68 CON-TRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS 



common 



be 



cm 



uve si/:e oi r. aid>'mocarpa for t'lis reason. 



Arabis juniperina n. sp. Allied to A. Parishii. Seeds in 2 rows, 

 broadly wmged. Pods smooth, ascending, a little arched, 3 mm. ^v^de 

 and 1.5-2 inches long, triangular-acute, with stigmas almost sessile, 

 nerved at least to the middle, and nerve raised below. Pedicels .5-1.5 

 '^ long, stout, and hairy. Perennials from a woody crown which Is 

 -.-.erea with very many, thick spatulate-oblanceolate and slender-petioled 



Tu /""''T. ^^''^ .^^""^ ^^ ^^"-^ ^^^^' w^ich are densely covered with 

 felted, white, much branched hairs which are almost stellate. Pubes- 

 cence on the stems gradually thinner toward the tip, but scattered on 

 tne pedicels, the leaves not auricled, linear and sessile, gradually reduced: 

 above. Stems several, branched below, often a foot long, erit. manv 

 flowered racrmosely. Flowers purple, about 5 mm. long. This low' 

 altUide plan grows among the junipers at Cactus Flat along with 

 Arab:, arcuata and nalboellii on mesa, and blooms in spring. St has 

 s con rlnf V P^i^y'P'"^^^ ^^^ <l«^s not grow in that life zone, and 



D^W ?^ ^ti'"'''\.r ^'''"' ^^^' '' ^^^''^ Cushenbury Spring. ' 

 do no; 'n? ^nf thsu. Wooten & Standley. The authors of \his name 



anpHed o^L'" '■' '^'L^' ^^^^^^'^^'^ ^^^ the same character thev' 

 acter> n J \'^'''';- ^^'K^'^ ^°^ ^^^" ^^^^^ the really good char- 

 IhZiVpVlr ^"' "''^''^ "'"^^ "" ^^P Califomica^nd Wis- 



One wo-!ld\.Hf "'■' ^ ^''^'"^ '"^ ^'^^'^"^^y ^' Clarkia rhomboidea. 



such bSe L?^''' ^'T" ^ ""l^ "^"'^^ ^"t^^i^^l experience to make 



thb .n d n? tho^r \r^^^^^^^ °*^^ ^^^^'-^^'^^^^ ^^-^ not taken up •■ 

 mis sKci's of theirr,. ]^Iay be this is the rea-on. ■ ■■ ' 



cT,. 11-''' Sraminea (Greene). Draba graminea Greene Perhans I 

 SSc^n^ ^?i;fT ^° ^^^^^^'^^ -n^ «:anTha.^^^1^- 

 ^5;:S:l^^t^7^ISofB't: ^"^f '^ ^; ^^^ Pomona' college ^ 

 Mesa, near GunnisL So.Tdo ?fe 'la^t ' "' ''.' ^'?? "^ *^ ''""^'• 

 Draba, and grows "a hi^h ele^^alS in T ^'i'-'''^^ ""-^''y^ ""^ ""' ^ 

 caespitose habit, and ver^ low . ^' '^^^^^ ''^'""' ^^'^ ^vith the . 



related and Sn^^ the sL^f"' ^'^''T'^^ ^^d Paeonia are clo.sely ' 

 sosoma in the ^ni^n^^^^^^^^^^^ ^-^- put Cr.s- . 



for CrojsosGma, but leaves PironT. ; !v. ^ ^^""'^^ Crossosomataceae 

 the two genera better hvDuttfn??!, " ^e Ranunculaceae. -Gray treats . 

 though in the v;mnt f^i?^"'^ yi^?\;« ^ ^"^family; Paeoniae^: which '^ 

 general ■ similarity in the wo Jn ^'"5 -treatment by far. There is a 

 allies the two genera to the rfn % '^'^ is. ..unmistakable; and which: 

 where Fn^er pSts So^^so 'L^Se"'''"^ ''"'''■ ^^^^^ '^ ^^^ ^— « • 



of 



jpeaks 



Bro;vnii. The disk is fi-^t .^^ iv^'^ !' n°t true at least in Paeonia 

 . . . , ^ic, IS fl.t and .thin, ar4 en the cuter edge- is the to^V 



