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*- * Biennials or perennials : flowers diurnal {opening in sunshine), yellow : pods club- 

 shaped, with 4 strong or winged angles and 4 intermediate ribs, 



4. CE. glauea, Michx. Very glabrous, glaucous; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate ; pods obovoid-oblong, 4-winged; almost sessile ; root perennial. — Moun- 

 tains of Virginia, Kentucky, and southward. May -July. — Leaves broader 

 and flowers larger than in the next. 



5. CE. fruticdsa, L. (Sundrops.) Hairy or nearly smooth (l°-3° 

 high) ; leaves lanceolate or oblong ; raceme corymbed, naked below ; petals broadly 

 obcordate, longer than the calyx-lobes and stamens ; pods oblong-club-shaped, 4- 

 winged, longer than the pedicels ; root perennial. — Open places, S. New England 

 to Illinois, and southward. June -Aug. — Corolla 1^' broad. 



6. CE. riparia, Nutt. Scarcely pubescent ; leaves linear-lanceolate, elon- 

 gated, tapering below and somewhat stalked; flowers (large) in a rather leafy at 

 length elongated raceme ; petals slightly obcordate ; pods oblong -club-shaped, slen- 

 der-pedicelled, scarcely 4-winged ; root biennial. — River-banks and swamps, Qua- 

 ker Bridge, New Jersey, to Virginia and southward. 



7. CE. linearis, Michx. Slender, minutely hoary-pubescent; leaves linear ; 

 flowers (rather large) somewhat corymbed at the end of the branches ; pods ob- 

 ocate, hoary, scarcely \-winged at the summit, tapering into a slender pedicel. — Mon- 

 tauk Point, Long Island, to Virginia and southward. June, July. — Plant 1° 

 high, bushy-branched : flowers I' wide. 



8. CE. chrysantha, Michx. Slender, smooth or pubescent ; leaves lance- 

 olate, rather blunt ; flowers crowded or at first corymbed ; petals obovate, notched 

 at the end {orange-yellow), longer than the stamens : pods all pedicelled, oblong-club- 

 shaped, scarcely wing-angled; root biennial 1 ? — Banks, Oswego, New York, to 

 Wisconsin and northward. July. — Stem 12'- 15' high ; flowers larger than in 

 No. 9, from which it may not be distinct. 



9. CE. pumila, L. Almost smooth, small ; leaves lanceolate or oblanceoi 'ate, 

 mostly obtuse ; flowers in a loose and prolonged leafy raceme ; petals obcordate 

 {jiale yellow), scarcely longer than the stamens ; pods almost sessile, oblong-club- 

 shaped, strongly wing-angled ; root perennial or biennial ? — Dry fields : com- 

 mon northward, and southward along the Alleghanies. June. — Stems mostly 

 simple, 5'- 12' high : the corolla ^' broad. 



§ 2. Tube of the calyx funnel -form, strongly 4-nerved, and shorter than the cylindrical 

 ovary, its lobes keeled with the midrib: filaments opposite the petals shorter : an- 

 thers oblong, versatile : stigma disk-shaped, almost entire : flowers opening in sun- 

 shine or daylight. 



10. CE. serrulata, Nutt. Stems low, slightly woody at the base ; leaves 

 lance-linear, oblanceolate or linear-spatulate, sharply serrulate or toothed ; flow- 

 ers axillary mostly small ; petals yellow, obovate, wavy-crenulate, much longer 

 than the stamens ; pods cylindrical, puberulent. — Falls of St. Anthony, Wis- 

 consin {Lesquereux, T. J Hale), and westward. 



5. JUSSI.ZEA, L. Jussi^a. 



Calyx-tube elongated, not at all prolonged beyond the ovary ; the lobes 4-6, 

 herbaceous and persistent. Petals 4-9. Stamens twice as many as the petals. 



