332 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
descriptions of a number of species belonging to Eryngium and other 
genera have been drawn up by me from time to time, and are here 
presented. A few notes regarding rare species are entered and one 
change of name is made. . 
NEW AND RECENT SPECIES OF ERYNGIUM. 
Eryngium crassisquamosum Hemsley, Hook. Ic. 28: pl. 2765. 1903, is based on 
Seeman’s no, 2136, which I have not seen. 
Eryngium globosum Ilemsley, Hook, [c. 28: under pl. 2765. 1903. 
Type collected by KE, W. Nelson near Tepic, Territorio de Tepic, April 9, 1897 
(no, 4174). 
Type specimen in U. 8. National Herbarium (no. 347477). 
Eryngium goldmani Hemsley, Hook. Ic. 27: pl. 2638. 1900. 
Type collected by KE. A. Goldman in the Sierra Madre near Guasarachi, Chihua- 
hua, September 26, 1898 (no. 168). 
Type specimen in U. 8. National Herbarium (no, 335667). 
Eryngium grande Hemsley & Rose, sp. nov. Fiaure 16. 
Tall stout perennial, 1 to 1.5 meters high, growing in clumps; 
stems glabrous, fluted, leafy; basal leaves parallel-nerved, 60 to 
100 cm. long, 2 em. broad, the margin with short stout spinescent 
lobes usually shorter than the breadth of the leaf; inflorescence 
elongated, sometimes 40 cm. or so long, containing many short- 
peduncled heads crowded along the upper part of the stem or 
sometimes the peduncles elongated, the central one sometimes 
20 em, long; mature heads sometimes 4 cm. high; bracts at the 
base of the head numerous, linear, entire, strongly nerved, 
pungent, also decurrent on the peduncle, in one case for the 
= distance of 10 cm.; bractlets pungent, 
longer than the flowers; sepals ovate, 
q nN © acute; styles very long, 3 or 4 times as 
O long as sepals; surface of fruit without 
imbricating scales; cross section of seed 
deeply indented. 
Fig. 16.—Eryngium grande. 
Specimens examined: 
State of Mexico: Nevada de Toluca, J. N. Rose and Jos. H. Painter, October 15, 
1903, altitude 3,100 meters (no. 7938, type) near Salazar, Rose and Painter, 
September 14, 1903 (no. 7031). 
State of Jalisco: Voleano of Colima, M. E. Jones, July 13, 1893 (no. 236). 
Eryngium guatemalense Hemsley, |. ¢. under pi. 2766. 1903. 
First specimen cited, Nelson’s no. 3654 from Hacienda de Chancol, Guatemala, 
at 3,300 meters. 
Specimen in U. 8. National Herbarium (no. 274013). 
Eryngium longispinum Coult. & Rose, Hook. Ic. 28: under pl. 2766. 1903. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on the pedregal in Valley of Mexico (no. 4359). 
Eryngium medium Hemsley, Hook. Ic. 28: pl. 2767.1903. * 
Type collected by KE. W. Nelson near San Julian, Chihuahua, altitude 2,100 to 
2,400 meters, September 7, 1898 (no. 4924). 
Type specimen in U. 8. National Herbarium (no. 330871). 
Eryngium palmeri Hemsley, Hook. Ic. 28: under pl. 2765. 1903. 
Collected by Dr. EK. Palmer at Rio Blanco near Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1887 
(no. 681). 
