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CARDAMINE. 

 C. cuneata. 



Glabrous throughout; perennial from small tubers; ratlier 

 slender, erect, about a foot high, simple: radical leaves 3 — 4 

 inches long, two thirds as wide, 5 — 7-foliolate; leaflets ovate, 

 irregularly few-toothed or -lobed, a half inch or more long, 

 cuneate, tapering to slender petiolules of greater length, 

 some of these with a pair of secondary leaflets at base; cau- 

 line leaflets 5 — 9, linear-cuneiform, entire: petals white, 

 drying purplish: pods unknown. 



Collected only by the writer, March, 1884, in the interior 

 of Monterey County on mountain sides near Jolon. 



The species is nearest the common C. paucisecta, differing 

 from it mainly in the very peculiar, large, flaccid, pinnately- 

 or commonly somewhat bipinnately-parted radical leaves. 

 The habitat is dry ground, under oak trees, such as C. pau- 

 cisecta usually affects. G. Breweri, the other species, to 

 which it stands related, grows in water. 



SIDALCEA. 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



* Perennial. 



-s- Root not tuberous. 

 S, Candida, Gray. 



Stems 12 — 18 inches high, erect and simple, from a creep- 

 ing rhizome : glabrous except some sparse hirsute hairs be- 

 low and a minute ciliolation of the leaf-margins: lower leaves 

 orbicular, 7-lobed, sinus closed, lobes rounded, coarsely 

 3 — 5-crenate or -incised; the upper about 5 — 7-parted, seg- 

 ments lanceolate, entire : raceme short and dense, glandular- 

 tomentose: lobes of the calyx ovate, abruptly pointed: co- 

 rolla white : carpels smooth and glabrous. — PI. Fendl. 24. 

 Watson, Bot. King. V. 46. 



Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, at consid- 

 erable elevations, by streams and in springy places, but 



