CATALOGUE. 
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Washoe, Trinity, and Toyabc Mountains, Nevada, often growing with the 
last; 4,500-6,000 feet altitude ; April-July. (77.) 
Streptanthus^ cordatus, Nutt. Glabrous; lower leaves spatulate-ovate 
or oblong, repandly denticulate, (chielly at the apex ;) cauline ones cordnle, 
clasping, all obtuse; flowers on short pedicels; petals wlthoul a dilaied 
lamina, scarcely exceeding the sepals ; sili<pu's erect or spi-cadiiiii-, com- 
pressed, broadly linear; seeds Hat, margined. — A glaucous percmiial, .J-2° 
high; leaves thick, very obtuse or even truncate, with usually a i'rw tccili iil 
the summit; jx'ials rarely half longer than the calyx, greenisli yellow, (u- 
oflcii deep ])urple ; pods o-4' long, 1 wide. Xultall di'sciibcs tlie 
sili([ii('s as dellcxed. They ai'c iiutst usually ascciidiiii:-. tlioiiuli specimcus 
show them in some measure retlected. It lias 1)e(;n collected by Newhcrrv 
oil the J.ower Colorado : hy l*ariy. in the Middle Pai'k; and ])\ UrewcM-, at 
Carson's Pass, in the Sierras. f'onnd in the Ivist Hiimlxddt Mountains, 
Nevada, and not rare in tlie Lintas, on rocky rido-es, at an elev;ilion of 
7-9,000 feet; July-August. (78.) 
Cardamine cordifolia, Gray. 7V. Fendl., p. S. Stem erect, siiiij)l<^, 
from a fil)rous creei)inir root, glal)rous, or pilose at base, lea ty ; leaves peti- 
oled, cordate, s])aringly repaiid-deutate or angular-toothed, ciliate, the lower 
orbicular or reniform, the ui)per triangular-cordate, snhiicnniinatc ; flowers 
rather large, white; siliques suberect, 2-0 times longer than the spreading 
pedicels. — Stem 1-3° high ; leaves 1-4' in diameter. Discovered by Fendler 
in the Santa Fe Mountains, New Mexico, and c(dlected since in Colorado, 
and by I.yall on the northwestern boumlary. Found in the Clovei- AFountains, 
1 S'J'lvi:i*J"A\l'Hrs. .\ri 1. ('liai;i(tci> ncirly ;»> in Arahin ; the calyx Imi^"'. witli lnoail .iinl cul- 
nivil M |i,il> ; aiitliiTs t loiiHiitt il anil >a^'ittatc, with llit- jnii-^cr filainrnts snnictiiiK s ailualr ; )M ial> w illi 
lont; clianiiili-d sonicwhat twisted liaw^. with in witiiout a dilated lanniia : >ilii|ne e<niiiii e->rd, a\ ii li 
1 - nel \ I'd \ al \ eN, and flat t ened seechs in nne series ; -I i i;i 1 1 ,1 ~i iii|ile. 
I'he limits of this <^einis liave nut heen in laei sliii tly draw n, s.-veial of the ivco^ni/. d >|M eii-> 
de\ iat in;; in a iiei|>lexinji inannei- from t lie tyjiieal foims in their m<He m- le>s terete pods ami scarcelv 
thittL'iied imniarginale sn iU. ]( is tonml, Intwever. on in vesti;;at ion, liiat in all of these easi s the eot\l- 
(Mlons an', to 8oni(! later or le-.> ixtent, in<nnihenf, showing: tiiat tlieir trne plaee is rather with 77i./(/- 
jmdhim. W Strrptajillms. tln ieton . he rcstricttnl to sm h specie^ oidy :i> ha\e emnpre'-sed )ioi!s, the valves 
soinctinu's sli^^htly carinate. hnt the sef(l« always ihiilened. ein nlai- or ellipt ii al. more or less mar^iined. 
and with the eotyh dons trnly aeenndient, the exelmled species will he N. r/vrs.s/ivoi/fv, 'I'orr., >. ^uor, /// ^. 
Urewer. N. Ciiiilliri. (iray. loiiiii/uliim, ]'>enth., ■•ou/iHidii.i. Nntt., and N. fl<tn sr, us, 'I'orr. fnof of Hook.) 
Of the>i- ill.' three latter are rei.i\ed withont dilticnlty into Tlidi/p^itltiuii. to whirh hnhntlh n.^ )>'ni»(iiitiditx 
nniy al-.. ■ ^ • ed. ha \ in u llie l.a-e of the radiih- decidedly ohliiine. ■file remaiiidei-, \\\\\\ two other 
>I" ' uionp -o wi II .ii-.tin,-ni>hed l.y tlieir idon;;ated terete ]>od-. ol.li.n;;- >ce(ls. nnil >trep- 
' - «ith elaminate petals, that it sc. nis advisahic tti fmin of them a uew gi ; - 
('(iuhuilli)i^. ji. 1 
