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C. inconspicuus Greene Pitt. iii. 134. Erysimum paniftorum NuU. 

 {18S8), not Pers. (1807)" Cinfereoua 'and scabrous with appressed forked 

 hairs : stems erect, 10-18 inches high : leaves narrow, oblong-linear or lan- 

 ceolate, mostly, entire, the radical crowded, sometimes repand-dentate : 

 sepals linear-oblong, acute, 3 lines long, little surpassed by the narrow sul- 

 phur-yellow petals; pedicels 2-3 lines long, spreading in fruit : pods slen- 

 der, suberect,, 1-.2 inches long, scarcely narrowed above, tipped with a short 

 stout style and 2-lobed stigma. Eastern Washington to Alaska, Wyoming 

 and Minnesota. 



C. elatus Greene 1. c. 135. Erysimum elatum NuU. Scabrous and usu- 

 ally canescent with appressed 2-parted hairs: stems erect from a biennial 

 or short-lived perennial root, 1-6 feet high, usually simple, angled ; leaves 

 lanceolate to entire or repand-dentate, or the lowest pinnatifid : petals 

 yellow or orange, 6-8 lines long, with broadly obovate auborbicular, blade 

 the very slender claw, much exceeding the oblong or linear sepals: pods 

 2-5 inches long by a line wide usually sharply angled, erect or spreading 

 on spreading pedicels 2-6 lines long ; style 1-2 lines long ; stigma some- 

 what 2-lobed: seeds oblong, brown, often sharply wing-appendaged at the 

 apex. Common on dry hillsides, California to Brit. Columbia. 



* * * Flowers large or middle-sized, pods more strongly flatten- 

 . ed, l-nerved or somewhat keeled. 



C. occiden talis Watson Proc. Amer. Acad, xxiii, 261. Erysimum uc- 

 eidentak, Roh. Stems erect, simple or branching from near the base, 2-18 

 inches high, from an annual or biennial root, becoming stout, angular, 

 finely pubescent with appressed forked 'hairs : narrowly linear to lance-lin- 

 ear, leaves attenuate to long slender petioles entire or nearly so : racemes 

 at first short, but becoming 4-8 inches long iti fruit : pedicels stout, spread- 

 ing 2-4 lines long; petals light yellow, 8-10 lines long, much exceeding the 

 pale narrowly-oblong strongly saccate calyx ; pods 3-4 inches long, 1% lines 

 broad, rather abruptly beaked; style slender, 2 lines long; stigma small: 

 seeds oblong, rather broadly winged : cotyledons accumbent. On sandy or 

 gravelly banks, Klickitat county, Washington to Nevada. 



C. arenicola Greene 1. c. 131. Erysimum arenicola Watson Proc. Am. 

 Acad, ocxvi, 142. Cespitose perennial : stems several from the densely mul- 

 ticipital caudex, terete, 6-8 inches high ; leaves very numerous, chiefly 

 clustered at the base, oblanceolate, repandly denticulate, including the 

 petiole 1}4 inches long, 2-3 lines broad, pubescent with white appressed 

 2-3 pointed hairs; racemes short, rather few-fiowered: pedicels spreading, 

 a line long: sepals 4 lines long; petals unknown: pods very gradually nar- 

 rowed to a point : cotyledons oblique-incumbent. Olympic Mountains 

 Washington, 5000 feet altitude. C. V. Piper. 



C. capitatns Dougl. in Hook. Fl. 1, 38. Cheiranthus anper Cham. & 

 Schlecht. in Linniea i, 14. Finely pubescent .with appressed 2-parted or on the 

 lowest leaves somewhat stellate hairs : stem 3-24 inches high from a per- 

 ennial root, somewhat angular, stout, simple or less frequently branched, 

 sometimes from the base : leaves oblong to spatulate ■ or linear, attenuate 

 below, entire or more or less deeply repand-dentate: flowers light yellow, 

 in a many-flowered at first sabcapitate but elongating raceme: petals 8-12 

 lines long, with broad rounded blade and slender claw: pods 1-4 inches 

 long, 1-1'J^ lines broad; valves flattish, l-nerved: style. stout, ,3^-1 liae 

 long: stigma broad: seeds oblong, brown, margined. Common on the 

 coast from Curry county, Oregon to California. 



3 NASTURTIUM B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2, iv, 109. 



Perennial herbs with lyrately compound or simple and pin- 

 ^natifid or undivided leaves and 'white flowers. Sepals erpct. Pet- 

 als unguiculate. Pods short, turgid, little compressed, nerveless. 



