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202 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Distribution: northern Wyoming and southern Montana. 
Specimens examined: 
Montana: Red Lodge, July 26, 1893, Rose 42 (U. S. Nat. 
Herb.). 
Wyoming: Dome Lake Grade, July 18, 1896, Nelson 2424 
(Rky. Mt. Herb., TYPE); stony foothills west of Hurlbut Creek, 
June 15, 1909, Willits 94 (Rky. Mt. Herb.); dry slope, hills 
southeast of Sheridan, June 15, 1913, Sharp 339 (Rky. Mt. 
Herb.); Buffalo, July, 1900, Tweedy 3688 (Rky. Mt. Herb.); 
from seed grown at Laramie, 1899, Nelson & Nelson (Rky. Mt. 
Herb. and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
L. curvipes is closely related to L. montana and may be dis- 
tinguished from it by the pods which are strongly compressed 
at the apex. It is isolated geographically from montana since 
their ranges are not known to approach one another closely. 
35. L. globosa (Desv.) Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 252. 1888; 
Wats. in Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 1':118. 1895; Britton & Brown, 
Ill. Fl. 2: 136. 1897, and ed. 2, 2: 154. 1913; Robinson & 
Fernald in Gray, Manual, ed. 7, 424. 1908; Small, Fl. South- 
eastern U. S. 470. 1903, and ed. 2, 470. 1913. 
Vesicaria globosa Desv. Jour. Bot. 3: 184. 1814; Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. 3: 638. 1843. 
V. Shortii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 102. 1838, supple- 
ment, 668. 1840; Walp. Rep. 1: 141. 1842; Dietr. Syn. Pl. 
3:639. 1843; Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. (Pl. Lindh.) 6: 148. 
1850. 
Alyssum Shortii Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 931. 1891. 
Biennial or perennial, canescent throughout with a rather 
loose stellate pubescence; stellae few- to many-rayed, rays forked; 
caudex somewhat woody, more or less elongated, unbranched; 
stems many, frequently branched, rather slender, 2.5-5 dm. 
long; terminal bud developing into a fertile stem; radical leaves 
2.5-5 cm. long, oblong, entire or repand-toothed, blade gradu- 
ally narrowed to the short petiole, strongly veined beneath; 
cauline leaves nearly linear to lanceolate, entire or repand, 1-4 
cm. long, narrowed to a slender base; petals yellow, spatulate, 
4-5 mm. long; filaments linear, slightly enlarged at the base; 
fruiting inflorescence elongated; pedicels slender, nearly straight, 
