261 262 



glaucous, stout, 2-4 ft. high, branch- Grande, near El Paso; fls and fr in Ag. 



ing: leaves "rather thick, acute, often An interesting and .quite anomalous 



irregularly toothed, the teeth at first & &SF%J& J S& 3 ft's 



setosely tipped and the leaf sparingly stipules and bracts. Tuberculated 



setose-ciliate near the base; cauline valves of the cap separating from the 



leaves .anceolate or oblanceolate: fls fMg?' (S&lfTSS "!SfcSSSS 



nore or less dark purple, 4 or 5 lines forming a complete, dissepiment, which, 



long, the sepals often hairy at the tip: l"^ 6 P erf ectly ripe and dry state! 



filaments distinct: pods spreading and r 



curved, 3-6 in. long by about a line 1848. 



broad, beaked with a stout style and x M ^ ave and Colorad o deserts; Sonora; 



shortly lobed stigma: seeds winged." " The Gal plants hitherto referred to 



S. Watson, Am ac pr 24:125. Campo, this are considered by Greene as dis- 



a i tinct species. 



THYSANOCARPUS PUSILLUS Hooker. RESADACEAE. 



See Athysanus pusillus Greene. Ann or per herbs with alt Ivs erland- 



THYSANOCABPUS CONCHULIPEBUS. like stipules and racemose or ' spicate 



"Glabrous and glaucous, 3-10 i hi, bracted unsymmetrical fls: Cx 4-7 part 



rather stout and branching: uppermost e j, more O r less irr: Pet 2-6 usually 



'oreS^'lin^r-S^d'N^ ^^^ ^^f &*? 



and divaricated all ex- d ~" lu - " orn e Oil the base Of 



- .t 



cemes short and dense: pet spatulate- d^sk, declined or unilateral: Ova 1, corn- 

 oblong, nearly 1% li long, light p: sa- P. O8 d ot 3 ~ 6 carpels, at least the tips 

 mara 1 V 2 li long, cymbiform, the some- distinct; ovules many: Fr capsular: 

 what conduplicate margin parted into scls renirorm; endosperm 0; cotyledons 

 spatulate lobes, or these coherent above, incumbent. 

 leaving narrowly oblong perforations: Pet 4; diskpresent .............. Reseda 



stg V2 li long beyond the margin of the Pet 2; disk ............... Oligomeris 



fr: pedicels % i long, firm but re- 



Zoe 1:132. 



Variety PLANIUSCULUS Robinson. 



"Fr plano-convex or slightly concavo- VIOLACEAE. 



convex, not perceptibly reticulated but Violet family. Ours herbs with alt 



hirsute upon both sides: pedicels 4-6 li or basal simple entire or lobed Ivs, and 



long Island of Santa Cruz with type, axillary or scapose usually solitary per- 



^ ^- Brandegee. April, 1888. Robin- fect ir fls .^ sep 5? unequ al: pet 5, hypo. 



rk-p : PA ) -RT-nAr-pAl? gyinous, imbricated in the bud, the 



CAPfAHlUAU^A^. lower one spurred; perfect sta 5, hy- 



Herbs or rarely shrubs or trees with pogynous; anth erect, connivent in a 



pungent or acrid watery juice, sample r i ng - sessile or on short fil : Ova 1, 1- 



or p.almately compound alt Ivs and ax- celled, with 3 parietal placentae: sty 



illary or terminal, solitary or racemose, s i mp i e: capsu ie dehiscent by valves: 



mostly regular and perfect fls: Sep 4: sds anatropous with a crustaceous 



pet 4, sessile or clawed: sta usually 6, tes ta; embryo straight; endosperm cop- 



equal, inserted on the receptacle; anth ious 



oblone:. longitudinally dehiscent: Ovary *-,.* . * 



sessile or stipitate, 1-celled; ovules Genus \IOLA Linnaeus. 



many, borne on parietal placentae: Fr Violet; characters of the family. The 



a capsule or berry: Sds mostly reni- later fls often produced on runners or 



form: endosperm 0; cotyledons some- on short peduncles, and are apetalous 



what coiled. or cleistogamous and abundantly fer- 



Genu* WISLIZEMA Engelmanii. tile, while the early showy ones are 



"Characters nearly as in Cleomella, St 



but the pod didymous: valves contract- v A V A v ^ - ""r^ f)'n uirta* 



d upon the solitary sds and decid with yjoSLl CANINA^!, 



o^^'a^the^sljar^^y^longated^^nwSS MosUy 'lowland rather sm-lvd, spring 



erect branching 'ann with y racemous flg an * \at er cleistogamous: cor bl or 



fls and 1-3 foliolate Ivs." Brewer and ^ 1O (rarely a w, variety; : pet 



^Vit^on Rot Tal 1-5" spicuously lineate: spur cylmdraceous, 



Edward Lee Greene, in a "Revision of from a third to more than half the 



the Genus Wislizenia" (Proceedings of length of pet: cap ovoid-oblong. Eu; 



the Biological society of Washington. Asia; ..-^ ^^v-x-- v /- A Q.Q'?'? 



7-132 6 S 1906), recognizes ten Variety ADLNCA Gray, Am ac pr 8:377 



species, some without reticulation in (1873). 



the valves, and one perennial. Nearly glabrous, multicipital and 



WISLIZEXIA REFRACTA Engelmann. mostly very short-stemmed from more 



"On the upper crossing of the Rio indurated rt-stocks: Ivs from ovate-or- 



