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or white, spatulate, about twice as long as the sepals; filaments 

 linear, anthers 1-2 mm. long, sagittate, not apiculate: inflores- 

 cence lax, at first corymbose, at maturity racemose; pedicels 

 slender, divergent-ascending, 5-8 mm. long: pods conspicuously 

 reticulate, irregularly torulose, shortly stipitate or subsessile, 

 15-22 mm. long; style slender, about 1 mm. long, stigma small, 

 nearly circular: seeds not winged. 



Distribution: eastern Oregon to northwestern Nevada. Type: 

 Anderson from near Carson City, Nevada. 



Specimens examined: 



Oregon: alkaline plains, Malheur Butte, May 12, 1896, Lei- 

 berg 2039 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; alkaline meadows, Powder 

 River, May 23, 181)8, Cusick 1884 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; south 

 of Big Springs, July 5, 189 1, Leiberg 896 (Rky. Mt. Herb, and 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Nevada: Minden, June 10, 1920, Bethel (Rky. Mt. Herb.); 



west of Antelope Valley, May 11, 1859, H. Engelmann 77 (Mo. 



Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Empire City, June 19, 1882, Jones 3771 (Clo- 

 key Herb.). 



10. T. laciniatum (Hook.) Endl. in Walp. Rep. 1: 172. 1812; 

 Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 2G. 1871; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 377. 

 1873; Torr. Bot. 'Wilkes' Exp. 17: 231. 1874; Brewer & Wats. 

 Geol. Survey Calif. Bot. 1: 37. 1870; Robinson in Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. N. Am. V: 177. 1897), in part; Howell, El. Northwest Am. 

 58. 1897, in part; Piper <Sz Beattie, Fl. Palouse Region, 82. 

 1901, in part; Piper, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 299. 1906, 

 in part; Frye & Rigg, Northwest Fl. 180. 1912; Piper & Beattie, 

 Fl. Southeastern Washington and Adj. Idaho, 117. 1914; Piper 

 & Beattie, Fl. Northwest Coast, 173. 1915. 



Macro podium laciniatum Hook. Bot. Misc. 1: 341, t. 68. 1830; 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 43. 1840; Dietr. Syn. PI. 3: 695. 1843. 



Pachypodium laciniatum Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 

 1: 90. 1838. 



P. ciliatum Dietr. Syn. PL 3: 702. 1843. 



Thelypodium ncglectum Jones, Am. Nat. 17: 875. 1882, in 

 part. 



T. h/itosepalum Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 34: 133. 1907; 

 Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mountains, 307. 191 



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Biennial, glabrous throughout, more or less glaucous: stems 

 usually stout, in the larger plants hollow, irregularly branching 

 upwards, 3-24 dm. high: radical leaves petioled, thick, deltoid- 



