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color, the sepals pubescent: pods short-pedicellate, spreading or some- 

 what ascending, glabrous, curved, 1 — 2 in. long, ^3 line wide, more or 

 less attenuate to a short style or sessile stigma: seeds in 1 row, orbicular, 

 narrowly winged. — A northern montane species, found on Lassen's Peak, 

 Leiinnoii, and in Plumas Co., iMrs. Austin. 



8. A. sircuatii. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 187 (1863); Nutt.; T. & G. 

 Fl. i. 77 (1838), under ,Streplaut]tus. Stems more or less tufted, simple, 

 1 — 2 ft. high, hirsute or more or less tomentose with branching hairs: 

 lower leaves numerous, oblauceolate, acute, entire or coarsely serrate- 

 toothed, the petioles slender; cauline linear-lanceolate, 1 — 2 in. long, 

 auricled or sagittate at the base: petals bright purple, J^ in. long or less, 

 the sepals half as long, often colored: pods rather scattered on the upijer 

 part of the stem, the short pedicels divaricate, the silique arcuate- 

 recurved, 3 — 4 in. long, barely a line wide; style 0: seeds narrowly or 

 not at all winged. — In dry soil on rocky hills near Fort Tejon and north- 

 ward, apparently in the Sierra chiefly. Mai'. — May. 



9. A, Holboellii, Hornem. Fl. Dan. xi. t. 1879 (1825): A, relrofmcta, 

 Grah. Edinb. Phil. Jouru. 344 (1829). Turritis padda, Grab. 1. c. Stems 

 itsually solitary, seldom 2 or 3, rather slender, ^^ — 2 ft. high, simple or 

 with a few erect branches, more or less stellate-pubescent, with or without 

 hirsute hairs below, sometimes glabrous, the upper part of the plant 

 usually so, and glaucous: lower leaves spatulate, entire or toothed; 

 cauline broadly oblanceplate, sagittate and clasping at base, J^ — 1 in. 

 long: petals twice the length of the sepals, white, rose-color or purple, 

 3 — 4 lines long: pods 1 — 4 in. long, 3^ — 1 line wide, glabrous, strongly 

 reflexed, acutish: seeds as in the last. — A Rocky Mountain species, 

 reaching our borders only on the eastward slope of the Sierra. 



10. A. Bolauderi, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 467 (1887). Biennial, 

 with erect or ascending branches from the base, 1 — 2 ft. high, more or 

 less stellate-pubescent throughout: lower leaves not known; cauline 

 lanceolate, entire, 1 — 2 in. long, auriculate at base: fl. rose-color: fruiting 

 pedicels slender, spreading, 1-2 lines long: pods glabrous, straight, 

 obtuse, with a broad sessile stigma, 1 — 1)^ in. long, the valves 1-nerved 

 to the middle:' seeds narrowly winged. — In the Sierra, at Yosemite or 

 Mono Pass, collected only by Bolander, and in the State Survey confused 

 with n. 9, from which it is disting^^ished by its different habit and 

 biennial duration. 



* * * * Loir annual, irith aspect 0/ Cardamine. 



11. A. Ludoviciaiia, C. A. Mey. Ind. Sem. Petr. ix. 60 (1842). Carda- 

 mine Ludoriciana (Nutt.), Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 191 (1834); Nutt. MSS. 

 under Sisi/mhrimn. Nearly glabrous, branched from the base and the 

 branches ascending, 6 10 in. long: leaves all pinnately parted into 



