2^2 CAPrAKlDACEJ^. CrLslutdla. 



i. 196. — Sauilbauks, &c., S. W. Arkansas and Ttxa^s first coU. by NuUall. (Here Drum- 

 niond's Texan plant, which vas referred to the next.) 

 C. Jamesii, Tokr. & Gray, L c 124. Flowers one half smaller : petals less unequal, larger, 

 ' barely a line and a half long : stamens 6 to 9, rarely declined, little longer than the petals : 

 capsiiles inch or less long, ^^^th stipe seldom much exceeding tlie gland. — Gray, Tl. Fendl. 

 10, & Gen. 111. i. 178. Cyrbasiuin Jamesii, Endl. in Walp. 1. c. — Sandbanks, S. Kansas 

 to W. Louisiana and Texas ; first coll. by James. 



3. POLANISIA, Kaf. (Contraction of ttoAv's, m-Awj, and avto-o?, unequal, 

 referring to the stamens.) — Mostly glandular and viscid heavy-scented annuals; 

 with palmately 3-5-foliolate leaves, uppermost reduced to bracts of the racemose 

 flowers; fl. in summer. — Am. Monthly Mag. 1818, 267, Am. Jour. Sci. i. 378, 

 & Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 98 (1819) ; DC. Prodr. i. 242; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 122; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 181, t. 79.^ Jacksonia, Raf. Med. Rep. hex. 2, v. 352. 



r. ,xj,v.5sA, Y>(^ . of the East Indies, one of the ambiguous members of this genus, with 

 hardly any claws to the (yellow) petals, and short stamens, is an occasional ballast-weed at 

 eastern ports. The genuine members of the genus are N. American and Mexican. 



* Leaflets and capsules linear : habit of Cristatella : flowers white. 

 P. tenuifolia, Torr. & Gray. Slender, freely branching, viscidulous-puberulent, but the 

 '(3) filiform-linear leaflets nearly smooth and glabrous: petals short-unguiculate, oval or 

 ovate, unequal, larger 2 lines long, about the length of the 9 to 11 unequal stamens: capsule 

 2 inches long, terete, minutely but strongly reticulated, short-stipitate : seeds smooth. — Fl. 

 i. 123. — Sandhills bordering 'the ocean, Georgia? (Le Conte) and E. Florida, Rugel, Palmer, 

 Gurher, Curtiss. 



* * Leaflets 3, oblong-lanceolate to obovate: upper bracts of simple small leaves: capsules 



turgid, lanceolate-oblong: petals white or cream-color, sometimes changing to pink, 



slender-unguiculate, emarginate: filaments 12 to 24, purple. 



P grav.^ ■l-'ns, Raf. Kaceme leafy or short: petals 2 or 3 lines long, little surpassed by 



'the stamens. -'■■'■ -'nly half the length of the ovary: capsule contracted at base into a 



short stipe: seeds su. ■ i. o^ nearly so. -Am. Jour. Sci. i. 379, Jour. Phys. 1. c., & Med. 



Bot ii 61 f 74- Deless. Ic. o- ; "i. t. 6; Torr. & Gray. Fl. i. 123. Cleome dodecandra, 



Michx. Fl'. ii. 32 ; Bart. Fl. N. A. i. oo, . ^^ • Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2. 254 ; not L. C. viscosa, 



Spreng. Syst. ii. 1 25, partly. C. graveokns, ScLv 1 1 ^yst. vii. 45. — Gravelly shores, &c., Lake 



Champlain, the St. Lawrence at Montreal, and Ne,. I'.rk to Minnesota, southward to 



Missouri and Chesapeake Bay, ace. to Porter. 



P trachysperma, Torr. & Gray. Mostly larger: petals 4 or 5 lines iv >-■ capillary 



purple filaments at length 5 or 6 lines long: style as long as the ovary or longer: ca^ i> 



contracted more or less at base but not stipitate : seeds at maturity usually but not always 



roughish or verrucose. — Fl. i. 669; Gray, PL Fendl. 10, & Gen. 111. i. 182, t. 79; Brew. & 



Wats Bot. Calif, i. 51. P. umghndulosa, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 67, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 



35 ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 34 ; not Cav. — Gravelly and sandy banks, &c., Texas to Iowa and 



north to Manitoba, west to Arizona, Oregon, and interior of Brit. Columbia. (Adj. Mex., 



where sometimes petals become pink. ) One extreme nearly passes hito preceding, the other 



approaches the next. Becoming naturalized eastward. 



'p uniglandulosa, DC. Petals (with their filiform claws) over half inch long: capillary 



'filaments H to 2 inches long: stvle long and capillary: capsule commonly 3 or 4 mchcs 



long comparatively narrow, short-stipitate ; valves with midnervc extendmg well toward 



the summit; seed^ smooth. - Prodr. i. 242; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 10; Wats 1. c. Clrown 



uniglandulosa, Cav. Ic. iv. 3, t. 306. — On the Mexican border near El 1 aso, TJ nght. (Mex.) 



1 Baron F. von Mueller and the Kew botanists have recently advocated uniting tins genus witli 

 Cleome, from which, when extended to include foreign species, it is not separable upon very satisfac- 

 tory or constant characters. 



