Vol. 8 
218 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Specimens examined: 
Nevada: mountain tops, Karshaw, Meadow Valley Wash, 
April 26, 1902, Goodding 625 (Rky. Mt. Herb., TYPE, and Mo. 
Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
This is certainly a most unusual plant and further collections 
will be awaited with interest. In general appearance it is not 
unlike L. Kingit except for the more floriferous racemes and 
more numerous stems. It is definitely separated from that 
species, however, by the lengthened pods and the more distinct 
stipe. The pods in the type specimen are scarcely mature but 
seem evidently flattened parallel to the septum. The type col- 
lection was distributed under the name of L. montana. 
46. L. Wardii Wats. in Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 1: 118. 1895; 
Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mountains, 332. 1917. 
L. ? Wardii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 255. 1888. 
Perennial, densely stellate-pubescent throughout, stellae small, 
many-rayed, rays forked near the base, distinct or irregularly co- 
herent; stems mostly pros- 
trate, 4-10 cm. long, stiff, 
unbranched; terminal bud 
remaining undeveloped; 
radical leaves 1-4 cm. long, 
blade ovate, suborbicular 
or rarely subhastate, usual- 
ly quite entire, narrowed 
abruptly to theslender peti- 
ole which equals or exceeds 
it in length; cauline leaves 
broadly oblanceolate to 
nearly linear, 8-18 mm. long; petals yellow, very narrowly spat- 
ulate, about 7 mm. long; filaments linear, slightly enlarged at 
the point of attachment; fruiting inflorescence rather short, 
crowded; pedicels straight and erect or ascending or, partic- 
ularly the lower ones, horizontal and more or less sigmoid, 
5-7 mm. long; pods erect or ascending, sessile or subsessile, 
ovoid or ellipsoid, usually acute at the apex, sometimes slightly 
flattened at right angles to the septum, rather densely stel- 
late-pubescent, 4-10 mm. long; styles 3-5 mm. long, usually 
Fig. 30. L. Wardii. Habit sketch x 14. 
Trichomes x 25. 
