CAPER FAMILY. Capparidaceae. 
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Yellow Cleome An odd-looking plant, with are etty, 
Cleéme platycarpa feathery flower-clusters. The hairy stem 
Yellow is over a foot tall and the leaves are bright 
Spring yellowish-green and mostly smooth on the 
Nevada 
upper side, with hairy margins and hairy 
on the under side. The flowers are a warm shade of 
bright golden-yellow and form a handsome, rather flat- 
topped cluster, with long stamens, and the oblong pods are 
an inch long or less, flat and much broader than those of 
the last. The flowers are slightly sweet-scented and the 
whole plant exudes a faint unpleasant odor. This is 
conspicuous on the dreary mesas around Reno, often 
growing with Cleomella longipes, which it very much 
resembles in general appearance, except for the pods, 
which are quite different. 
There is only one kind of Isomeris. 
This is a shrub about three feet high, 
Bladderpod . : 2 ; 
Isémeris arborea Which is attractive except for its un- 
Yellow pleasant smell. The leaves are smooth, 
Spring toothless, stiffish and thickish, and bluish- 
California 
green, with a small bristle at the tip, and 
mostly with three leaflets. The pretty flowers are nearly 
an inch across and warm yellow in color, not very bright 
but pretty in tone, with six very long, yellow stamens, and 
form a short, oblong cluster. The ovary has such a long 
stalk, even in the flower, that it gives an odd appearance 
and it develops into a very curious and conspicuous, 
drooping pod, an inch and a half long, much inflated and 
resembling a very fat pea-pod, on a long stalk, with two 
rows of seeds like little peas inside it, which taste very 
bitter. This is quite common on southern mesas. The 
name Bladderpod is also used for Lesquerella, which belongs 
to the Mustard Family. 
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