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C. ineonspicuus Greene Pitt. iii. 134.. Erysimum. parviflorum Nuit. 
(1838), not Pers. (1807). Cinereous and scabrous with appressed forked 
hairs: stems erect, 0-18 inches high: leaves narrow, oblong-linear or lan- 
ceolate, mostly entire, the radical crowded, sometimes repand-dentate : 
sepals linear-oblong, acute, 3 lines long, little surpassed by the narrow sul- 
phur-yellow petals: pedicels 2-3 lines long, spreading in fruit: pods slen- 
der, suberect, 1-2 inches long, searcely narrowed above, tipped with a short 
stout style and 2-lobed stigma. Eastern Washington to Alaska, Wyoming 
and Minnesota. hiny 
C. elatus Greene. c. 135. Erysimum elatum Nutt. Scabrous,and usu- 
ally canescent with appressed 2-parted hairs: stems erect from a biennial 
or short-lived perennial root, 1-6 feet high, usually simple, angled; leaves 
lanceolate to entire or repand-dentate, or the lowest pinnatifid: petals 
yellow or orange, 6-8 lines long, with broadly obovate suborbicular, blade 
the very slender claw, much exceeding the oblong or linear sepals: pods 
2-5 inches long by a line wide usually sharply angled, erect or spreading 
on spreading pedicels 2-6 lines long; style 1-2 lines long; stigma some- 
what 2-lobed: seeds oblong, brown, often sharply wing-appendaged at the 
apex. Comm»n on dry hillsides, California to Brit. Columbia. 
_  * * * Flowers large or middle-sized, pods more strongly flatten- 
ed, 1-nerved or somewhat keeled. 
C. occidentalis Watson Proc. Amer. Acad. xxiii, 261. Erysimum oc- 
cidentale, Rob. Stems erect, simple or branching from near the base, 2-18 
inches high, from an annual or biennial root, becoming stout, angular, 
finely pubescent with appressed forked hairs: narrowly linear to lance-lin- 
- ear, leaves attenuate to long slender petioles entire or nearly so: racemes 
at first short, but becoming 4-8 inches long in fruit: pedicels stout, spread- 
ing 2-4 lines long: petals light yellow, 8-10 lines long, much exceeding the 
pale narrowly-oblong strongly saccate calyx : pods 3-4 inches long, 1% lines 
broad, rather abruptly beaked; style slender, 2 lines long; stigma small: 
seeds oblong, rather broadly winged: cotyledons accumbent. On sandy or 
gravelly banks, Klickitat-county, Washington to Nevada. 
C. arenicola Greene I. c.131. Erysimum arenicola Watson Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxvi, 142. Cespitose perennial: stems several from the densely mul- 
ticipital caudex, terete, 6-8 inches high: leaves very numerous, chiefly 
clustered at the base, oblanceolate, repandly denticulate, including the 
petiole 144 inches long, 2-3 lines broad, pubescent with white appressed 
2-3 pointed hairs: racemes short, rather few-flowered: pedicels spreading, 
a line long: sepals 4 lines long; petals unknown: pods very gradually nar- 
rowed toa point: cotyledons oblique-incumbent. Olympic Mountains 
Washington, 5000 feet altitude. C. V. Piper. 
C. eapitatus Dougl.in Hook. Fl.1, 38. Cheiranthus asper Cham. & 
Schlecht. in Linneai, 14. Finely pubescent with appressed 2-parted or on the 
lowest leaves somewhat stellate hairs: stem 38-24 inches high from a per- 
ennial root, somewhat angular, stout, simple or less frequently branched, 
sometimes from the base: leaves oblong to spatulate or. linear, attenuate 
below, entire or more or less deeply repand-dentate: flowers light yellow, 
in a many-flowered at first subcapitate but elongating raceme: petals 8-12 
lines long, with broad rounded blade and slender claw: pods 1-4 inches © 
long, 1-146 lines broad; valves flattish, l-nerved: style stout, 4-1 line 
long: stigma broad: seeds oblong, brown, margined. Common on the 
coast from Curry county, Oregon to California. 
3 NASTURTIUM R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, iv, 109. 
Perennial herbs with lyrately compound or simple and _pin- 
natifid or undivided leaves and white flowers. Sepals erect. Pet- 
als unguiculate. Pods short, turgid, little compressed, nerveless. 
