WBST AMBEICAN CBUCIFEKuK. 87 



pods slender, straight, acute, 1 to J inches lonff, spreading or 

 deflexed, not strongly compressed, lightly tonilose: seeds oval, 

 thickish, marginless. 



Tehipite Valley, Fresno Co , Calif. Hall & Chandler, July, 

 1900, distributed under n. 492 ; type in U. S. Herb. 



P. MAGNA. Stout glabrous glaucous annual branched from 

 near the base^ 2 feet high : lowest leaves spatulate-obovate, 3 

 inches long, IJ broad, coarsely dentate, the broad triangular 

 teeth not callous-tipped, those subtending the branches shorter, 

 cordate-ovate, obtuse, entire or nearly so : flowers not seen : 

 fruiting raceme long, lax, the pedicels 1 to li inches long, 

 stoutish, ascending : pods very long and slender, 3 to 4 J inches 

 long, subterete, scarcely torulose, straight and ascending or 

 subfalcate-recurved, tipped with a prominent style: seeds small, 

 oblong-linear, marginless. 



This plant, truly remarkable for its size among members of 

 this group, was sent me many years since, by W. G. Wright, of 

 San Bernardino, for my opinion as to its being Streptanthus 

 Brtweri, to which, in habit and foliage it bears no slight resem- 

 blance; and I am confident its place is near it. It was found by 

 Mr. "Wright at an elevation of 4900 feet in the San Bernardino 

 Mountains, in 1889. 



Ecologically connecting with the last, as well as more or less 

 truly allied to it by the long narrow pods and nearly or quite 

 wingless seeds, are several streptanthoid plants of southern 

 California which for several reasons I decline to refer to Pleio- 

 cardia. They are still further removed from Euclisia. They 

 are perennials also, and have their congeneric affinity, I am per- 

 suaded, with such plants as Ifuttall's Streptanthus cordaius and 

 my own segregates of that. Here also I would place that plant 

 of northern California that is called ^V. barbatus. It falls into 

 none of the genera proposed in this paper; and the whole group 

 of these perennials, every member of which is, I think, foreign to 

 Streptanthus, needs to be studied carefully in connection with all 

 those embraced wi bhin Mr. Watson's confused and illogical Cau. 



