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Hesperis pygmaeus Hook. F1. Bor.-Am. 1: 60. 1830. 
Erysimum pygmaeum J. Gay, Erysim. Nov. 4. 1842. 
’ Cheirinia brachycarpa sp. nov. 
Biennial; stem 3-6 dm. high, from a taproot, grayish canescent, 
somewhat striate; leaves all linear-spatulate or oblanceolate, 5-10 
cm. long, sparingly canescent; the lower petioled and often mi- 
nutely denticulate, the upper ones mostly entire; sepals oblong, 
about I cm. long, yellowish green; petals nearly 2 cm. long; claw 
long and slender; blades rounded-obovate, about 7 mm. wide, 
bright yellow; fruiting pedicels about 8 mm. long, strongly ascend- 
io pods erect, 4-6 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick; beak about 1 mm. 
ong. 
This species resembles C. oblanceolata, but the pod is much 
thicker and shorter and the flowers larger. It differs from C. 
aspera in its ascending, not divergent, and shorter pod. It grows 
on dry hillsides at an altitude of 2,500-3,000 m. 
Urau: Abajo Mountains, August 17-20, 1911, Rydberg & 
Garrett 9713 (type, in herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden, flowers and young 
fruit) ; 9765 (well-developed fruit); Cottonwood Canyon, June 27 
and July 1, 1905, Rydberg & Carlton 6333 and 6570. 
’ Sophia leptostylis sp. nov. 
Annual; stem 3-6 dm. high, rather simple below, sparingly 
Stellate-pubescent or glabrous; leaves 3-10 cm. long, obovate in 
outline, twice pinnatifid, with oblong divisions, sparingly stellate- 
pubescent; the uppermost reduced and with narrower lobes; 
flowers numerous; sepals elliptic, yellow, I-1.5 mm. long; petals 
Sie gaan a little surpassing the sepals; pedicels in fruit 5-8 mm. 
ng, spreading-ascending; pods about 5 mm. long, tapering to 
each end, near y erect, somewhat curved; styles 0.5-0.7 mm. long; 
seeds more or less in two rows. 
This resembles somewhat .S. procera, especially in the form of 
the pods, but the inflorescence is more open and the pedicels more 
“preading. It grows at an altitude of 2,000-3,000 m. 
Utan: Big Cottonwood Canyon, July 4, 1905, Rydberg © Carl- 
‘on 6629 (type, in herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden); also June 29, 6498, 
oe duly 8, 6806; Big Cottonwood Canyon, June 1905, Garrett 
1301; near Milford, June 22, 1905, Rydberg & Carlton 6283; moun- 
'ains north of Bullion Creek, near Marysvale, July 23, Rydberg & 
