226 LEAFLETS. 



In a paragraph beginning on page 87, preceding, I have already 

 outlined a group which I shall proceed to discuss under the new 

 generic name Cartieea. These are very far removed from Dis- 

 accanthus in habit, being perennials, and having a thick foliage 

 which in texture is intermediate between coriaceous and succu- 

 lent, and is either entire or merely toothed. On the stem under 

 the inflorescence the scattered foliage takes the form of large 

 cordate bracts, in this recalling Fleiocardia, as I said. The calyx 

 is closed, its sepals thick and subsucculent, very often showing 

 the peculiarity of a few spinulose or bristly hairs at tip, just 

 below a narrow scarious margin. The pods are large, flat, filled 

 with seeds not so thin, but usually wing-margined. 



The following is a partial list of the species of Caetiera : 

 C. COEDATA. Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. under Sireptanthus. 

 C. CEAssiFOLiA. Greene, Pitt., iv, 227, " " 



0. AEGUTA. Greene, " " " " " " 



C. HowELLii. Wats. Am. Acad, xx, 353, " " 



C. BAEBATA. Wats. Am. Acad. XXV, 125, " " 



C. MULTiCBPS. Leafy caudex much branched, surmounting a 

 long taproot : basal leaves round-obovate, less than I inch long, 

 sharply serrate-toothed : flowering stems simple, 4-6 inches 

 high, their many leaves oval, entire, sessile, clasping, all the 

 herbage glabrous, very glaucous : pods linear, more than 3 inches 

 long, 1 line wide, slightly curved upwards : seeds oval, nar- 

 rowly winged. 



Guano Kanch, Harney Co., Oregon, 24 July, 1896, Coville & 

 Leiberg, n. 2, as in U. S. Herb. 



C. LEPTOPBTALA. Size of the last, not multicipitous, herbage 

 thinner, less glaucous : lowest leaves spatulate-obovate, toothed 

 across the summit, the cauline subquadrate-oblong, IJ inches 

 long, acute, often toothed at apex, flower more than I inch long, 

 limb of petals very long and narrow ; tips of sepals prickly : 

 pods unusually narrow, 2-3 inches long. 



