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Nasturtium* sinuatum Columbia River & Arkansas
a second specimen on the same sheet is
marked "arkansas" also "Sisymbrium*sinuatum"
(1) looks perennial, all lvs sinuate-dentate, cuneine
petiolate 3-6 cm. long numerous on stems,
plant is in young flower.
(2) looks perennial; leaves all similar except very
upper most, petiolate, sinuato-dentate, glabrous,
very small auricles at base, infl. congested,
pedicels slender, 1-1.5 cm. long, at right
angles to slightly reflexed; sepals glab, linear-
oblont to broader, petals obovate, only exceeding
sepals by 1-2 mm.; sep. ca. 4 mm. long.
Nasturtium curviligina Columbia shores
not marked with an asterisk and with note
by E.L. S. "not so!!"
The plant looks very much like the one
described under (2) above except that the
silgives & are covered with small scales as in
the rachis etc.; the stems also have there scales but
the leaves are free of them- pedicels divericate,
8-12 mm. long, silgives ca. 8 mm., straight to
rather markedly curved upward, style ca. 1 mm.
long;