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from two to six on each stem ; the smooth pods are exactly spherical, about 2 lines in 

 diameter, and on pedicels only one fourth of an inch long. 



41. Draba cuneifolja, Nult.! in Ton: $• Gray, Fl. \.p. 108. Bed of Santa Fe 

 Creek, in moist and gravelly soil ; April and May.* 



42. D. micrantha, Nutt. I. c. Sunny side of ravines on the Rio del Norte. In 

 fruit; May. 



- 43. D. aurea, Vahl Fl. Dan. t. 1460; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2934. Shady declivi- 

 ties, along Santa Fe Creek, at the foot of mountains, &c. ; May to July. — Exactly the 

 plant figured by Hooker, from seeds gathered by Drummond in the Rocky Mountains ; 

 but it is apparently a perennial. 



44. Tiilvspi cocHLEARiroRME, DC. Syst. 2. p. 331 ; Deless. Ic. Select. 2. t. 32. 

 Santa Fe Creek, in the mountains ; March to June. 



45. Lepidium ruderale, Linn. Eastern Mountain range, near Santa Fe. 



'46. L. alyssoides (sp. nov.): annuum, glabrum ; caulibus diffusis corymboso-race- 

 mosis ; foliis anguste linearibus mucronulatis basi attenuatis integerrimis, infimis nunc 

 pinnato-3 - 5-lobatis ; racemis densis corymbosis ; petalis orbiculato-spathulatis calyce 

 triplo longioribus ; staminibus 6 ; siliculis ovatis apteris vix emarginatis glabris ; stylo 

 brevissimo. — Mountain valleys, from Santa Fe eastward to Rabbit's Ear Creek ; Aug. 

 Also recently collected (in the Rocky Mouutains ?) by Col. Fremont. — Plant 6 to 1 1 

 inches high ; the corymbose branches minutely puberulent, terminated by dense racemes 

 of conspicuous pure white flowers as large as those of L. montanum, and somewhat 

 resembling Iberis odorata. Leaves H to 2 inches long, about a line wide, the lowest 

 cauline on the larger specimens two lines wide, and often bearing two or four lateral 

 lobes, otherwise entire. Radical leaves wanting. Silicles a line in length, smaller than 

 those of L. integrifolium and more rhombic-ovate : style thrice the length of the minute 

 emargination. 



CAPPARIDACEiE. 



47. Cristatella Jamesii, Torr. fr Gray, Fl. 1. p. 124; Gray, Gen. III. t. 77. 

 Deep, sandy soil, Cimarron River ; Aug. 



48. Polanisia trachysperma, Ton: #• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 669 ; Gray, Gen. III. t. 79. 

 Rather low places, from the Cimarron River to the Rio Colorado. I have elsewhere 

 remarked, that " the verrucose-roughened surface of the seeds, from which the name was 



* The plant named Draba lutea /3. longipes by Hooker in Geyer's collection, having minutely hispid sili- 

 cles, would appear to be a form of D. nemoralis. 



