BULLETIN 



OF THE 



SoutliGrn Galllornia ftcademy ot Sciences 



VOL 2. ^ LOS ANGELES, CAL, APRIL I, 1903. NO. 4 



116 North liROAx>nAY 



NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLANTS. 



BY LE ROY ABRAMS. 



Lepidium acutidens, (Gray). 



Lepidium dictyotnm varf acutidens, Gray. Proc. Amer. 

 Acad. 12 : 54. 1876. 



Type locality Yreka, California. 



Branching from the base, the branches decumbent or as- 

 cending, 10-20cni. longv pubescent throughout with short 

 spreading hairs, leaves linear, tapering at both ends, entire or 

 faintly and remotely denticulate, 2-5cm. long, about 2mm. 

 wide ; branches flowering about two-thirds their length ; ra- 

 cemes rather loose ; pedicels strongly flattened, 3-4mm. long, 

 more or less, appressed to the stem to near the middle, then 

 curving outward; pod strongly reticulated, sparsely pubescent, 

 4mm. long including the acute teeth, about 3mm. broad; sinus 

 about 1mm. deep and 2mm. broad at the tip. 



The loose and longer racemes, the spreading pedicels, the 

 larger pods, and the spreading acute teeth readily distinguish 

 this from L. dictyotnm. 



Cheiranthus suffrutescens. 



Perennial, more or less branched, the branches woody, Ira. 

 long or less, often straggling among low shrubs, rough from 

 the persistent bases of the old leaves, usually about 5mm. thick, 

 the floral branches clustered at the ends of the main ones. 



