Dmha. CIUC'IFKILE. I(l7 



-I- -I- Leaves cDarsoly few-tnotliod or entire : peilicels more rcniotely raceiiHiHo. 

 ++ Flowers small, wliite : .stiji^iiia sessile or nearly ho. 



D. CUneifolia, Nutt. Loosely stellate-])ul)escent, usnaliy l.ramliin;,' from the liime ; Imim-lieM 

 K aly hilow and obovatc to oldauceolate, acute or atntisii, A to 2 inelies Ion;; : nuenie immIuh- 

 ciilate, at length elongated : flowers small : pcjds linear-oiiloiig, usually aeutish, :{ to « lineH 

 long, lG-50-seeded, hispid with sliort sul)-appressed simjde hairs (very nirely jjlalirous). <.m 



spreading or divarieate pedicels 1 to 3 lines long; stigma sessile or nearly s<>. Nutt. in 



Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 108; lirew. & Wats. IJot. Calif, i. 2H. I>. jiliniiilis, Sclie«-le, Linnaa, 

 xxi. 583. — Illinois (?) ; Kentucky, Short, to Alaltaina; Arkan.sius uiid Te.\as, and west to 

 S. ("alifdrnia; S. I'tali, /^in//, and Jordan Valley, W'alsm. 



Var. platycarpa, Watson, l. c. I'ods oblong-oval, mostly obtuse, 2J to 4 liue.s long, 

 etiualling or exiceding the pedicels. — D. pluti/carjiu, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 1U8. Jj. Ituiiuri- 

 unit, Schcele, 1. c. — Te.xas to Arizona. 



Var. integrifolia, Watson, 1. c. Small (1 or 2 inelK-s high): leaves small, nu.stlv 

 entire: pods glabrous, ou pedicels about a line long. — Coast ranges of S. California; 

 Temescal Mouutains, Brewer ; Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., 0. D. Allen ; Santa Maria, Jitnil. 



D. Sonorae, Greene. Kacemes usually nearly sessile and flowers very small : j.ods limly 

 stillatf-pubesceut, 3 lines long, on jHiliccls 1 or 2 lines in length. — Hull. Calif. .Xcad. S.i. 

 ii. o'J; Wats. 1. c. — Santa Catalina Mountain.s, Arizona, Leminun; Chollas Vallcv, San 

 Diego Co.,1 Calif., Orcutt. (Mountains of Northwestern Sonora, PriiKjle.) The pubt-scence 

 of the pods is the most constant character distinguishing tiiis species from tlie last. 



D. brachycarpa, Nutt. 1. c. Simple or branched, 1 to 6 inciies liigh, somewhat ap|.rc.s.M-d 

 st(llate-]inlies(ent : leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, half inch long; the cauline ob|ong-lan»e.H 

 late or linear, obtuse or acute : peduncles short : flowers very small : jiods narrowlv oblong, 

 aeutish, glabrous, 1 or 2 lines long, 10-1 2-seeded, about e(|ualling the divaricate j»edicels; 

 stigma nearly sessile. — Virginia to Georgia and west to Missouri and Louisiana ; Ko.^elterg, 

 Oregon, Howell. 



-H- ++ Flowers yellow, large : style slender. 



D. Mogollonica, Gukenk. Stems siimple or loo.sely branching from ba.<e. about a foot 

 high, villous or loosely stellate-pubescent below: leaves mostly at the ba.«:e, oblanceolate, 

 stellate-pnbescent, 1 to 3 inches long: flowers large, in broad racemes which are elongjitcd 

 in fruit : sepals glabrous : pods linear or oblong, glabrous, 4 to 8 lines long, witli a sK-nder 

 style a line long, on usually divaricate ])edicels 3 to 9 lines in length. — Hot. Gaz. vi. 157. — 

 In the Mogollon and Santa Magdalena Mountains, Xew .Mexico, /intilii/, drifue. 



D. (0 asprella, Greene. Pubescent with spreading sim])lc or forked hairs: sca|)e-liko 

 jiednniles one to several : filaments dilated downward : pods olilong-elliptical, somewhat 

 turgid, hispid, on divaricate pedicels; style slender. — Bull. Torr. Club, x. 125 : Wats. j. c. 

 257. — Arizona. A doubtful species by rea.son of the turgid pods and dilated tilanicnts. 

 Mature fruit has not been seen. 



* * High mountain or northern species ; leaves entire or few-toothed : Howcrs small, vdlow. 

 becoming wiiitish : stigma sessile. 



D. nemorosa, L. Slender, loosely stellate-pubescent, branching and leafy below, a f<Mit 

 iiigli or less : leaves rarely rosulate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, an inch long or less, aeutish : 

 racemes nearly sessile : calyx .sonu'what villous : i>etals small : p<ids n:irrowly oblong, 

 minutely pubesceut or rarely glabrous, 3 or 4 lines long, on spreading or ilivaricate immIjccIs 

 to 12 lines long; .stigma nearly se.<sile. — Spec. ii. 643. // m nmnilis, Klirh. Hcitr. vii. I.'i4. 

 /). tulea, Gilib. ace. to DC. Syst. ii. 351, & D. gracilis, (Jrah:im, Kdinb. New I'liil. .F<.ur. IS28, 

 172, the form witli glabrous pods (var. leiocar/ia, Lindbl.). — From the Great Lakc.s (Ft. 

 Gratiot, Michigan, Pilrlni- ; Michipicotin, Lake Superior, ace. to .Macoun) across the plains 

 to the Kocky Mountains, N. Colonido, Central Iiiaho, the lower (^duinbia Valley, and nortli- 

 ward into Brit. America. (Ku., Siberia.) 



D. Stenoloba, Ledkh. Slender : stem erect or lax, a foot high or le.«.«, simple or bmncbing 

 below, villous toward the base : leaves thin, mostly subrosulate, oblong-<)l)ov:»te or oblanc«H»- 

 late, the one or two cauline ovate to obh)iig-lanceolate, aeutish, mostly entire, often glabroUM 



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