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CLEOME lutea. 



Golden Cleome. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Capparidace^e. 

 CLEOME. Botanical Register, vol. l6,/ol. 1312. 



C. lutea; glabra, foliis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongis lanceolatis utrinque 

 acutis integris, sepalis basi tantum connatis, petalis oblongo-ellipticis 

 subsessilibus, staminibns sequalibus, fructu lineari brevi stipite longiore. 



Cleome lutea. Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 1. 70. 6. 25. Torrey fy Gray, 1. 122. 



Cleome aurea. Torrey # Gray, I. c. 



Peritoma aurea. Nuttall in Journ. Acad. Phil. 7. 15. 



A rather pretty hardy annual from Fort Vancouver, on 

 the North-west Coast of America, whence the seeds were pro- 

 cured by the late Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq. It flowers 

 freely in July and August, and requires rather a strong soil 

 and dry situation. The plants are subject to damping off, 

 and will not seed in a confined situation. 



In Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America, Cleome 

 aurea is considered different from C. lutea, because it is larger 

 in all its parts, and the stamens are equal instead of being 

 four long with small anthers, and two short with long narrow 

 anthers. But I have ascertained, by the examination of 

 authentic specimens, that Sir William Hooker's artist has 

 entirely misrepresented the stamens of C. lutea, and that they 

 are in fact exactly like those of the plant before us. It is, 

 therefore, necessary to unite these two supposed species. 



It will now appear that this plant inhabits the North- 

 west Coast of America, from the plains of the Platte to Lewis 

 River, in inundated places, and on the Rocky and Oregon 

 Mountains. 



Fig. 1. shews the stamens, ovary, and disk. 2. is a trans- 

 verse section of the ovary. 



