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164 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN i 
Manual Rocky Mountain Region, 25. 1885. 
V. stenophylla Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. (Pl. Lindh.) 6: 
149. 1850; Walp. Ann. 2: 39. 1851; Gray, Smithson. Contr. 
(Pl. Wright.) 3: 10. 1852; Walp. Ann. 4: 196. 1857; Porter 
& Coulter, Syn. Fl. Colo. 6. 1874. 
V. stenophylla Gray, vars. 8. procera, y. siliculis ovatis, 3. hu- 
milis and s. diffusa Gray, Smithson. Contr. (Pl. Wright.) 5: 
18. 1853. 
Alyssum Fendleri Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 931. 1891. 
Lesquerella foliacea Greene, Pittonia 5: 134. 1903. 
L. stenophylla Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 33: 142. 1906; 
Rydb. Fl. Colo. 155. 1906; Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mountains, 333. 
1917. 
L. praecor Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 
126. 1913; Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 19: 
276. 1915. 
Perennial, caudex usually branched; plant silvery stellate 
throughout with closely overlapping stellae, rays numerous, 
simple, confluent from one-third to two-thirds their lengths; 
stems simple or branching, tufted, mostly erect, .5-3 dm. long, 
leafy; terminal bud developing a fertile stem; radical and cau- 
line leaves similar, linear to linear-oblanceolate, entire or variously 
toothed, 1-4 em. long, narrowed to a slender base; petals yellow, 
often nearly 1 cm. long, broadly spatulate; filaments filiform; 
fruiting inflorescence elongated or short and crowded, sometimes 
scarcely exceeding the leaves; pedicels erect or strongly ascend- 
ing, .5-2 em. long; pods erect, sessile, glabrous, globose or elon- 
gated, 3-7 mm. in diameter; styles 2-6 mm. long, slender; stig- 
mas capitate; septum thin, nerved, areolae not tortuous; ovules 
8-16 in each cell, funieuli long and slender, attached to the sep- 
tum for one-half their lengths or more; seeds not margined. 
Distribution: southwestern Kansas, western Texas, south- 
eastern Colorado, New Mexico, southeastern Utah, western 
Arizona, and north central Mexico. 
Specimens examined: 
Kansas: without definite locality, 1876, Popenoe (U. S. Nat. 
Herb.). 
Texas: Spafford Junction, March 22, 1900, Canby 18 (U. S. 
Nat. Herb.); near Cormidos, Nov., 1881, Havard (U. S. Nat 
