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the veins; slender petioles about idm. long, pubescent with 

 spreading hairs; stem leaves one below each branch, one or two 

 of the lower much like the basal ones, the upper ones merely 

 cut into several linear lobes, almost sessile: flowers scattered, on 

 long filiform bracted peduncles of idm. or less: sepals reflexed, 

 not over half the length of the petals: petals oblong, blunt, 

 7-8mm. long, 2-3mm. wide, glossy, prominently veined: heads 

 globose, achenes flattened, about 2mm. across, glabrous, tipped 

 by the uncinate beak, which is more than half the length of the 

 body. 



No. 3935, collected June 13, 1898, at Montesano, Chehalis 

 county, Washington, altitude about 200 feet. This species, 

 which grows on dry gravelly slopes, was distributed in 1898 

 under the above name. It is a relative of R. occideiitalis^ and 

 a comparison with the type of that species, preserved in the her- 

 barium of Columbia University, seems to warrant the segrega- 

 tion. True R. occidentalism a very hairy plant, collected by Nut- 

 tal near the mouth of the Columbia river, is rare in collections; 

 the plant described under that name by Howell in his Flora of 

 Northwest America seems to be R. tejiitipes. 



Erysimiim asuiiiopMliim 



Biennial? stems solitary, stout, often 6dm. high, large plants 

 branched in the upper half, purplish, angled, pubescent with 

 short, straight, closely appressed hairs: leaves at the base of the 

 stem densely crov/ded, linear or linear-lanceolate, 5-7cm. long, 

 somewhat runcinate toothed, the petiole nearly as long as the 

 blade, pubescent like the stem with appressed hairs; stem leaves 

 scattered, narrowly lanceolate, gradually reduced, the upper ses- 

 sile or nearly so, with a forked or stellate pubescence: flowers 

 bright golden yellow, large, 2cm. long and nearly as wide when 

 expanded; calyx rather thick, urn-shaped, pale, pubescent with 

 appressed hairs, sepals oblong, acutish, the upper half hyaline 

 margined, the inner ones saccate at base, broader and slightly 

 shorter than the outer ones: wing of the petal broadly obovate, 

 I cm. long and almost as wide, claw about 2mm. wide above, 



