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BRASSICACEAE. 



Pods terete or 4-angled, sessile or 

 short stipitate. 

 Pubescence simple or none. 

 Pods spreading. 



Seeds globose or oblong. 

 Seeds in 2 rows. 



1. STANLEYA Nutt. 



Mostly tall erect branching glabrous and glaucous 

 perennial herbs, with entire toothed or pinnately divided 

 leaves and large yellow bractless flowers in elongated 

 terminal racemes. Sepals linear, narrow. Petals nar- 

 row, long-clawed. Stamens 6, nearly equal; anthers 

 twisted. Ovary short, stipitate; style short or none. 

 Siliques linear, long-stipitate, spreading or recurving, 

 somewhat comprCvSsed, dehiscent; the valves strongly 

 1-nerved. Seeds in 1 row in each cell. Cotyledons 

 straight. 



1. S. pinnata (Pursh) Britton. Stems stout, 15-25 dm. high; 

 lower leaves pinnatifid or pinnately divided or rarely entire, 12-20 



