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CARDAMINE. 
long petiolulate; cauliné leaves 1-4, mostly 3-5-lobed or-parted, with oblong- 
lanceolate acute, mostly entire divisions: racemes densely many-flowered: 
petals rose-purple, half inch long: fruit not known. Under smull oaks along 
the creek, Silverton, Oregon. 
D. gemmuta. Cardamine Gemmata Greene Pitt. i, 162. Stems rather 
stout, 3-8 inches high from a round or oblong tuber 4-10 lines in diameter: 
radical leaves ternate, the leaflets broad and somewhat quadrate, coarsely 
toothed ; cauline leaves 1-3, pinnately divided into 5-7. linear-oblong mucron- 
ate, entire or toothed segments: racemes short, several-flowered; petals pur- 
ple, 5-8 lines long, In wet places, eastern base of the Coast Mountains 
near Waldo Oregon, floweringin very early spring; often in January to 
March. 
D. Californica Nutt. T. &G. Fl.i 88. Cardamine paucisecta Benth. 
Pl. Hartw. 297. Smooth or slightly pubescent: stems stoutish, 6-18 
inches high from small deep-seated tubers, simple or branched; lower leaves 
simple or trifoliolate, the leaflets pitiolulate, suborbicular, cuneate to sub- 
cordate at base, sinuate or coarsely toothed; cauline leaves 2-4, mostly 
short-petioled, pinnately 3—5-foliolate, rarely simple or lobed; leaflets mostly 
petiolulate, ovate to lanceolate or linear, entire or toothed, 1-3 inches long, 
flowers white or rose-color: pods 1-24 inches long: seeds oblong; cotyledons 
thick, the radical decidedly oblique, cleft to the middle. Along streams, 
southwestern Oregon to southern California. 
10 CARDAMINE Tourn. Inst. 224, t. 109, L. Gen. n. 812. 
Annual or perennial herbs of moist or wet places with simple 
or pinnate leaves and mostly small flowers in elongated ra- 
cemes. Sepals equal at base erect or more or less spreading. 
Petals obovate to narrowly spatulate. Pods linear, with some- 
what thickenod margins merely beaked or pointed above. 
Valves flat, nerveless, opening elastically from the base. Seeds in — 
1 row, wingless. Cotyledons accumbent or ‘slightly overlap- 
ping the radical, more or less petiolate, 
C. bellidifolia L. Sp. ii. 654. Glabrous perennial: caudex much 
branched, somewhat fleshy, stems very short, tufted: lower leaves ovate or 
elliptical, sometimes subcordate usually obtuse. obscurely 3-lobed, or ,arely 
with one or two lateral teeth, 1-6 lines long, on long slender petioles: ped- 
uncles 3-24 lineslong: flowers few, white or pinkish; sepals white, oblong, 
a line long; petals spatulate, narrowed below to a slender claw, very ob- 
tuse or truncate above twice as long as the sepals: pods erect, 6-15 lines 
long, on pedicels 2-3 lines long; style very short and stout, radical cleft to 
the middle. _On Mount Shasta and Lassen’s Peak California to Crater Lake 
Oregon and Alaska, 
C. Lyallii Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 466. Glabrous: rootstock 
creeping: stems erect, simple or branched 4-18 inches high: leaves 4-8, peti- 
oled undivided, reniform to cordate, the margin sinuate, 1-3 inches broad: 
the upper triangular, cordate, subacuminate : racemes pedunculate; flowers 
white, 3-4 lines long: pods erect’ on spreading pedicels 16-12 lines long, 
rather shortly attennate to a very short style: radical cleft to the middle. 
Along brooks in the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains. 
C. callosicrenata Piper Bot. Gaz. xxi, 488. ‘‘Perfectly glabrou 
throughout; stems erect, purplish below, shining above, coarsely striate, 
leaves all similar and pinnately trifoliolate, or some of the radical rarely sim- 
ple; terminal leaflet orbicular, 2-5 lines longand nearly as broad, closely 
crenate or the uppermost lobed, the ¢renations tipped with a short blunt cal- 
