WEST AMERICAN CRUCIFERA. 83 
Bull. Torr. Club, xiii. 142 (1886), also Fl. Fr. 261, and Man. 17. 
I did not believe that the plant with the remarkably irregular 
calyx described by me could be that which had been intended 
by Hooker’s figure until I had seen the originals of S. g/andulosus 
at Kew. Such falsification of the characters of a species is not 
publication ; and this beautiful plant was truly first described, 
and therefore first published, as A peramenus, which name 
ought to be continued in use, and Hooker’s suppressed as being 
worse than a nomen nudum. 
. MILDRED. Streptanthus Mildreda, Greene, Fl. Fr. 260. 
. BIOLETTII. S. Biolettii, Greene, Pitt. ii 225. 
. PULCHELLA. S. pulchellus, Greene, Le 
NIGRA. S. niger, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club. xiii 141. 
. ASPERA. S. asper, Greene, Pitt. ili 225. 
. ALBIDA. S. albidus, Greene, Pitt. i. 62. 
. SECUNDA. S. secundus, Greene, Fl. Fr. 261. 
HISPIDA. S. hispidus, A. Gray. Am. Acad. vi. 184. 
. VERSICOLOR. S. versicolor, Greene, Eryth. iii. 99. In 
publishing this species now nearly ten years since, I expressed 
dissatisfaction with it and its allies as members of Streptan- 
thus. The corolla in this one is extremely bilabiate. 
E. viotacea. Doubtless annual and larger, perhaps two feet 
high or more, but only the upper leaves and flowering branches 
known, these perfectly glabrous, glaucescent; leaves lance- 
linear and sagittate-clasping, remotely dentate: racemes several, 
slender, the flowers slenderly pedicellate: calyx bilabiate, the 3 
upper sepals connivent together at tip, obtusely keeled, of a 
rich violet or red-purple ; corolla as strongly bilabiate, the large 
upper petals with white-margined and rather wide limb, the 
corolla otherwise like the calyx as to color: stamens in 3 very 
unequal pairs; upper pair of filaments completely united and 
anthers greatly reduced : pods 3 inches long or more, straight, 
ascending, very narrow. 
Solitary upper and widely branched part of a plant otherwise 
unknown, collected somewhere in middle California by Dr. 
Edw. Palmer, in 1876; specimen in U. S. Herb. sheet 4297, 
Three specimens in U. S. Herb. from San Luis Obispo, by M. 
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