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Caulanthus iNFtATUS S. Wats. Proc. Ain. Acad. 1 7 : 364. 

 1882. 



Streptanthus in flatus Greene, Fl. Fran. 257. 1891. 



No. 7702, collected April 14, at Johannesburg, Kern county. 

 The "squaw cabbage," as it is locally designated, is abundant at 

 intervals on the Mojave desert, and near Johannesburg and 

 Randsburg is found on the slopes of the low mountains. No 

 definite station for the original is stated except "Mohave Desert, 

 California." The flowers are described as purple, but this is 

 so only in the bud, for after expansion only the lobes of the 

 calyx are purple, the tube and the petals white. 



No. 7724, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern county, 50 

 miles west of Bakersfield on the edge of the inner Coast Range. 

 It has also been collected as far north as Alcalde, Fresno county. 

 These Sunset specimens are nearly past flowering, and the up- 

 per part of rhe stem has lost much of the inflation so character- 

 istic of the flowering state, It was rather abundant on gravelly 

 slopes about a mile southwest of the town. This whole region 

 is rather peculiar, and has furnished several species formerly 

 supposed to occur only on the desert beyond the Tehachapi 

 range. 

 Caulanthus coulteri S, Wats. Bot. King Rep. 27. 187 1. 



No. 7768, collected April 26, about a mile within Kern 

 canyon, Kern county, on steep slopes. This answers fairly well 

 to the original description, except that the uppermost leaves are 

 unequally and coarsely serrate, instead of "entire or rarely den- 

 tate. The lower leaves are oblanceolate with somewhat clasp- 

 ing base, those of the middle and upper part of the stem cordate 

 clasping, auricled; all are thin, the middle ones 3 cm. wide near 

 the base. 



The type was collected in "S. California''' by Thomas Coul- 

 ter. In the Synoptical Flora, 172, it is cited as "kS. Coulteri, 

 Gray, in Wats. Bot. King Exp. 19." but there the name is 

 merely listed, without description, along with several others 

 which should he excluded from Sfrepta^Uhiis. 



