172 CRUCIFERiE. Stanfordia. 



S. Calif ornica, Watson, 1. c. Annual, branching, glabrous: radical leaves oiuanceolate in 

 outline, piunatifid, 2 to 4 inches in length, narrowed to winged petioles ; lobes subequal, entire, 

 opposite ; cauline leaves ovate, cordate, sessile, amplexicaul, shallowly few-toothed : racemes 

 elongated, loosely flowered ; pedicels 2 to 4 Hues loug, hispid-pubescent : flowers rather 

 large, often pendulous : calyx ovoid or campanulate, 4 lines in length ; sepals purple-tipped, 

 paler or white toward the broad membranous bases : petals purplish, little exserted ; the 

 claw broad, almost ovate; the blade smaU, crisped: capsules suberect, 12 to 16 lines in 

 length, H to 2 lines broad, becoming chartaceous in texture, tipped with slender styles 1 to 



2 lines long. — Strept<inthus Californicus, Greene, Fl. Francis. 256. — California, near Tulare, 

 Mrs. Bush ; at Deer Creek, Tulare Co., Congdon ; Bakerstield, Kern Co., Greene; fl. Marcli, 

 AprU. 



47. CAULANTHUS, Watson. Wild Cabbage. (KauXos, cabbage, and 

 avBos, flower, in reference to the popular name and the occasional use of certain 

 species as a substitute for the garden vegetable.) — Coarse and more or less 

 succulent herbs of the Far West, chiefly biennials and perennials, nearly related 

 upon the one hand to Thelypodium and on the other to Streptanthns, to which 

 several species were formerly referred. — Bot. King Exp. 19, 27, & Proc. Am. • 

 Acad. xvii. 364; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 36; Wats. Bibl. Index, 55; 

 Prantl, 1. c. 156. [By B. L. Robinson.] 



* Cauline leaves developed, sessile, cordate or auriculate-claspiug at the base, usually oblong 

 and little divided. 



+- Stem glabrous or nearly so : pods ascending or widely spreading. 

 C. amplexicaulis, Watson. Glaucous annual, more slender and fiexuous than the other 



sjiecies, simple or more frequently with several spreading branches : leaves elliptic-oblong or 



ovate ; the lowest somewhat narrowed toward the base, shallowly sinuate-dentate, obtuse ; 



the upper broadly cordate-clasping, subentire, often acutish : racemes loosely few-flowered ; 



flowers ascending; pedicels 4 to 12 lines long, widely spreading. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 



364. — Mountains about San Bernardino, Calif., at 4,000 to 6,500 feet alt., Parish Bros., 



Wriijld ; fl. May and June. Whole plant tending to be purplish tinged. 



C. Lemmoni, Watson. Probably annual, becoming much branched, smooth or somewhat 

 hispid ])elow; hairs apparently always simple although sometimes clustered: leaves acute, 

 denticulate or entire, rather short, not usually exceeding an inch in length, oblong or more 

 commonly more or less deltoid, sagittate at the base, witli acutish auricles ; the lowest leaves 

 somewhat narrowed below : racemes more densely flowered : flowers much as in the pre- 

 ceding but pendulous during anthesis : pedicels 3 to 4 lines long, often liispid: capsules 

 strictly erect, stout, 3 to 4 inches long, 2 lines thick, tipped with stout spreading stigmas. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii. 261. Streptanthns Pmri/i, Greene, Fl. Francis, i. 257. — Near 

 Cholame, San Luis Obispo Co., Calif., J. G. Sj- S. A. Lemmon; fl. June. 



C. inflatus, Watson. Annual, essentially glabrous, occa.sionally a little hispid below : stem 

 erect, very stout, becoming strongly inflated and fistulous : leaves erect, oblong, obtu.se or 

 obtusish, entire or denticulate, auriculate with rounded basal lobes : racemes rather dense ; 

 pedicels short, often hispid : flowers .spreading or almost horizontal: sepals glabrous: pods 



3 or 4 inches long, 1^ lines thick, ascending Init not erect. — Wats. 1. c. xvii. 364. Streptan- 

 thns inflatus, Greene, Fl. Francis. 257. — Dry hills, Mohave Desert, Lemmon, Parish Bros., 

 Hasse; fl. March to May. 



-i— -i— Hirsute-pubescent : pods distinctly deflexed. 

 C. Coulteri, Watson. Lower leaves olilanceolate, dentate, 2 to 3 inches long ; the upper 

 lanceolate, acute, subentire : racemes rather loosely flowered : flowers horizontal or nearly 

 so : sepals narrow, recurved at the tip, strongly hirsute or quite smooth : pedicels 2 to 4 lines 

 long, becoming deflexed in fruit : cap.sules terete, 3 to 4 inches long. — Bot. King Exp. 27 ; 

 Bibl. Index, 55. Streptanthns heterophylius. Gray, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. 145, & Proc. 

 Am. Acad. vi. 185, in part. S. Coulteri, Gray in Wats. Bot. King Exp. 19. — S. California, 

 Th. Coulter; Ft. Tejon and vicinity, Xanthus. 



