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(Univ. Calif. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); moist, sub- 

 alkaline soil of Silver Creek, Aug. 8, 1901, Cusick 27S5 (Univ. 

 Calif. Herb., Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., and Rky. Mt. Herb.); dry 

 alkaline meadows, eastern Oregon, June, 1897, Cusick 1618 (Univ. 

 Calif. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



California: Big Valley, Modoc County, June 29, 1894, Baker 

 & Nutting (Univ. Calif. Herb.); adobe meadows, Dixey Valley, 

 Lassen County, July C, 1894, Baker & Nutting (Univ. Calif. 

 Herb.). 



mm 



Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30: 253. 1903: 



Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mountains, 3C7. 1917. 



T. Palmeri Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 34: 432. 1907; Rydb. 

 Fl. Rocky Mountains, 367. 1917. 



Biennial or short-lived perennial, glabrous or sparsely hirsute 

 below: stems several from the base, rather slender, decumbent, 

 simple or sparingly branched, 3-6 elm. high : radical leaves some- 

 what rosulate, outermost broadly oblanceolate, about 

 later ones 5-7 cm. long, narrowly oblanceolate or with a broadly 

 oval black 1 , abruptly narrowed to a slender petiole, petioles more 



about 2 cm. long: 



sepals oblong, about 4 mm. long; petals spatulate, about 7 mm 

 long: inflorescence narrow, racemose, elongated and rather lax 

 when mature; pedicels ascending, rather stout, 4-6 mm. long: 

 pods ascending or erect, somewhat torulose, subsessile, 1.5-3 cm. 

 long, 1 mm. wide; style 1-2 mm. long, stigma small, entire; sep- 

 tum similar to that of T. sagittatum. 



Distribution: southern Utah. Type: M. E. Jones 601 5e from 

 Panguitcli Lake. 



Specimens examined: 



Utah: Panguitch Lake, Sept. 7. 1894, Jones 6015e (U. S. Nat. 

 Herb., type) ; southern Utah, 1877, Palmer 2. 

 Herb.). 



Gard 



insufficientlv know 



of type material of T. ovalijolium and T, Palmeri that but 

 species is represented. In the former the pods are 1-2.5 

 and the basal leaves are nearly glabrous except for cili, 



the netioles: in the latter flip ruwlc am i r_q ,.,v, i™™ 



cm 



} petioles; in the latter the pods are 1.5-3 cm. long and the 

 basal leaves sparsely hirsute. Only two collections are known and 

 these evidently came from localities not far separated since the 

 type of T. Palmeri was from "southern Utah." The differences 

 are so slight and the habital resemblance is so great that these 



