MUSTARD FAMILY. Cruciferae. 



half an inch long, pearly-white, the petals yellowish, 

 veined with purple, and are quite pretty. This grows in 

 dry places. 



There are only a few kinds of Stanleya, all western; 

 tall, stout, smooth perennials, or biennials, with a "bloom"; 

 flowers large, mostly yellow, without bracts, in long, ter- 

 minal, clusters; sepals long, narrow; petals long, narrow, 

 with long claws; stamens six, very nearly equal; ovary on a 

 short stalk, with a short style or none; pods long, narrow 

 and flattish, with long stalks ; seeds numerous. Named for 

 Lord Edward Stanley, President of the Linnaean Society. 

 The pretty common name of this tall, 

 Golden Prince's handsome plant was given by Helen Hunt 

 Plume 

 Stanleya Jackson and the long, feathery wand of 



pinnatifi'ta numerous blossoms is beautiful and sug- 



Yellow gests a plume. On the other hand, the 



pnng straggling flowers have such long, narrow, 



Southwest and 6 ^ u 8 ' 



New M ex. curling petals, the threadlike filaments 



look so much like curling antennae and the 

 long, thin pods stick out so awkwardly, like insects' legs, 

 from among the flowers on the lower part of the stalk, that 

 we find the general effect is rather weird and spidery. In 

 fact the plant I drew had a large yellow spider, precisely 

 the color of the flowers, half-concealed among them. The 

 stem is from two to five feet high; the leaves are smooth, 

 pale bluish-green, the lower ones with leaflets and a leaf- 

 stalk, and the flowers are bright-yellow, or cream-color, 

 about an inch across. This grows usually in dampish 

 spots, in arid regions. The picture is of one I found in 

 Indian Garden Canyon, a branch of the Grand Canyon. 



The only kind, a fine plant, well worth 

 Dryopelalon ' . 



runcinaium cultivation; smooth and branching, about 



White two feet tall, with handsome, bluish-green 



Spring leaves, with a "bloom," the root-leaves 



Arizona with long, purplish leaf-stalks and some 



times nine inches long; the flowers half an inch across, wit! 

 a lilac-tinged calyx and white petals, prettily toothed 

 forming a pretty, rather flat- topped cluster. The pods are 

 very slender, nearly straight, one or two inches long. This 

 grows among rocks, in protected situations, and is not 

 common. Only a few, separate flowers are given in the 

 picture, as the plant I found, near the Desert Laboratory 

 at Tucson, was almost out of bloom. 

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