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BOTANY. 
Var. HYPECOIDES, Gray. Stems low and slender, 2-10' high, flowers vory 
small, 2--o" in length. California and Western Arizona. Found on the tlry 
foot-hills of the Virginia and Trinity Mountains, Western Nevada ; 4,500 feet 
altitude ; May. (51.) 
CoEYDALis AUEEA, Willd. Var. occiDENTALis, Eng. Numerous speci- 
mens show the spur rather longer than usual in eastern plants, but the seeds are 
scarcely more acutely margined. The pods are either erect or reflexed, straight 
or curved, stout or slender, smooth or puberulent upon the sutures. Mis- 
souri to Texas, and westward. Found in the Wahsatch Mountains and on 
the rocky ridges bordering upon Salt Lake ; 4,300-6,000 feet ahitude ; 
May-July. (52. 
Var. xMiCRANTiiA, Eng. Flowers small, nearly spurless, on short pedicels. 
Hitherto reported only from Western Illinois and Missouri. Bear Eiver 
Canon, in the Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 9,000 feet altitude ; August. (53.) 
CRUCIFER.E. 
Parrya' maceocarpa, Br. Glandular-pubescent ; scape naked, 6' high ; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, long-petioled, sinuately or incisely dentate ; petals 
purple, broadly ovate, retuse; sihques broadly Hnear, (lJ-2' long and 3" wide,) 
erect, somewhat constricted between the seeds; seeds in a single row, with 
broad membranous wings.— Agreeing with the figure and description (in 
Hooker's Flora Bor,-Amer.) of the Arctic plant, which has been hitherto found 
only on the Arctic coast, from the mouth of the Mackenzie to ]3ehring Strait, 
Near the summit of one of the highest peaks of the Uintas, above Bear River 
Canon, at an aUitude of 12,000 feet. In flower and fruit ; August. (54.) 
Cheiranthus^ Menziesii, Benth. & Hook. {Hesperis, Hook. Phoenicau- 
lis cheiranthoides, Nutt.) Rootstock thick and woody ; scapes (6-12' high) 
nearly glabrous, with several sessile clasping leaves ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
entire, attenuate at l)asc into a long petiole, densely stellate-tomentose ; flowers 
in a simple raceme, purple ; sepals colored, short, obtuse, much shorter than the 
petals ; sili.pios (!->' long and 2" broad) spreading, flat, ensiform, acute, the 
valves opening ela stically from the ol^tusc base.— Collected by Nuttall on the 
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