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CRUCIFERAE 



Lake, Heller 6871 ; Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; Little Shasta, F. IF. Hooper. Coast Ranges : Eureka, 

 Tracy 3186; Ukiah, Purdy; Little Oak, Solano Co., Jcpson 13,392; Berkeley, Davy; Corral Hol- 

 low, Jcpson 9579; Mission Soledad. Jcp.tnn S430; San Luis 01)ispo, Palmer 27. S. Cal.: Saugus, 

 Davy ; Los Angeles; Santa Ana, Alice King ; Escondido, C. V. Meyer. 



Refs. — Capsella buksa-pastoris Moench, Medic. Pfl. Satt. 1:85 (1792); Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 223 (1901), ed. 2, 189 (1911), Man. 442 (1925). Thlaspi bursa-pa.<itoris L. Sp. PI. 

 2:647 (1753), type European. Bursa bursa-pasioris Britt. Mem. Torr. Club 5:172 (1894). 



2. C. prociimbens Fries. Nannie's Purse. (Fifr. 143.) Stems several from 

 the base, orort or ascending, 3 to 6 inches high; leaves with oblaneeolate or spatulate 



blades, or the lower or all witli more or less pin- 

 natifid blades ; flowers minute, ^2 liii6 long or 

 less; sepals ovate-elliptic, thin-margined, about 

 equaled by the petals; pods elliptic-oblong, en- 

 tire at the apex, 1 to lYo lines long; pedicels 

 filiform, in fruit 2 to 4 lines long and divari- 

 cately spreading. 



Alkaline soil, 5 to 4500 feet : Southern Cali- 

 fornia and north to Alameda, Tulare, and Inyo 

 Cos. Far north to British Columbia. Europe, 

 Asia. Feb.-]\rar. 



Locs. — San Felipe, e. San Diego Co., T. Brande- 

 gee; Grapevine Caiion, e. San Diego Co., T. Brandegee ; 

 San Bernardino Valley, Parish ; Antelope Valley, Dav- 

 idson; Santa Rosa Isl., T. Brandegee; Santa Cruz Isl., 

 T. Brandegee ; Oxnard, Davy; Pacific Grove, Heller 

 6700; Alameda, Greene; Byron, Contra Costa Co., Bio- 

 letti; Tulare Lake, T. Brandegee ; Del Sur, Kern Co., 

 Davidson; Mohave, Davidson; Little Lake, Inyo Co. 

 Warner Valley, Lake Co., s. Ore., Manning. 



Refs. — Capsella procumbens Fries, Novit. Fl. 

 Suec. Mant. 1:14 (1832); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 224 (1901), ed. 2, 190 (1911) ; Man. 442 (1925). Le- 

 pidium procumbens L. Sp. PI. 643 (1753), type loc. 

 "Monspelii". C. elliptica C. A. Mever; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 

 3:199 (1831) ; Gray, Sjti. Fl. V:U1 (1895). Hutehin- 

 sia procumbens Desv. Jour. Bot. 3:168 (1814); Britt. 

 & Br. 111. Fl. ed. 2, 2:158, fig. 2023 (1913). 



Fig. 143. Capsella procumbens 

 Fries, a, habit, X %; ft, fl., X 5; c, 

 pod, X 5; d, seed, X 10. 



31. CAMELINA Crantz 



Erect annual with sagittate-clasping leaves. Flowers small, light yellow in a 

 loose raceme. Pod obovate or pear-sliaped, beaked with the persistent style; valves 

 convex with flattened edges forming a narrow margin; seeds several in each cell; 

 cotyledons incumbent. — Species 5, Europe and Asia. (Greek camai, dwarf, and 

 linon, flax.) 



1. C. sativa Crantz. False Flax. Stem simple or branching above, 1 to 3 

 feet high, leaf j% nearly glabrous; leaf -blades oblong to lanceolate, entire or dentate; 

 pods 31/4 to 4 lines long, 2 to 2Vo lines broad. 



Old World weed of grain fields, occasional in California. 



Locs. — Yreka, Butler 622, 1054; Sisson, Blasdale; Truckee, Helen Gets 34; Glendale, Ethel 

 M. Eoclieell; Swartout Valley, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 3181. 



Refs. — Camelina sativa Crantz, Stirp. Austr. ed. 1, 1:14 (1762), type loc. Austria; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 224 (1901), ed. 2, 190 (1911), Man. 442 (1925). 



32. DRABA L. 



Low annual or perennial herbs with a pubescence of simple, forked or stellate 

 hairs. Flowers white or yellow, in racemes. Petals entire, notched or bifid. Style 



