216 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



CUCURBITACEAE. 



Cucurbita digitata A. Gray, Smiths. Oontr. Knowl. 5: (iO. 1853. 



"Prairies, in loose, sandy soil, between the copper mines and Conde's ("amp," 

 Wright 1088 in 1851. 



Apparently rare, but. occasionally collected since. 



Echinopepon confusus Rose, Oontr. Nat. Herb. 5: 116. 1897. 

 "Pinos Altos Mountains," September 16, 1890, E. L. Greene. 



Megarrhiza gilensis Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 97. 1881. 



= Mierampelis gilensis (Greene) Britton. 



"In deep sand on the banks of the upper Gila River and its tributaries, climbing 

 high over willows, flowering in February and March," E. L. Greene. 



Sicyos ampelophyllus Wooton & Standley, Hull. Torrey Club 36: 111. 1909. 



"At Kingston, Sierra County," "in cultivated ground," August 5, 1904, 0. B. 

 Metcalfe 1195, altitude 2,030 meters. 



Sicyos glaber Wooton, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 310. 1898. 



"In the Organ Mountains south of San Augustine Ranch," September 1, 1897, 

 E. O. Wooton 606, altitude 1,500 meters. 



The type locality is on the east side of ihe range, but this plant is common through- 

 out the Organs, in the damper parts of the canyons. 



AMBROSIACEAE. 



Franseria tenuifolia A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. 11.4: 80. 1849. 



=Gaertneria tenuifolia (A. Gray) Kuntze. 



"Poni Creek, between Bent's Fort and Santa Fe; also at Santa Fe," July to Octo- 

 ber, 1847, FendlerAWS. 



Bent's Fort was on the Arkansas in Colorado. 



Xanthium commune wootoni C'ockerell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 16: 9. 1903. 



"At Espanola, N. M., and Fas Vegas, N. M.," T. I). A. Cockerell. 



This is but a variant of X. commune, for Professor Cockerell reports that he later 

 found the fruit of the typical form and the fruit of subspecies wootoni on the same plant. 



ASTERACEAE. 



Achillea laxiflor a Pollard & Cockerell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 179. 1902. 

 "In the Sandia Mountains," altitude 2,400 meters, Miss Charlotte Ellis. 



Actinella argentea A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4 : 100. 1849. 

 = Tetraneuris argentea (A. Gray) Greene. 



"Gravelly and stony hills around Santa Fe," April to June, 1847, Fendler 457 . 

 Abundant in the type locality. 



Actinella bigelovii A. Gray, Smiths. Oontr. Knowl. 5: 96. 1853. 

 — Macdougalia bigelovii (A. Gray) Heller. 

 "On mountains near the copper mines," Bigelow. 



Actinella depressa pygmaea Torr. & Gray, in A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 

 100. 1849. 



= Tetraneuris sp. 



"Raton Mountains," April, 1848, A. Gordon. 



The Raton Mountains are on the boundary between Colorado and New Mexico, and 

 this plant may have been collected in either. 



