Z OE. 



A BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 



Vol. 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 1. c. ); raceme long and crowded with flowers, which are greenish 

 yellow, with linear sepals and petals, anthers very long and linear, 

 pedicels }4 inch long, stipe an inch ("^^ inch," Watson 1. 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 ^ 

 inch wide, thick, leathery, and light green, smelling like cabbage, 



