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Vor. III. JANUARY, 1893. No. 4. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. No. 3, 
BY MARCUS E. JONES. 
CAULANTHUS CRASSICAULIS ‘Watson, is perennial. The four 
stamens are declined and close pressed to the lower petals, and the 
two others are as tightly pressed to the upper petals, after the fashion 
of the Labiate stamens. This grows in loose soil in alkaline valleys 
as well as in better-drained localities with little alkali. It blooms 
mostly in the month of May, and is common in Western Utah as 
well as in Nevada. 
STANLEYA VIRIDIFLORA Nutt. The very imperfect description 
of the type in Coulter’s Manual, King’s Report, and the better one 
in the Flora of North America, Torrey and Gray, make it uncertain 
whether this plant is a new species or not. The salient points of the 
type are the simple stem, erect and glabrous, leaves cuneate-obovate 
(“obovate or lanceolate,” Watson in King’s Rep.), entire or few 
toothed at base of stem, upper ones rapidly reduced so that the up- 
per stem is nearly naked, entire (‘‘lanceolate, sessile, clasping,” Wat- 
son |. c.); raceme long and crowded with flowers, which are greenish 
yellow, with linear sepals and petals, anthers very long and linear, 
pedicels % inch long, stipe an inch (‘‘ % inch,’’ Watson I. c.); long 
and narrow torulose pod. Said by Nuttall to grow on shelving hills, 
and apparently by Watson in valleys. 
‘My plants, of which I have a large suite gathered at different , 
places, and which I carefully studied as they grew, are short-lived 
perennials (3 years old at least), with stems all ridged and more or 
less winged throughout, the wings sometimes about a line high; 
leaves lanceolate, barely acute and entire, but with two rounded 
lobes at the truncate base, root leaves pseudo-petioled and wing 
_ margined, as also the lower stem leaves, 6 to 12 inches long and 34 
inch wide, thick, leathery, and light green, smelling like cabbage, 
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