143 
Pl. Gamb., 183; Watson, Bot. Cal. i, 41; Greene, Bull. Cal. 
Acad. 2o1, 
Thelypodium neglectum, Marcus F. Jones, Am. Nat. xvii., 
875.—This exceedingly common Californian plant has always 
seemed to me entirely out of place in Szsymbrium. It is a coarse, 
stout herb, usually many times larger than our authors seem to 
know, often growing to the height of four or five feet, and when 
young its whole aspect as well as the flavor of its herbage are 
precisely those of several species of Thelypodium when in the 
same early state. And now, from the rare 7: flavescens lately 
rediscovered near Antioch, by Mrs. Curran, I find it is only to 
be distinguished by its smaller flowers and fruit, and by its uncer- 
tain pubescence ; I say uncertain, because the larger states of the 
plant are commonly quite glabrous; although in some of the 
forms there is a hairiness which extends even to the pods. Near 
the coast, at San Francisco and northwards, the plant is smaller, 
the stem quite simple and the pods pointless and erect. One 
would like to treat this as a distinct-species, but there are larger 
intermediate states with pods spreading and even arcuate-re- 
curved. 
PHA&NICAULIS MENZIESII.—Hesperis Menziesii, Hook. Fl. ) 
Bor. Am., i., 60; Hook. and Arn., 1. c., 322; Cheiranthus Men- 
stesit, Benth. and Hook., Gen. i., 68; Watson, |. c., 35; Phen- 
tcaulis chetranthoides, Nutt., in Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. Am. i., 89. 
To us who are well acquainted with this unique looking Cru- 
cifer, no other opinion commends itself but that of Nuttall who, 
if he had not perceived it to be of a new generic type, would 
have referred it to Pamya, rather than to Hesperis or Cheiran- 
thus. The flat ensiform pods are entirely foreign to both the 
genera last named, and the habit is in equally strong contrast 
with that of either. The deep, thick perennial roots are crowned 
by a distinct, often branching and partly subterranean caudex; 
and the flowering branches, whether called scapes or stems, are 
in reality only axillary, bracted peduncles. These are usually 
numerous, and always decumbent around the central tuft of — 
leaves which terminates each branch of the caudex. Beyond | 
this nothing is to be added to Nuttall’s full and excellent descrip- _ 
tion in Torrey and Gray, but his specific name must give place — 
