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BRAY A. 



T. lasiophyllum Greene Bull. Torr. club xiii, 142. Sisymbrium re- 

 flexum Nutt. Proc. Acad. Philad. Hi, 26. Erect annual, hispid below, often 

 smoothish above : leaves oblanceolate or oblong in outline irregularly sin- 

 uate-toothed or pinnatifid with spreading acute or obtuse entire or toothed 

 segments l%-6 inches long, petioled, or the upper sessile by a narrow 

 base : flowers small, roseate or yellowish white ; sepals oblong, little more 

 than half as long as the spatulate-oblong petals : fruiting pedicels %-!% 

 lines long, curved : pods usually deflexed, slender, slightly curved, atten- 

 uate at apex ; stigma entire. Sandy and rocky soil, eastern Washington to 

 California and Utah. 



23 STANLEYA Nutt. Gen. ii, 21. 



Stout biennial or perennial herbs with entire or few-toothed 

 leaves and white to yellow flowers in elongated many-flowered 

 racemes. Calyx long, cylindrical or clavate in bud, at length 

 spreading. Petals long and narrow, slender-clawed ; stamens 6, 

 free. Anthers linear, not sagittate, spreading. Stigma sessile 

 entire. Pods terete, or subterete, borne on a slender stipe ; 

 valves slender, 1 -nerved. Seeds oblong, in 1 row. Cotyledons 

 incumbent. 



S. yiridiflora Nutt . T. & G. Fl. i, 98. Glabrous : stems stout, mostly 

 simple erect or somewhat decumbent, 1-4 feet high, angulate : leaves 

 thickish, the lower Ones ovate to oblanceolate sometimes, a little angled or 

 runcinately 1-2-toothed or even pinnatifid at the base, attenuate below 

 into long flat winged and often somewhat toothed petioles ; middle cauline 

 lanceolate-hastate, acute, entire gradually reduced upwards : racemes long, 

 usually simple ; pedicels stoutish 3-4 lines long, spreading : buds becoming 

 7 lines long and scattered before opening by the rapid growth of the axis 

 flow r ers greenish, pods very narrow, 3-4 inches long, on stipes 6-10 lines 

 long. Oregon and Nevada to Wyoming and Montana. 



S. confertiflora. $, viridijiora var. confertiflora, Robinson in Gray 

 Syn. FL i, 178. Glabrous : stems usually simple, terete 1-3 feet high : 

 leaves obovate or lanceolate, usually entire, upper ones clasping and pag- 

 ittate : racemes densely many-flowered, buds 4-5 lines long densely 

 packed together until they open : sepals and petals linear, white : pods nar- 

 row, 8-12 lines long, stipes more than half as long as the pods, on slender 

 divaricate pedicels 6-3 lines long. On alkaline plains at the base of Stein's 

 Mountain, southeastern Oregon. 



Tribe V. Cameliness Pods short, scarcely longer than broad, 

 or obcompressed orbicular^obovate to elliptical or linear-oblong. 

 Cotyledons accumbent. 



24 BRAYA Sternb. & Hoppe Regensb. Denkschr. i, pt. 1, 65. 



Perennial herbs from a usually thickish single root having a 

 multicipital caudex, chiefly tufted, entire or merely dentate 

 leaves and white or purplish flowers in a globular head. Sepals 

 short, rounded at apex, equal at base. Petals exserted, entire, 

 short-clawed. Stamens (5, free and unappendaged. Anthers 

 short-ovate. Style short, persistent. Stigma more or less dis- 

 tinctly 2-lobed. Pods oblong to linear-oblong, with flattish or 

 convex faintly 1-rierved not keeled valves. Cotyledons incum- 

 bent. 



B. humilis Robinson in Gray Syn. Fl. i, 141. Sisymbrium humile, C. A. 

 Meyer in Ledeb. FL Alt. Hi, 137. Pubescent throughout with branched 



