MUSTARD FAMILY. Cruciferae. 
half an inch long, pearly-white, the petals yellowish, 
veined with purple, and are quite pretty. This grows in 
dry places. 
There are only a few kinds of Stanleya, all western; 
tall, stout, smooth perennials, or biennials, witha “bloom’’; 
flowers large, mostly yellow, without bracts, in long, ter- 
minal, clusters; sepals long, narrow; petals long, narrow, 
with long claws; stamens six, very nearly equal; ovary ona 
short stalk, with a short style or none; pods long, narrow 
and flattish, with long stalks; seedsnumerous. Named for 
Lord Edward Stanley, President of the Linnaean Society. 
The pretty common name of this tall, 
Golden Prince’s handsome plant was given by Helen Hunt 
Pl 
Sains Jackson and the long, feathery wand of 
pinnatifida numerous blossoms is beautiful and sug- 
Avera gests a plume. On the other hand, the 
Spring 
Saeithnesicare acks straggling flowers have such long, narrow, 
‘ea Max. curling petals, the threadlike filaments 
look so much like curling antennae and the 
long, thin pods stick out so awkwardly, like insects’ legs, 
from among the flowers on the lower part of the stalk, that 
we find the general effect is rather weird and spidery. In 
fact the plant I drew had a large yellow spider, precisely 
the color of the flowers, half-concealed among them. The 
stem is from two to five feet high; the leaves are smooth, 
pale bluish-green, the lower ones with leaflets and a leaf- 
stalk, and the flowers are bright-yellow, or cream-color, 
about an inch across. This grows usually in dampish 
spots, in arid regions. The picture is of one I found in 
Indian Garden Canyon, a branch of the Grand Canyon. 
The only kind, a fine plant, well worth 
D étal é E : 
Sac eet: cultivation; smooth and branching, about 
White two feet tall, with handsome, bluish-green 
Spring leaves, with a ‘‘bloom,”’ the root-leaves 
ers with long, purplish leaf-stalks and some- 
times nine inches long; the flowers half an inch across, with 
a lilac-tinged calyx and white petals, prettily toothed, 
forming a pretty, rather flat-topped cluster. The pods are 
very slender, nearly straight, one or two inches long. This 
grows among rocks, in protected situations, and is not 
common. Only a few, separate flowers are given in the 
picture, as the plant I found, near the Desert Laboratory 
at Tucson, was almost out of bloom. 
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