Stanfordia. CRUCIFER^. 171 



pedicellate : calyx broad and saccate ; the se^Dals obtuse : pods ascending, 1 to 2 inches long 

 by 1 line broad, on pedicels 6 to 12 lines long; stigma entire, sessile; seeds broadly ellip- 

 tical, narrowly winged. — Bull. Torr. Club, xiii. 141. — At Point Tiburon, Marin Co., 

 California, Greene. 

 = = More or less pubescent, rarely glabrous throughout (in some forms of S. gland ulostis). 



S. hispidus, Gray. Dwarf, hispid throughout : leaves cuneate-obovate to oblong, coarsely 

 toothed, mostly sessile and but slightly auriculate : racemes short, sessile : flowers purple or 

 purplish, 4 lines long, spreading : sepals acutish : pods erect or ascending on short pedicels, 

 hispid, 1|- to 2 inches long by a line wide, with a short stout style and broad stigma ; seeds 

 broadly elliptical, winged. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 186.^ — Near summit of Mt. Diablo, 

 Brewer, 1084, 1096, Bolander, 6267. 



S. glandulosus, Hook. A foot or two high : lower leaves oblanceolate, coarsely toothed ; 

 the upper lanceolate to linear, toothed or entire, more or less hispid below, usually glabrous 

 above : the teeth callous-tipped : flowers deep purple to white, 5 to 6 lines long : the calyx 

 broad and saccate ; the lower sepal carinate and usually spreading : pods curved and more 

 or less spreading on short pedicels, glabrous or sometimes hispid, 2 to 4 inches long by a 

 line wide ; stigma broad and nearly sessile ; seeds elliptical, narrowly winged. — Ic. t. 40. 

 S. peramainus, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, xiii. 142. S. albidus, Greene, Pittonia, i. 62 (white- 

 flowered form) .2 — Central California, from Clear Lake to San Luis Obispo; frequent. 

 Specimens collected by T. Howell at Waldo in S. Oregon seem to belong here. 



S.* seciindus, Greene. Slender, branched, 1 to 2 feet high, hispidulous : long lower 

 leaves piunately toothed or lobed ; cauline lanceolate, sagittate : racemes rather dense, 

 secund : flowers flesh-color, 4 lines long : sepals sharply carinate, hispid-ciliolate on the keel ; 

 the remote lower one distinctly, the uppermost obscurely unguiculate : petals with ample 

 purple-veined crisped limb : upper pair of filaments connate to near their scarcely divergent 

 tips, the anthers small but polliniferous : slender pods 2 inches long, falcate-recurved: seeds 

 wingless. — Fl. Francis. 261, & Man. Bay-Reg. 17. — Northern base of Mt. Tamalpais, Calif., 

 Greene. Description condensed from the original characterization. 



-I— H— Sepals very unequal ; the outer pair much dilated : pods reflexed. 



S. polygaloides, Gray. Slender, simple or branched, 1 to 3 feet high, glabrous : leaves 

 filiform, entire, some somewhat clasping and sagittate : flowers very shortly pedicellate, 

 yellowish, 3 lines long : calyx very broad ; the outer pair of sepals suborbicular, unequal ; 

 tlie inner lanceolate, acuminate : pods I to 1^ inches long by one half line wide, at length 

 reflexed, attenuate to a short style; seeds oblong, winged (?). — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 519. — 

 California, near Jacksonville on the Tuolumne, Brewer, 1615, and on Mt. Bullion, Bolander. 



46. STANFORDIA, Watson. (Dedicated to Senator Leland Stanford, 

 1824-1893, patron of the ' Botany of California,' and founder of the Leland 

 Stanford, Jr. University.) — A rare and interesting Californian monotype, well 

 characterized by its obcompressed fruit and 3-parted cotyledons. — Bot. Calif, ii. 

 479; Prantl in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 206. [By B. L. 

 Robinson.] 



1 S. jmlchellus & S. BiohUii, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 225, appear to be forms of this species. 



2 The recently publislied S. Mildreds, Greene, Fl. Francis. 260, of Centr. Calif., differs chiefly as 

 to described clittracter in its smaller very dark-colored flowers. S. versicolor, Greene, Erythea, iii. 99, 

 appears to be only a form of S. glandulosus. 



Several of the characters employed in the distinction of recent species appear untrustworthy. Thus 

 the height to which the upper filaments are connate, as well as the degree of divergence of the free 

 portions, varies much in different flowers of the same plant. The deptli of color of the cah'x and 

 corolla is certainly to be distrusted as a specific character, and the wing of the seeds is most variable. 

 In one of the type specimens of S. glandulosus, for instance, the seeds of the same pod exhibit some- 

 times a short broad wing at the end, sometimes a narrow wing around much of the circumference. 

 By laying undue weight upon these characters the number of species could be almost indefinitely 

 multiplied. 



