyx; the upper lip 2-
cleft, the lower entire or 3-denticulate.—Agardh ! 1. c. p. 6 ,1.1, f. 1 : Hook.
Sf Am. ! 1. c.
California, Douglas !—Plant 4-6 inches high, densely clothed with very
long hairs ; those of the leaves equal to the width of the leaflets themselves.
Flowers violet, with a yellow spot on the vexillum..
7. L . subearnosus (Hook.) : stem silky pubescent; leaflets 5 [7], obovate-
laneeolate, obtuse or retuse, somewhat fleshy, glabrous above, silky beneath
and on the margins ; stipules setaceous-subulate ; raceme pyramidal ; pedicels
alternate, about the length of the flowers ; calyx silky, bracteolate ; the
upper lip shorter, 2-cleft; the lower lanceolate and 3-toothed at the apex, the
intermediate tooth longest; vexillum orbicular, deep blue, with a white spot
;in the middle divided by a longitudinal fold. Hook. ! hot. mag. t. 3467.
Bejar, Texas, Berendier, (Berlandier ?) ex Hook. Brazoria, Drummond!
—Stem 8-10 inches high. Legumes linear-oblong, about 1J inch in length,
silky-tomentose, 4—5-seeded. Hook.—In the wild specimens the young
leaflets are hairy omboth sides.
8. L . Texensis (Hook.) : stem silky-pubescent; leaflets 5, lanceolate, rather
acute, glabrous above, silky beneath and on the margins ; stipules subulate
; raceme pyramidal; pedicels alternate, as long as the flowers ; calyx
silky, bracteolate ; the upper lip shorter, 2-cleft, the lower acuminate and
entire ; vexillum orbicular, deep blue, with a white spot in the middle divided
by a longitudinal fold. Hook. hot. mag. t. 3492. L. bimaculatus, Don,
in Brit.fl. gard. (ser. 2.) t. 314 ? not of Lam.
San Fe lipe , Texas, Drummond.—Much resembles L . subearnosus, but
appears d is tin c t: its habit stouter, the leaves neither fleshy nor retuse, the
flowers deeper colored, and the wings more projecting. Hook.
t t t Stem somewhat decumbent, leafy : leaflets mostly linear, canaliculate : flowers
alternate or verticellate : upper lip of the calyx 2-parted : seeds roundish,
-turgid, colored, smooth. Agardh.
9. L. nanus (Dougl.): somewhat hairy, low ; stems decumbent * leaflets
linear-spatulate ; raceme elongated, the flowers verticillate ; bracts lanceolate,
as long as the flowers, caducous ; calyx silky, ebracteolate ; the upper
lip 2-cieft, the lower-emarginate.—Benth. ! 1. c. p. 409, t. 14, ƒ. 2 ; Don,
in Brit. Jl.gard. (ser. 2.) t. 257 ; Agardh! 1. c. p. 11.
California, Douglas !—Stems 6-8 inches high. Flowers large, regularly
verticillate in somewhat distant whorls, bluish-purple. L egumes about 3-
seeded, silky-pubescent when young.
10. L. leptophyllus (Benth.) : hairy ; stems erect; leaflets narrowly linear
; raceme spicate, with the flowers approximate and somewhat alternate;
bracts linear-subulate, villous, much longer than the flowers and comose before
their expansion; calyx minutely bracteolate-; the upper lip 2-parted, the
lower 3-toothed.—Benth.! 1. c. p. 409 ; Lindl. ! hot! rest. t. 1670 : Asardh ' l. e.p. li.
California, Douglas !—Stems 1-2 feet high, sparsely hirsute with spreading
hairs. Leaflets very narrow, 1-14 inch long. Flowers bluish-lilac, with
a deep crimson stain on the middle of the vexillum.
11. L. truncatus (Nutt. ! mss.) : pubescent with appressed hairs, at length
almost glabrous ; leaflets 5-7, linear, attenuate at the base, truncate or somewhat
3-toothed at the apex ; stipules minute, linear, short; raceme elongated,
the flowers alternate ; bracts shorter than the pedicels, subulate, persistent
; calyx bracteolate, the upper lip 2-parted, the lower minutely 3-toothed
or entire;- legume hirsute, elongated, 6-7-seeded— Hook. Up Am . ! hot.
Beechey, suppl. p : 336.
St. Francisco, California, Douglas ! St. Diego, Nuttall !—“ Flowers
deep.purple, sm a ll; the vexillum shorter than the wings. Leaflets rather
succulent, long and narrow.” Nutt.—Resembles L . linifolius and L . angus-
tifolius, to w hich latter species an imperfect specimen from C alifornia is doubtfully
referred b y Agardh.
* * Legumes constricted but scarcely interrupted between the seeds : cotyle-
dons smaller and less thick, petiolate in germination : primordial leaves not
evident before germination, alternate. Agardh.
12. L. micranthus (Dough) : hairy; leaves narrowly lanceolate, canaliculate
; peduncle elongated ; flowers somewhat verticillate (few), on very short
pedicels; calyx bracteolate, the upper lip 2-cleft; the lower entire, a little
shorter than the petals ; legumes 6-seeded. Agardh.—Dougl. ! in hot. reg
t. 1251 ; Agardh, l. c. p. 14.
In gravelly places, along the southern tributaries of the Oregon, and in the
interior of California, Douglas !—Differs from L. bicolor, according to Douglas,
in flowering from 4 to 6 weeks earlier, in being more slender, in the
shorter wings of the corolla, nearly sessile flowers, fleshy leaves, larger pods,
the color and size of the seeds, and granulated roots ; to which Agardh adds
the leaves glabrous on the upper surface ; but Nuttall remarks that the roots