226 LEAFLETS. 
In a paragraph beginning on page 87, preceding, I have already 
outlined a group which I shall proceed to discuss under the new 
generic name CARTIERA. These are very far removed from Dis- 
accanthus in habit, being perennials, and having a thick foliage 
which in texture is intermediate between coriaceous and succu- 
lent, and is either entire or merely toothed. On the stem under 
the inflorescence the scattered foliage takes the form of large 
cordate bracts, in this recalling Pleiocardia, as I said. The calyx 
is closed, its sepals thick and subsucculent, very often showing 
the peculiarity of a few spinulose or bristly hairs at tip, just 
below a narrow scarious margin. The pods are large, flat, filled 
with seeds not so thin, but usually wing-margined. 
The following is a partial list of the species of CARTIERA: 
C. CORDATA. Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. under Streptanthus. 
C. CRASSIFOLIA. Greene, Pitt., iv, 227, “ e 
C. aRGUTA. Greene, “ EEN h 
C. HowELLII. Wats. Am. Acad. xx, 353, “ s 
C. BARBATA. Wats. Am. Acad. xxv, 125, “ a 
C 
. MULTICEPS. Leafy caudex much branched, surmounting a 
long taproot: basal leaves round-obovate, less than 1 inch long, 
sharply serrate-toothed: flowering stems simple, 4-6 inches 
high, their many leaves oval, entire, sessile, clasping, all the 
herbage glabrous, very glaucous: pods linear, more than 3 inches 
long, 1 line wide, slightly curved upwards: seeds oval, nar- 
rowly winged. 
Guano Ranch, Harney Co., Oregon, 24 July, 1896, Coville & 
Leiberg, n. 2, as in U. S. Herb. 
C. LEPTOPETALA. Size of the last, not multicipitous, herbage 
thinner, less glaucous: lowest leaves spatulate-obovate, toothed 
across the summit, the cauline subquadrate-oblong, 14 inches 
long, acute, often toothed at apex, flower more than } inch long, 
limb of petals very long and narrow; tips of sepals prickly: 
pods unusually narrow, 2-3 inches long. 
