MUSTARD FAMILY. Cruciferae. 
tinguish, smooth plants, often with a “bloom”; stems 
branching; leaves often clasping at base, the lower ones 
usually more toothed or lobed than the upper. The 
flowers are very peculiar in shape, not like most Mustards, 
but suggesting the shape of a Bleeding Heart flower; the 
sepals usually colored like the petals, two or all of them 
bulging at base, so that the calyx is broad below and con- 
tracted above; the corolla regular or irregular, the petals 
purple or white, with claws and narrow, wavy or crisp 
borders; the stamens four long and two short, or in three 
unequal pairs, the longest pair often united below; the 
pods long, narrow, flattish or cylindrical, on a broad 
receptacle; the seeds flat and more or less winged. These 
plants are called Jewel-flower, but the name does not seem 
particularly appropriate. 
Nothing about this odd-looking plant is 
— pretty and it almost seems as if it were 
reaneos trying to make up by eccentricity for its 
Yellowish, lack of beauty. It is common in dry, 
purplish sandy places in the mountains and our 
smal attention is first attracted to the tall, 
California 
branching stalks, because they are strung 
with such queer-looking leaves. Insummer the upper ones 
are bright-yellow or dull-purple and they clasp the stem 
and curve over, so that they look like small brass shields, 
pierced by the stem. There are three or four of these 
curving leaves, very smooth and shiny, and several more 
below, which are flatter and dark-green, and the stem, from 
six inches to three feet high, is oddly twisted and leans to 
oneside. Thesmall flowers are yellowish or mauve, veined 
with purple, less than half an inch long and peculiar in 
shape. The contrast in color between the flowers and 
leaves is very odd and very ugly, but as if this were not 
enough, later in the season the curious thing hangs itself 
with ridiculously long, slender pods, like great hooks, and 
looks queerer and more disheveled than ever. 
Prettier and not so queer-looking as the 
— last. The leaves are arrow-shaped, clasp- 
apemmgumme her leathery, bluish 
Sirepténthus ing at base, rather lea nery, wis -green, 
Arizonicus with a “‘bloom” and tinged with purple 
White on the backs, the lower ones toothed, and 
— the pods are about two inches long, flat 
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and tinged with purple. The flowers are 
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