Stanleya
(named in compliment to Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, who took an interest in many sciences, especially ornithology). ORD. Cruciferae. A genus comprising three species of stout, hardy, glaucous, perennial herbs, confined to California. Flowers yellow, many in elongated, straight racemes; sepals short, spreading; petals narrow, elongated, long-clawed. Leaves undivided or pinnatifid. S. pinnatifida--the only species introduced to cultivation--is a pretty plant, thriving in vegetable mould, in the open border. It may be in creased by seeds, or by divisions.
S. pinnatifida (pinnatifid-leaved). fl. yellow, very closely resembling those of a species of Cleome May. l. interruptedly pinnatifid, thick, similar to those of a species of Brassica. h. 3ft. 1812.