For example, the Jemez range, one of the largest in the state, has never been visited by any botanist. 4 or 5·toothed, glabrous, with 6 hairs; pedlcels slender, articulated at the base of the perianthb, 1 mm.
CHENOPODIACEAE
In diameter, not narrowed at the base, obtuse, scattered along the stems; tlowel'~ axillary, coHtnry; petioles thick, 2 or 3 mm. debt; seplils e1l1pUc- lallceolate, about 7 mm. long, crimson rOO; stamens about 20. Slender, spreadingly branched perennial; stems decumbent at the base, finely compressed-puberulent; len "'e8 Near or linear-elliptic, bright green, numerous, glabrous, somewhat slightly pointed, 8 to 12 red flowers, many, on slender, erect almost glabrous carpels, 10 to 15 mm long; sepals luceolate to lacy-ovate , reduced to long, oblong spikes, glabrous, bright green with sharp edges, 4 to 5 mm longer than the sepals: capsules 1 to 2 mm.
FOMARTMJEAE
BRASSICACEAE
A dense, compact, rooted perennial, 4 to 6 cm. high, from a thick, woody root; leaves numerous, crowded on the short, sturdy stems; leaves llDC8.roblHncoolate, 25 to 30 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide or less, sharp, thick, white in color. 8 dense.lepldate-steliate pube5eence. weaken to the btlse; pedlcels lew, axillary or all arising from the tips of the branches, never racemose, 20 mm. tall, upright. usually shorter than the leaves; SelJftls Ilneur.
CAPPABJDACEAE
Probably biennlnl, glahrolls, about 40 elU. high: flterns slender, fully branched. grayish, purplish at the base, the branches strongly ascending; .. pay attention ]eSH'es trlllnJ!'ulnr·limceolate, atteuuute.. lnucol1s. entire, slightly corrugated, completely enclosing at the base, the lobes blunt, up to 7 rum. long; pedlcels ascending, slender, about 5 mm. long; sepnIs narrowly elongated, obtuse.
HYDR.ANGEACEAE
-NEW CRAFTS FROM NEW MEXICO. 129 .. shorter claws, as well as 9S ot n deeper color, indorescence ,'mous inetee.d glabl'ous, and capsules smaller and on much shorter stalks. Type In U. S. National Herbm'lum, no. 40788. collected at Huachuca Mountnius in southern Arizona.
ROSACEAE
4 mm. long or le86; no flowers to be seen; bYlmntblum and sepals persistent; fruit !Sessile in bYPlluthiuw, globose. WOOTON AND STANDLEY NEW PLANTS FROM NEW MEXICO.. A. tree 7 feet high or procumbent, with smooth, reddish-brown trunk and slender, thinly drooping branches; young branches and inflorescence glabrous; .. leaves ovate. obovate or oval, 5 or 6 cm. long, acute or slightly acuminate, truncate or usually rounded at the base, thln. bright green, shiny. about the same color on both oblong, finely toothed with compressed teeth; .. petioles slender, glabrous, from one-third to one tip as long as the leaves; leaves glabrate III nge. when young with rather profuse brownish brown coloration along the mld\'ein, some of this persisting to maturity; fiowel in slender, lax inflorescences; petioles slender.. fruit black, glabrous. globose, 7 or 8 mm. in diameter. sessile in hypo.nth.
CAESALPINIACEAE,
Stems spreading, thick, striated, densely and finely puberulent, armed with very stout, disnoted, recurved spines; leaves blplnnate, with 5 or 6 pairs ot.
FABACEAE
Jong, fat. the mucronates. bright green and glnbl'oU8 nllo"e, with a few scattered hairs laid down; pubescent; serlceons hi. lobe. about equa I, hro.'ld, rather obtuse; corolla 12 mm. long, blue and lit; trult not visible. NEW PLANTS FROM NEW MEXICO. culm; raeUDea ratber densely 1y very~ flowered, pedunc long, about 5 cm, flowers each, angled, glabrous, straw-colored, few stamens clear, yellow, lobes lanceolate, pale green, silky pubescent along margins; corolla rose-purple, about 8 mm. ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Near Belen, August 1, 1906. This suggests P. gra1lanus, but leaves not lobed as in thot species.style Is long: and slender.
Phasco7UR 1vrightil A. Gray, PI.. slender, Climbing stems, these sparsely puberulent;. st1pules small, trlangular·lnceolate; petioles one ball to two· thirds as long 8S Jenfiets; lenfiets deeply 3-lobed, at least the tenninnl one-. lobes narrowly oblong or rhombic, obtuse, pale green, thin, almost smooth. gltlbrOliS or puberulent, pubescent about the flowers: tlowet'"S tew, dis.-. long or less; calyx puherllient, the lobes broadly rounded. broad, curved, densely soft-pubescent. collected In the San Lule Mountains, September 5.
GERANIACEAE
LINACEAE
ZYGOPHI !'I,ACEAE
RUTACEAE
POLYGAT,ACEAE
EUPHORBIACEAE
Rutosma texuntun, the other species in the Southwest, is found in western Texas and adjacent Mexico. A very duferent plant from any of the other srekles of the genus, differing most conspicuously 10 in the width and shape of the leaves and leaves. 20 to 35 mm, long, pubescent; Fruiting body turgite, vesicular, strongly reticulate, wlniS small, 15 mm.
1 Report of the Boundary Commission on the Marking of the Boundary Between the United States, the 8th Mexico West of the Rio Grande, pl.
MALVACEAE
30 to 40 rum. long, deeply piOIlutifid, the segments trlangular-Ianceolnte Bnd acute, densely str1gU- losing aml somewhat hairsuut; calyx approximately 25 million. tall; sepals 15 mm. long, . fine nppn~~sed·lnt])e.<;selt and birsute; crown 20 IDD). collected on the San Augustiue Plaill~. but with deeply pinnnti6d and sbort·peUolate leaves and different pubescence. Low perenI1:lal, 15 em. tall, from a thick, woody base; stems very numerous, simple or branched, slender. flexible, fine and dense VlllOU8, glandular; .. leaves ,'ery numerous, green, elliptlc·lanceolnte.. 15 to 20 mm. long, acute, enUre or nearly so, glandular-puberulent or glaudulnr-puberulent; calyx tube 4 em. long, slender, acutely glandular or villous; sepals 12 Will. long, slightly VILLolle, the tree tips 2 DlIll. tall; l1etai8 12 to IS mill. tall. rOllnded·obo\"ate; caPSUICM cylindrical, erect. 13 mill. long. soft-puberescent and glandular. Caudex short and thick; IM'·es 20 to 30 em. long, narrowly oblnnceolate. deeply 1)looatifid near the base tnto nnrrow.
Perennial, 00 cm. hlgb or les~. with slender, wenke, decnmbent branches; .. stems se\'eral bangs each root. branched, hirsute, the hairs I'isln~ from PlllllJlro. also minutely cinereou8, but spartngly so; cn ullne leaves lanceolate or elllptlc·lnnceolate, 7 to 9 cm. long, 25 mm. wile or less. irregular, acute, cuneate at the base or rounded into a short, winged petiole, sparsely relland· . denticulnte, nnely appre~sed-pubescent, hirsute along the Yeins, the leaves of the innerOreSCellf'e slightly reduced; nowe-rs few: calyx tube 15 to 19 em. long, 2 IDm. thic)t, f'tildels pHose; sepals 50 to 60 Inm.
CORNACEAE
APIACEAE
OLEACEAE,
GENTIANACF.AE,
APOCYNACEAE
DICHONDRACEAE
POT.EMONIACEAE
34;Illous, little gianduillr: Internodes long; flax leaves. divaricate, acute, villolls; pedicels tender, 12 to 30 mm. lobes high, densely glandular-villous, tbe llnenr-subulate about as long as the tube; corolla tube only Slightly larger than the calyx;. corolla lobes cuneate-oblanceolate, 13 to 14 mm. broad, broadly rounded at apex; the fruit is not seen. Karilaunidium foliOBum Wooton So: Standley. high; flows wltb Yel'y numerouB, dense. these rather thick, hirsute nnd JlUberulent; lcu\'es obm'ute to obJnllceo-lute or broadly oblong, ¥ very numerous especially about the Inflorescence. dull, sharp in bus, sessile, fiat, glnounlur all. hlspid on upper surface; flowers very numerous, in terminnl 01' nxlll:ary elm,lers, sessile Ol' nearly so; ash 5 or G mm. long, of Jlnear Jobes conrf\.eJy hirsute; corolla about 7 mm. long, purplish, the tube very short much exceeded by the calyx, the lobes broad aud rounded; seeds~ ,'ery uumerous, minute, o\'oitl, thin. It is more closely allied, perhaps, to Marilallllidium hiR1)idum, bnt it, too, is more abundant.
In belog perennial It does not seem to be closely related to any of the perennial species found elsewhere. !. b.aceUa bombycina Wooton & Sbmdley. sp. Nov.
ED RETIACEAE
BORAGINACEAE
Our plant is also related to O. Rydb .• but ditl'ere from that species in much the same way as from O. Verbena imbricata Wooton & Standley, sp. high, with numerous stringy, herbaceous stems trom the crown of a stent. woody root, sparsely hispid throughout; Leay€S wedge-shaped - oval in outline, 3 cm. long or less, 3-lobed. and pinnate toothed or lobed, exuding below into a short petiole; flowers 1n crowdell, broken spikes similar to those of 1'. bracteosa but more crowded and [he bracts shorter; br;.Ikter lanceolate, 5 to 10 mm. long; calyx barely 3 lim. long, shorter than the bracts; nuts as in V. This will possibly be n hybrid hetween r. bracteoRU and some erect species, but this seems illllll·ubnible. since no ~l)ecies are found ill the general region which would probably bybridize with.
MENTHACEAE
Perennial herb with sCl'cral brancblog. 4·nngled indistinctly, recumbent or spreading stems 40 to 50 em. the whole plant snbrous with short, thick. whitlsb balrs, th~ most abundant in 6tems; ]en\'is slightly elongate, narrowed into a short tail, dentate-toothed with a few coarse teeth 00 each side, nCllte, the bracts mostly on the petlole veins~ and the ends of the lens; flowers. In some of them. bmcts narrowly linear; ash campanulante. lobes narrowly Innceolate, sessile in flower, accrescent and persistent. This plant is thinner. less pubescent and with shorter bracts. and has narrower hilar lobes. and more I'eticulnte nuts than the only other species of the genus, T. The leaves also are Rnd narrower.
III fruit e'certainly exceed1np: tbe capsule; corolla almost white, bluish, rarely exceeding .the sepnls; capsules crumble, 3 rooms.
BIGNONIACEAE
495413, collected from the Mogollon Mountains on the West Fork of the Rio Gila, Socorro County. Ascending, or diverging and curving upwards at the tip, enclosed by very small, linear lines; SepAs 3 mm. In New Mexico it is known only from the Dona Ana Mountains, where the col.
Ida-ns (Tecoma stans L.), but is distinguished by its 10w stature, narrow lenfiets with sharp and prominent teeth, and the narrower and longer bracts.
RUBIAOEAE
CAPRIFOUACEAE
CICRORIACEAJ;,
The proposed species is never more than a very 8IIIaJ1 shrub, often not more than 60 em. 176 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. lent, all lying flat on the ground, sessile, or on short, broadly winged petioles:. high, glabrous, the bracts linear-lanceolate, pale yellow green, the few outer mucb reduced; petals deep yellow; aehenes dark brown, ~lnbrous. scareely discoid at the ~umwtt. The species represented is a very distlucous old one by its enUre, glaucous lea,.es which are reflected on the ground instead of upright as in most of our species.
It stands out among related species by its large heads and very long, extremely narrow leaves.
CARDUACEAE
1ll Beveral Series, nente, cUllescent; peduncles yery sbort densely wbite-youS; rays numerous, pale yellow, about 0 mm. 1'hls Related to C. [ulcrGta Greene. Ihibernient, angular, dense lcafy; leaves erect or appressed, unequal or oblong-linear, 15 mm. long or less, acuminate acuminate, acuminate. In a dense, gray mass; linear leaves. long, glnbrous, expanded at the base, ,·ery' ltumerous; corrybes with few cylindrical heads 6 to 7 mm. high; brncts acute to sudden ncumlns to or obtuse, smootb, stramlneous; flowers ususlly 5;.
In diameter, on long, thin, massive peduncles; brncts nearly equal, linear, acute, hirsute; rays numerous, pn le Imrplish, very lliU'l'OW, 4 to 5 mm. tall; acbeneB. glabroU1~, stramineons, pappus. WOOTON AND STANDLEY-NEW PLANTS FROM NEW MEXICO.. acnte. ti mm, long or less, glabrous-pubescent; rays bright yellow, consplcuoul, obovate-spatulate; 5 mm flange. long, cuneate-obovate, brown. glabrous, narrow. 194 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. lanceolate, acute.. 6 mm, long or less. light green; rays elongated, rather bright yellow, 6 mm. )ong and 3 Dlm. wide or smaller; acbenes striate. glabrous.
