48 CRUCIFER^E. caulanthds. 



DENTARIA. 



C. pilosus Watson Bot. King, 27. Pilosely hispid : stems 2-4 feet high 

 from a biennial root, stout erect branched leaves petioled lyrately pinnat- 

 ifid, the lobes sparingly angular- toothed : flowers greenish white on spread- 

 ing pedicels, the oblong petals narrowed above, 4 lines long : pods slender 

 3-5 inches long by less than a line in diameter, flexuous, widely 

 spreading or recurved. In sandy soil in "sage brush," etc., southeastern 

 Oregon to Nevada and California. 



C. crassicaulis Watson 1. c. Glabrous: stem simple, erect, 1-3 feet 

 high, very thick, fistulous : leaves chiefly clustered at or near the base, ob- 

 lanceolate in outline, lyrately toothed or pinnatifid, 2-5 inches long; cau- 

 line leaves few, much reduced, linear or somewhat hastate: flowers 

 subsessile, large: sepals oblong-lanceolate 5-6 lines long, more or less pub- 

 escent, usually densely so, often velvety : pods ascending, slender, terete 

 4-5 inches long terminated by the conspicuous stigma. On dry foothills 

 and rocky slopes Idaho to Utah and southern California. 



9 DENTARIA Tourn. Inst. 225, t. 110; L. Gen. No. 540. 



Sepals equal at base, erect or nearly so. Petals much longer 

 with slender claw and ovate blade. Pods linear, straight with 

 stout firm nerveless flat valves that do not separate elasticallv, 

 and nerveless partition. Stigma short, capitate or rarely 2-lobed. 

 Seeds in one row, wingless ; cotyledons often thick more or less 

 unequal and somewhat oblique, petiolate. Low, usually gla- 

 brous perennials w T ith commonly simple stems, variously lobed 

 leaves and comparatively large campanulate flowers in very 

 early spring. 



D. tenella Pursh Fl. ii, 439. Stems slender 3-10 inches high from an 

 irregular branching or tuberiferous rootstock : radical leaves shallowly 

 3-5 lobed or coarsely toothed, 6-18 lines long, the petioles often bearing 

 bnlblets on their underground portion : cauline leaves 1-2, sessile, deeply 3- 

 lobed or 3-foliolate with linear or linear-lanceolate entire obtuse segments, 

 6-12 lines long; racemes few-flowered, terminal and sometimes axillary : 

 flowers rose-purple: pods 1-2 inches long by a line broad, attenuate to a 

 slender style and a broad distinctly 2-lobed stigma. Very common in 

 woods, western Oregon and Washington, flowering in very early spring. 



1). sinuata Greene Pitt, iii, 123. Cardamine sinnata Greene Eryth. i, 

 148. Stems 6-18 inches high from tuberous roots, simple or sparingly 

 branched : radical leaf simple from round-reniform to almost orbicular, 

 cordate at base 2-3 inches broad, sinuately lobed, the 9-15 lobes obtuse or 

 almost truncate, conspicuously mucronate; cauline leaves 2 or 3, divided 

 3-5 more or less cuneate leaflets which are lobed or coarsely toothed at 

 the apes : racemes lax, few-flowered: flowers large, rose-purple; pods 2-3 

 incheslong, conspicuously rostrate. Among the "Redwoods" near Cres- 

 cent City, California, no doubt in adjacent Oregon. 



1). pnlcherrima Greene 1. c. Cardamine pulcherrima, Greene 7. c. 

 Stoutisn, stems 4-8 inches high from a rather slender horizontal root; 

 herbage glabrous, somewhat succulent: radical leaf palmately 3-5-lobed- 

 parted-or-divided, with entire lobes or divisions; cauline leaves 1 or 2, 

 when solitary situated near the inflorescence, digitately 3-5 parted into 

 oblong-linear or lanceolate segments an inch long more or less : racemes 

 short, few-flowered ; petals 6-10 lines long, lilac-purple veined with dark 

 purple. In shaded places, eastern Oregon and Washington near The 

 Dalles. 



I), qnercetornm Greene 1. c. Cardamine quercetorum, Howell, Eryth. 

 iii, SS. Glabrous: at< ms slender. 6-12 inches high from a branching scaly 

 root : radical Leaf 3 ■< Eoliolate; leaflets elliptical, coarsely dentate, 1-2 inches 



