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the loaHets mostly i)eti()liilate, ovate to laiueolate or linear, entire or toothed, 1 to .3 inches 

 long : tiowers while or rose-coloretl : pods I to -l}^ imhes lung (style 2 or 3 lines l<jng) ; seeds 

 oblong; cotyledons thick ; radicle decidedly oblique, cleft to the middle. — Xutt. in 'I'orr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 88. D. inteyri/ulia, Nutt. 1. c. Ccirdamiiie purjntiea, Torr. & (Jray, l-'l. i. 85. 

 C. puiicisecta, Benth. PI. Hartw. 297 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. .30.' C. cnntuta, Greene, 

 Bull. Calif. Acad. ISci. i. 74. — In the Coast Ranges from San Diego to Oregon; Chico' 

 Calif., Mrs. Bidwell; Vancouver Island, Mucoun. C. cuneata, Greene, from the San Antonio 

 Mountains, Monterey Co., Calif., appears to be only a slender form with more divided 

 (5-7-foliolate) leaves, the terminal leaflet 3-parted and the lateral with one or two lobes on 

 the petiolule. A specimen from Vacaville, Solano Co., Rattan, represents the opposite 

 extreme, having the leaves all simple and cordate. 



-1— -i- Cauline leaves undivided (sometimes 3-foliolate in D. puchijstiijmu). 



D.* cardiophylla, Kobinson, n. sp. Glabrous ; stem erect from a small tuber, usually 

 simple, 6 to 12 inches high: leaves 2 to 4, alternate or the pair nearly opposite, round-cor- 

 date to lanceolate, sinuate or acutely toothed, ^ to U inches long, exceeding the peticjles : 

 peduncle short: flowers rose-color: pods 1 to 1^ inches long and a line iiroad or somewhat 

 more, with a slender style {\l to 2 lines long) ; seeds ovate; radicle oblitiue, cleft nearly to 

 the base, as long as the subequal cotyledons. — D. Californica, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 

 289, & Bot. Calif, ii. 430, in part. — Plumas Co., Calif., Mrs. R. M. Austin, Lemmon. This 

 species, characterized and given an unpublished name by Dr. Watson, is with scarcelv a 

 doubt the Cardamine rardiophi/lla of Greene, Fl. Francis. 266, described from specimens 

 collected in Solano Co., Calif., Je/ison. Specimens from Rock Creek, Washington, (J. R. 

 Vuseij, appear to be the same. 



D. pachystigma, AVatson, n. sp. Glabrous: stem stout, 6 inches high: leaves 2 or 3, 

 approximate, simple and cordate to reniform, or sometimes 3-foliolate and the lower leaflets 

 ovate to lanceolate, somewhat crenate or sinuate or more frequently coarsely and acutely 

 dentate; raceme sessile or nearly so: pods 1 or 2 inches long, 1^ or 2 lines broad, with a 

 very short stout style and small stigma; seeds nearly orbicular; cotyledons very thick, 

 oblique; the short radicle cleft nearly to the base. — D. Californica, var. pachi/stiijma, Wats. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 289, & Bot. Calif, ii. 430. — Plumas Co., Calif., Mrs. Ames, Mrs. Austin. 



43. CARDAMINE,2 Tourn. {KapSafxivrj, a name cited by Dioscorides as 

 given to some sj^ecies of cress, probably Lepidium sativum.) — Mostly glabrous 

 plants, growing along watercourses or in moist places, for the most part with 

 smaller flowers, narrower pods, and smaller seeds than in Dentaria. Natives of 

 temperate, arctic, and alpine regions of the globe. — Inst. 224, t. 1 09 ; L. Gen. 

 no. 541 ; DC. Syst. ii. 245, & Prodr. i. 149 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 70, excl. 

 subgenera. [By S. Watson.] 



* Leaves undivided : perennials. 

 H— Alpine or arctic; dwarf. 

 C. bellidifolia, L. Rootstock .slender with a branching caudex; .stems very short : leaves 

 with a long slender petiole, ovate or elliptical, occasionally sul)cordate and usually obtuse, 

 rarely with one or two lateral teeth, 1 to 6 lines long : peduncles ^ to 2 inches long : flowers 

 few, white or pinkish : pods erect, 6 to 15 lines long, on pedicels 1 to 3 lines long, the style 

 very .short and stout; radicle cleft to the middle; caulicle thick. — Spec. ii. 654; Fl. Dan. 

 t. 20. C. alpina, Willd. Spec. iii. 481 ; Reichenh. Ic. Fl. Germ. ii. 10, t. 25. C. Lencnsis, 

 Andrz. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iii. 33 ; Ledeb. Ic. t. 268. — Mountains of Northern New England ; 

 Rocky Mountains of Brit. America,^ Drummond ; Mt. Shasta and Lassen's Peak, Calif.; 

 Alaska and Arctic Coast. (Greenland, Eu., N. Asia.) 

 1 Add sj-n. Cardamine Californica, Greene, Fl. Francis. 266. 



'^ The accent of this name, variously given in botanical works, should be determined liy the cpi.-in- 

 tity of the iota of the Greek, which according to excellent authority is short, contrary to the markiii;,' 

 in Harper's Latin Lexicon. 



3 Also reported from Avalanche Mountain in the Selkirk Range, by J. M. Macouu, Bot. Gaz. 

 xvi. 2S6; and coll. in Clii.iuash Mts., Washington, Sul^sdorf. 



