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pods 3 to 4 inches long and filiform, about % a line wide, seeds lin- 
ear. This magnificent plant is conspicuous for miles near Haw- 
thorne, Nevada, standing up like a sentinel on the plains. It differs 
from S. pznnatifida in the large leathery leaves which are generally 
very broad and entire, in the broad yellow sepals, very narrow and 
small glabrous petals, woolly filaments, and very long and narrow 
pods and linear seeds. 
This was first collected by me in 1882, near Hawthorne. 
Stanleya pinnatifida has greenish, linear, inconspicuous sepals, 
golden yellow petals, with a blade about 4 lines long and lance- 
olate but sometimes broadly linear and sometimes elliptical, the 
claw is subulate and quite broad at base and very woolly through- 
out, the stamens are woolly on the lower half and not much enlarged 
at base, anthers loosely coiled, the pods are shorter and about a line 
wide, seeds broader. It is a perennial from a woody root, and sel- 
dom is strictly erect. 
STANLEYA ALBESCENS. Biennial, erect, branching from the 
base, 1 to 3 feet high; leaves entire or lyrate - pinnatifid toward the 
base, lanceolate to ovate, upper ones hastate and with a minute pair 
of leaflets on the short petiole, often glaucous, thick and cabbage- 
like, lower ones 6 inches or less long by 2 inches or less wide, petiole 
1 inch long in all but the upper leaves; spike sessile, rather dense, 
sepals linear and slightly widened toward the top, white with a green 
tip and slightly tinged with green, ;4; inch long, glabrous; petals 
7's inch long, light yellow or at first almost pure white, blade broad- 
ly oval 4 inch long, slightly erose, obtuse and abruptly contracted 
into the claw which is very narrow at the top and only ¥% a line 
wide at base, claw clabrous except the top where it is scantily wool- 
ly; stamens 5 inch long exclusive of the tightly coiled anther, with 
a few woolly hairs toward the base, only very slightly enlarged at 
base; pods 2 inches long, a line wide; seeds narrowly oblong, ob- 
tuse; pedicel 34 inch long and stipe % inch long. This differs from 
S. pinnatifida in the very narrow white sepals, broad whitish almost 
glabrous petals, almost glabrous filaments and tightly coiled an- 
thers, and short pods, as well as being biennial. 
June 10, 1890, on the Moencoppa in dry mud from freshets, 
SALT LAKE City, April 9, 1891. 
