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Oregon, Thos. Howell, 30 May, 1885. A doubtful specimen with more slender and elongated 



pods but otherwise similar has been collected at Candelaria, Nevada, Shockley, September, 



1882. 



# * Middle cauliiie leaves distinctly petioled or sessile by a narrow base, not auriculate- 



clasping, often pinuatifid. 

 -t- White woolly-pubescent: cauline leaves slender-petioled, hastately lobed at the base, 

 otherwise entire or nearly so. 



S. tomentosa, Parky. Stout, simple, erect : root thick, brown, branched, perennial : 

 stem terete below, angled above : lower leaves lyrately pinnatifid ; terminal segment ovate- 

 lanceolate, 1 to 3 inches in length, about an inch broad; the lower segments ovate-oblong, 

 much smaller : racerne thick, 1 to 2 feet long, pedicels three fourths inch in length, clavate 

 at the summit : flowers cream-colored : stipe of the capsule nearly or quite as long as the 

 pedicels. — Am. Nat. viii. 212; Wats. Bibl. Index, 71. — Dry slopes, in gypsaceous soil. Owl 

 Creek, N. W. Wyoming, Parrij. 



-)— -)— Glabrous or glabrate. 



S. elata, M. E. Jones. Quite smooth, often glaucous, simple or branched ; stem tall, terete : 

 leaves coriaceous ; the lower narrowed toward the petiole, entire or somewhat toothed at 

 the base ; the middle and upper cauline ovate-lanceolate, entire, acute, abruptly contracted 

 to slender petioles of a third their length : inflorescence long-peduucled ; pedicels 3 lines in 

 length: sepals petaloid, bright yellow, with a well developed spatulate blade: petals of 

 about equal length but much narrower and less conspicuous : filaments woolly : mature fruit 

 not seen. — Zee, ii. 16; Coville, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 64. — Hawthorne, Nevada, 

 Jones ; Inyo Co., Calif., Coville & Fanston. 



S. albescens, M. E. Jones. Erect, branching : leaves thickish, very pale and glaucous, 

 oblanceolate or oblong in outline, lyrately pinnatifid or entire, distinctly petioled beneath 

 the narrowed often hastately auricled base : pedicels 4 to 6 lines long : sepals greenish white, 

 slightly enlarged above : petals 5 lines long, cream-colored, with a broad blade, smooth or 

 somewhat pubescent below: anthers tightly coiled: silique curved-ascending, I| to 2 inches 

 long; stipe 6 to 8 lines in length. — Zoe, ii. 17; Eastwood, ibid. ii. 227. — Dry soil. New 

 Mexico, Palmer ; Arizona, on the Moencoppa, Jones ; Moqui Village, Owens ; Colorado, 

 Grand Junction, Miss Eastwood, on the Gunnison River, Cowen. 



S. pinnatiflda, Nutt. Branching, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 1^ to 3 feet high: 

 stems terete or nearly so, flexuous, rather slender, leafy : leaves thickish, very variable, 

 commonly pinnatifid or pinnately divided ; segments lance-oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic, 

 rarely linear, mostly entire ; the terminal one somewhat larger ; petioles narrow : racemes 

 long ; pedicels 2 to 5 lines in length : sepals narrow, pale yellow or greenish : petals bright 

 yellow, spatulate, much exserted, usually rather narrow : anthers curved or loosely coiled : 

 capsule 1| to 2i inches long, a line in diameter, widely spreading, ascending or .somewhat 

 deflexed ; stipe 3 to 7 lines long. —Gen. ii. 71 ; DC. Syst. ii. 512 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 97; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 154, t. 65, & PL Fendl. 9 ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 24; Jones, 1. c. S. hete- 

 rophi/lla, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 97. 5. fruticosa, Nutt. Proc. Acad. Philad. iii. 23. 

 S. pinnata, Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. viii. 62. Cleome pinnata, Pursh, Fl. ii. 739. 

 Var. iNTEGRiFOLiA, Robiusou, n. var. Leaves entire, ovate or elliptic, attenuate to each 

 end {S. inte(/n folia, James, Cat. 185, & in Long Exp. ii. 17; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 166, 

 & in Sitgreaves, Rep. 156, t. 1, occurring in similar situations with the type and not distin- 

 guished except by its foliage). — W. Kansas and Nebraska to Texas and S. California, 

 northward to the Upper Missouri River. The commonest and most variable species, closely 

 simulating the Capparidacete in habit ; fl. May to August. 



50. "WAREA, Nutt. (Mr. Nathaniel A. Ware, 1789-1853, the discoverer, 

 who was a teacher in S. Caroliua and travelled somewhat widely in the Southern 

 States.) — A genus of two erect slender glabrous annuals, separated from 

 Stanleya chiefly by their white or roseate flowers and dense subcorymbose 

 inflorescence, which together with the well stalked pods recall certain Cappa- 

 ridacecB. — Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 83, t. 10; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 98; Gray, 

 Gen. 111. i. 10.5, t. 66 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. SO. [Ry B. L. Robinson.] 



