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y. Sepals green or yellow, 



erect, 

 f Pods slender on slender 



pedicels 18a. C. lasiophyllus 



var. inalienus 



**Pods reflexed. 



ttPods stout on very 



stout pedicels 18b. C. lasiophyllus var. 



rigidus 



1. Lobes of the leaves usually acute; 



plants of the coastal region 18. C. lasiophyllus 



2. Lobes of the leaves usually rounded, 



Leaves thinner, more nearly glab- 

 rous; plants of the interior 18c. C. lasiophyllus var. 



utahensis 



1. C. amplexicaulis Wats . Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 364. 1882; Rob- 

 inson in Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. I 1 : 172. 1895. 

 Euclisia amplexicaulis Greene, Leal I. Bot. Obs. & Crit. 1: 84. 



1904. 



labrous throughout, more or less glaucous: stem 



der, somewhat decumbent at the base, simple or branched, flexu- 

 ous, 2-4 dm. long: stem-leaves from suborbicular to ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, 2-5 cm. long, deeply amplexicaul at the base, 

 basal lobes rounded, leaf margin entire or in the lower leaves 

 sinuate-dentate: sepals purplish, somewhat saccate above the 

 base, particularly the dorso-ventral pair, nearly equal in length, 

 about 7 mm. long; petals purplish, broadly linear, about 11 mm. 

 long, upper part strongly crisped ami becoming coiled ; filaments 



namous 



mm. lonir. anthers about 5 mm 



S. B. & W. F. Parish 



scarcely apiculate: inflorescence lax, racemose; pedicels ascend- 

 ing or divaricate, 12-20 mm. long: pods spreading, curved, terete, 

 slender, 6-8 cm. long; stipe stout, less than 1 mm. long; style 

 not over 1 mm. long, stigma small, entire; cells of septum rec- 

 tangular, short, not at all tortuous. 



Distribution : southern California. Type : 

 from the San Bernardino Mountains. 



Specimens examined: 



California: San Bernardino Mountains, W. G. Wright (Univ. 

 Calif. Herb.) ; San Bernardino Mountains, April, 1881, S. B. & W. 

 F. Parish 846 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; head of Waterman's Can- 

 „ __, , , Parish 2326 (Univ. Calif. Herb.) ; head of Wa- 

 terman's Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains, June, 1894, Parish 

 (Univ. Calif. Herb.); Grass Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, 

 June 28, 1894, Parish 8036 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Mill Creek, 

 at the falls, San Bernardino Mountains, May 30, 1898, Hall 918 

 (Univ. Calif. Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; Manzana, Ante- 

 lope Valley, May 9-24, 1S96, Davy 2568 (Univ. Calif. Herb.); 



