36 CEUCIFER^E. Caulanthus. 



more or less attenuate to the base, 1 to 2 inches long, entire or usually sinuate- 

 toothed : sepals broad, 4 to 6 lines long, half the length of the bright yellow or 

 orange petals: anthers long, sagittate: pods 1| to 2 inches long. 1| lines wide, 

 somewhat carinate, spreading on rather stout pedicels : stigma 2-lobed : cotyledons 

 accumbent or slightly oblique. Linnsea, i. 14 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 32. C. cj>/- 

 tatus, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. i. 38. Erysimum grandiflorum, Nutt. 



On the sea-shore from Monterey to Meudocino Co., usually stunted and the base of the stems 

 crowded with the persistent petioles of old leaves. It seems ajso to extend to sandy hills a few 

 miles from the coast, where it is taller and more slender, having much the habit of Erysimum 

 asperum, with which immature specimens may be confounded. 



9. CAULANTHUS, Watson. 



Pod terete, elongated, sessile upon the receptacle ; valves 1 -nerved. Seeds in one 

 row, oblong, somewhat flattened, scarcely or not at all margined ; cotyledons more 

 or less incumbent. Sepals large, nearly equally saccate at base. Petals but little 

 longer, undulately crisped, the blade only a somewhat dilated rhomboidal extension 

 of the broad claw. Anthers linear, sagittate at base, curved: filaments included. 

 Stigma somewhat 2-lobed. Stout biennials ; with pinnatifid or toothed leaves, 

 and purple or greenish-white flowers. Bot. King Exp. 27. 



A genus peculiar to California and the interior basin. A fifth species, C. hastatus, Watson, 

 1. c., t. 23, is found in the mountains of Utah. 



1. C. procerus, Watson, 1. c. Glabrous or glaucous throughout : stems 4 to 7 feet 

 high, stout, branching : lower leaves petioled, coarsely laciniate-piimatind, 4 to 12 

 inches long ; the upper lanceolate, sessile, acuminate : flowers greenish white, 4 to 5 

 lines long, on ascending pedicels half as long : pod terete, very slender, 3 to 5 

 inches long, less than a line broad, pointed, erect or somewhat spreading : stigma 

 nearly entire. Streptanthus flavescens, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 186, in part. 

 S. procerus, Brewer, in same, vi. 519. 



Eich clay soils from Monte Diablo to Pacheco Pass ; locally known as " Wild Cabbage " and 

 sometimes used as a poor potherb. 



2. C. Coulteri, Watson, 1. c. Mostly hispid : stems rather slender, 1 to 2 feet 

 high, simple or branched : leaves mostly dentate, sessile, the radical broadly spatu- 

 late and sinuately toothed ; cauline oblong-lanceolate, clasping with a cordate base ; 

 the uppermost entire : sepals 3 to 4 lines long, broad, acute, hispid : pod straight, 

 terete, 3 to 4 inches long, nearly 1| lines broad, pendent upon the hispid pedicel, 

 beaked by the stout style : stigma 2-lobed. Streptanthus heterophyllus, Gray, 1. c., 

 in part, not of Nuttall. 



Southern California (Coulter) ; Fort Tejon, Xantus. 



3. C. pilosus, Watson, 1. c. Somewhat pilosely hispid, at least at base : stout, 

 erect, branching, 3 to 4 feet high : leaves petioled, ly rate-pin natitid ; lobes sparingly 

 angular- toothed : flowers spreading, in a loose raceme, greenish white, the oblong 

 petals narrowed above, 4 lines long ; calyx slightly hairy : pod slender, 3 to 5 inches 

 long : stigma slightly 2-lobed, nearly sessile. 



Truckee and Humboldt Valleys, W. Nevada (Watson), and probably occurring in the low 

 valleys of Northeastern California. 



4. C. crassicaulis, Watson, 1. c. Glabrous, glaucous : stem hollow, inflated, 

 erect, 2 to 3 feet high, rarely branched : leaves mostly radical, petioled, runcinate or 

 runcinate-pinnatifid : flowers 6 lines long, dark purple ; calyx very woolly : pod 

 terete, 3 to 5 inches long, 1 J lines broad, ascending on very short pedicels : stigma 

 2-lobed, sessile. Streptanthus crassicaulis, Torrey, Stansb. Rep. 384, t. 1. 



From the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada to Utah, on dry foot-hills ; also known as " Wild 

 Cabbage " and at times used for food. 



