148 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
inches long. The pods, in the stronger specimens, are twice 
as large as in Hooker’s figure and description.! 
(216.*) Drapa PLaTYcaRPA, Torr. & Gr. FI. 1. p. 108. 
This is not the same as No. 216 (D. cuneifolia) of the former 
1 VESICARLE Boreali-Americanze Synoptice Disposite. 
Sect. I. Vesicarrana, DC. Silicula globosa, raro pyriformis, valvis membranaceis 
inflatis. 
nnuc seu bien 
* Seminibus Np: sty stylo cqui (ctipitata) dimidio vel ultra breviore ; 
er caulinis basi 
GRANDIFLORA ‘(Hook . Bot. c t 3164): caulibus pube brevi subcinereis ; 
foliis seepe sinuato-pinnatifidis dentatisve; stylo silicula 2-3-plo breviore. V. brevi- 
styla, Torr. § Gr. FUI. p. 102 pipidae pari p. 668.) The septum is not veinless, 
as is said by Don, but h tretehing from the apex towards the base, 
the genus. 
2. V. TA (Engelm. § Gray, Pl. Lindh. No. 217, p. 32): mon pe- 
Pentasa hirsutis ; floritus minoribus ; stylo silicula dimidio brevioribu 
** Seminibus Aare e erg stylo silicula subequalibus aut long are ; Joliis 
;h h ; Join 
t Silicul . j stipitala, globesa 
i Racemo etiam a frudifero densi floro ; pedicellis erectiusculis vel subpatentibus. 
328 
DW E o. 326. 
9. V. Snort, Torr. § Gr. Fl. 1. p. 102. — The silicles, in the pid vef Herb. 
Torr., the only one I have ever seen, are nearly all sterile and imperfectly grown; 
fotos. their small size in proportion to the length of the style. In one p. however, 
—— — small for the genus, I found a single ripe (marginless) seed 
y filling the cell; in this case the style was no longer than the eim The 
oe although not saleda well known, is unlike any other here enumerated. 
3A peri sparsifloro; siliculis nutantibus. 
CURVATA, Engelm. Vide supra, No. 330. 
E bocas breviter stipitatá obovato- posi seu pyriformi; foliis caulinis sub- 
repandis, 
7. V. Nurratin (Torr. §& Gr. Fl. 1. p. 101): MES filamentis 
basi — silicula pyriformi pia basic constrict. 
8. V. REP DA (Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. l. c.): daa floribus majoribus ; fila® 
+ Dit 
mentis dila sensim angustatis; silicula immatura subglobosi-obova vata. — 
There imens with full-grown silicles, while those of V. Nuttallii are alto- 
gether fruitful, with nog no good fowers. There is much reason ‘to suspect that the two 
belong to one species. V. Nuttallii u sually has a shorter but distinct stipe to the 
gracilis. 
pod; but tn onear a is fully as long as in 
tti Silicula manifeste stipitata, ezacle globosa. TUBAE 
t Floribus saturate flavis. 
zi V. cracitis (Hook. vue ous an glabrata, erectiuseula; ‘ols lanceola- 
ME pedicellis « is; sil 
