. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Lesquerella ovalifolia Rydb. Oval- leaved Bladder-pod. Fig. 2017. Lesquerella ovalifolia Rydb.; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 2: 137. 1897- Perennial from a tufted caudex, pale, densely stellate-canescent. Basal leaves tufted, broadly oval to obovate, sometimes nearly orbicular, entire, obtuse or subacute, 1-2' long, narrowed into rather long petioles; stem-l
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Lesquerella ovalifolia Rydb. Oval- leaved Bladder-pod. Fig. 2017. Lesquerella ovalifolia Rydb.; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 2: 137. 1897- Perennial from a tufted caudex, pale, densely stellate-canescent. Basal leaves tufted, broadly oval to obovate, sometimes nearly orbicular, entire, obtuse or subacute, 1-2' long, narrowed into rather long petioles; stem-leaves distant, sessile, or the lowest short-petioled, ^ linear-ob- lanceolate or narrowly spatulate; fruiting pedi- cels comparatively stout, ascending, 6"-io" long; pods very short-stipitate, subglobose, obtuse, 2i"- 3" in diameter, glabrous; style about 3" long; seeds about 6 in each cell. In dry soil, Nebraska, Kansas and 6. Lesquerella arctica (DC.) S. Wats. Arctic Bladder-pod. Fig. 2018. Alyssumf arcticum DC. Syst. 2: 324. 1821. Vesicaria arctica Richards. Frank. lourn. 743. 1823. Lesquerella arctica S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23; 254. 1888. Perennial, tufted, densely stellate-pubescent, stem nearly or quite simple, erect, I'-s' tall. Leaves oblanceolate, or spatulate, or the upper oblong, i' long or less, obtuse, entire, the basal ones narrowed into broad petioles, the upper sessile; petals about 2" long; pods oval or subglo- bose, obtuse, 2"-3" high, glabrous or somewhat stellate- pubescent, few-seeded; septum perforated; style i" or less long. Greenland and arctic America. Summer. The plant described as Lesquerella arctica Purshii S. Watts., is taller, sometimes 6' high : the septum of the sparsely stellate- pubescent pod unperforated. Anticosti. 6. PHYSARIA A. Gra}-, Gen. 111. i: 162. 1848. Low perennial stellate-canescent herbs, with erect or ascending usually quite simple stems, spatulate mostly entire leaves, the
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