1921] 
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L. Kingi, because of its subglobose pods, will be confused 
with utahensis rather than the other members of this group. 
It is a less distinctly cespitose plant than utahensis, has as a rule 
fewer stems, and is less floriferous, the leaves are apparently 
always entire, and the petals exceed the sepals by not more 
than one-third their lengths. The pedicels are more distinctly 
sigmoid, the pods more densely pubescent than in utahensis 
and are never compressed at right angles to the septum. Kingii 
has not yet been collected in Utah, while utahensis has never 
been found outside that state. The habit sketch reproduced 
here was drawn from the type of Kingii, while the fragment of 
fruiting inflorescence is taken from Hitchcock’s No. 807. 
45. L. latifolia A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 42: 49. 1906. 
Perennial, appressed stellate-pubescent throughout, rays of 
the stellae numerous, distinct or irregularly coherent, usually 
forked near the base; stems erect or decumbent, 1-2 dm. long, 
unbranched, rather stout; terminal bud remaining undeveloped; 
radical leaves 2-8 cm. long, obtuse, 
blade suborbicular, ovate or oblong, 
entire or irregularly margined, nar- 
rowed abruptly to a slender petiole 
1.5-5 cm. long; cauline leaves broadly , 
oblanceolate to spatulate, obtuse, 1-2 
cm. long; flowers numerous, conspic- 
uous; petals yellow, narrowly spatu- 
late, 7-9 mm. long; filaments linear; 
fruiting inflorescence elongated; ped- 
icels conspicuously sigmoid, 5-7 mm. 
long, horizontal or even recurved; 
pods erect, stellate-pubescent, ob- 
long, 5-7 mm. long, somewhat flat- 
tened parallel to the partition, dis- 
tinctly stipitate, stipe black, about 5. bs a noue. E vC 
mm. long; styles 2-3 mm. long; 
septum nerved, entire, areolae not tortuous; ovules 6 in each 
cell, funieuli long and slender, attached to the septum for less 
than one-half their lengths; seeds not margined. 
Distribution: southern Nevada. 
