102 Erysimum Grandifiorum Null. [zoE 



The original description of Douglas with fuller notes by Hook- 

 er here follow : 



" C. capitatus ; subasper, foliis lineari-laneeolatis magis 

 minusve dentatis vel integris basi longe atteuuatis cauleque pube 

 bipartita arctissime appressa strigosis, floribus (majusculis) dense 

 corynibosis, siliquis pedicello triplo longioribus." — Douglas MSS. 



"Radix, ut videtur, anuuus. Caidis basi ascendeus et ramosus, 

 demum erectus, pedalis et ultra, acute angulatus, tactu subscaber, 

 pube bipartita subeanescens. Folia remotiuscula, 3-5 pollicaria, 

 pateutia, lineari-lanceolata, majis minusve dentata vel integer- 

 rima, basi in petiolum longe attenuata, pube bipartita, arctissime 

 appressa, strigosa: suprcma majis angusta minus basi attenuata. 

 Mores majusculi, in capitulum duas uncias latum dense racemosi, 

 flavi. Pcdicclli 5-6 lineas longi, appresse pilosi. Calyx etiam 

 simili modo pilosus, sepalis linearibus, 2 basi saccatis. Petala 

 limbo ovato, uugue sepalis longiore. Germen lineare, rectum. 

 Stylus crassiusculus, lineam lougus. Stigma mediocre, capitatum, 

 bilobum, lobis rotundatis. Siliquae nostris exemplaribus 

 absunt: sed, Chamlssonis fide." Here follows a quotation from 

 the description of Chamisso given above. 



Professor Greene renames this species, Erysimum capitatum Fl. 

 Francis, p. 269, and redescribes it under that name. According 

 to the experience of the writer the flowers are decidely fragrant, a 

 bunch of them filling a room with the odor of the "wall flower;" 

 the flowers are a bright canary yellow when they first expand 

 changing to a creamy yellow after pollination. The earlier 

 flowers are much larger than those that are in bloom when the 

 pods are present and the early inflorescence is truly capitate. 



"Erysimum Califomicum Greene Eryth III. 69, Biennial, 

 stout and simple, or with few branches, 1-2 y? feet high: herbage 

 scarcely canescent, but thinly covered with closely appressed 

 divided hairs, the divisions of which are stout and subulate: 

 Leaves runcinate-toothed, or the upper cauline mostly entire: 

 raceme rather dense: Flowers large, yellow, fading to cream- 

 color, very fragrant, sepals more than 'j inch long, the inner 

 with saccate base, the outer longer, unguiculate: limb of corolla 

 1% inches long, only ^ inch broad, not cruciform, the petals 

 diverging in pairs: anthers slenderly sagittate, the 4 longer 



