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CLEOME lutea. 
Golden Cleome. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPPARIDACE. 
CLEOME. Botanical Register, vol. 16, fol. 1312: 
C. lutea; glabra, foliis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongis lanceolatis utrinque 
acutis integris, sepalis basi tantim connatis, petalis oblongo-ellipticis 
subsessilibus, staminibus sequalibus, fructu lineari brevi stipite longiore. 
Cleome lutea. Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 1. 70. 6. 25, Torrey § Gray, 1. 122. 
Cleome aurea. Torrey & Gray, I. ¢. 
Peritoma aurea. Nuttall in Journ. Acad. Phil. 7. 15. 
A rather pretty hardy annual from Fort Vancouver, on 
the North-west Coast of America, whence the seeds were pro- 
cured by the late Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq. It flowers 
freely in July and August, and requires rather a strong soil 
and dry situation. The plants are subject to damping off, 
‘ and will not seed in a confined situation. 
In Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North America, Cleome 
aurea is considered different from C. lutea, because it is larger 
in all its parts, and the stamens are equal instead of being 
four long with small anthers, and two short with long narrow 
anthers. But I have ascertained, by the examination of 
authentic specimens, that Sir William Hooker’s artist has 
entirely misrepresented the stamens of C. lutea, and that they 
are in fact exactly like those of the plant before us. It is, 
therefore, necessary to unite these two supposed species. 
It will now appear that this plant inhabits the North- 
west Coast of America, from the plains of the Platte to Lewis 
River, in inundated places, and on the Rocky and Oregon 
Mountains. 
Fig. 1. shews the stamens, ovary, and disk. 2. is a trans- 
verse section of the ovary. 
