Stanfonlki. CULCIFEIM:. 171 



pedicellate: calyx Imiail and saccate ; tlie sci.al.s obtuse : ])uds ascend iiif,', 1 to ;> inches long 

 by I line broad, on pedicels G to 12 lines lonj;; stif^nia entire, sessile; seeds broaillv ellip- 

 tical, narrowly winged. — EuU. Torr. Cluli, xiii. 141. — At Point Tiburou, Marin Co., 

 California, Greene. 



= = More or less pubescent, rarely glabrous throughout (in some forms of S. ijlundulusiis). 

 S. hispidus, Gkay. Dwarf, hispid throughout : leaves cuneate-obovate to oblong, coarselv 

 toothed, mostly sessile and but slightly auriculate : racemes short, sessile : tl(jwers purple or 

 purplish, 4 lines long, spreading : sejials acutisli : jkxIs erect or ascending on short pedicels, 

 hispid, li to 2 inches long by a line wide, with a short stout style and broad stigma ; seetls 

 liroadly elliptical, winged. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 18G.' — Near summit of Mt. Diablo, 

 Breicer, 1084, 1096, Bolandcr, 6267. 



S. glandulosus, Hook, a foot or two high: lower leaves oblanceolate, coarsely toothed ; 

 till" ujijier lanceolate to linear, toothed or entire, more or less hispid below, usually glabrous 

 above: the teeth callous-tipped: flowers deep purple to white, 5 to 6 lines long: the calv.v 

 broad and saccate ; the lower sepal carinate and usually sjjreading : pods curved and more 

 or less spreading ou short pedicels, glabrous or sometimes hispid, 2 to 4 inches long i)v a 

 line wide; stigma broad and nearly sessile ; seeds elliptical, narrowly winged. — Ic. t. 40. 

 S. peramcenus, (ireeue, Bull. Torr. Club, xiii. 142. S. albidus, Greene, Pittonia, i. 62 (white- 

 tlowered form).^ — Central California, from Clear Lake to San Luis Obi.spo; freipa-nt. 

 Specimens c(dlected by T. Howell at Waldo in S. Oregon seem to belong here. 



S.* seciindus, Greene. Slender, branched, 1 to 2 feet high, hispidulous: long lower 

 leaves pinuately toothed or lobed ; cauliue lanceolate, sagittate: racemes rather den.se, 

 secund : flowers flesh-color, 4 lines long : sepals sharply carinate, hispid-ciliolate ou the keel ; 

 the remote lower one distinctly, the uppermost obscurely unguiculate : petals with ample 

 ])urple-veined crisped liml) : upper pair of filaments connate to near their scarcely divergent 

 tips, the anthers small but polliniferous : slender pods 2 inches long, falcate-recurved: seeds 

 wingless. — Fl. Francis. 261, & Man. Bay-Reg. 17. — Northern base of Mt. Tamalpais, Calif., 

 (xreene. Description condensed from the original characterization. 



-1— -1— Sepals very unequal ; the outer pair much dilated : pods reflexed. 



S. polygaloides, Gray. Slender, simple or branched, 1 to 3 feet high, glaltrous : leaves 

 lihform, entire, some somewhat clasping and sagittate: flowers very shortly pedicellate, 

 yellowish, 3 lines long : calyx very broad ; the outer pair of sepals suborbicular, unc(iual ; 

 tlie inner lanceolate, acuminate : pods 1 to U inches long by one half line wide, at length 



reflexed, attenuate to a short style; seeds oblong, winged (?). — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 519. 



California, near Jacksonville on the Tuolumne, Breicer, 1615, and on Mt. Bullion, Bulandcr. 



46. STANF6RDIA, Watson. (Dedicated to Senator Leiand Sfanford, 

 1824-1893, patron of the ' Botany of California,' and founder of the Leluiid 

 Stanford, Jr. University.) — A rare and interesting Californian monotype, well 

 cliaracterized by its obcompressed fruit and 3-parted cotyledons. — I>ot. Calif, ii. 

 470; Prantl in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 2()(;. [By B. L. 



lioUINSON.] 



1 S. pidchellus k S. Biolettii, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 225, ajipear to be forni.s of this specie.s. 



2 The recently published S.MILDRED.E, Greene, Fl. Francis. 200, of Ocntr. Calif., dillVrs chiefly as 

 to described character in its smaller very dark-colored flowers. S. versicolor, Greene, Erytliea, iii. 99, 

 appears to be only a form of S. glandulosus. 



Several of the cliaracters employed in the distinction of recent species appear unf rustwortliy. Tiius 

 the height to which the upper filaments are connate, as well as tlie degree of divergence of the fre.^ 

 portions, varies mucli in different flowers of the same plant. The depth of color of the calyx and 

 corolla is certainly to be distrusted as a specific character, and the wing of the seeds is most variable. 

 In one of the type specimens of S. rjlandulosus, for instance, the seeds of the same yoA e.\ldbit sonie- 

 tinies a short broad wing at the end, sometimes a narrow wing around much of the circuiufercnce. 

 By laying undue weight upon these characters the number of species could be almost indefinitely 

 multiplied. 



