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20 mm. long, terete, acutish, slender; scapes very slender, 10 to 12 cm. high, 
corymbosely branched above; flowers few (3 to 5), all on slender pedicels 
3 to 6 mm. long; bracts lanceolate or triangular, scarious; sepals nearly 
orbicular, 2 mm. long, very thin; petals pinkish, 4 or 5 mm. long; stamens 10; 
capsule nearly spherical, 3.5 mm. high. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 690249, collected on Tortugas Moun- 
tain, August 27, 1894, by E. O. Wooton. Apparently the same is part of 
Wright’s 875 in the National Herbarium. 
Our plant is unlike the related species, such as 7. parviflorum, in the form of 
the sepals and the number of stamens, and in the well-developed pedicels. 
Talinum pulchellum Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Roots stout, dark brown, woody; stems stout and fleshy, 10 cm. high or less, 
simple below, coryimbosely branched above; leaves apparently terete, perhaps 
slightly flattened, 12 to 20 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. in diameter, not narrowed 
at the base, blunt, scattered along the stems; flowers axillary, solitary; pedun- 
cles stout, 2 or 3 mm. long; pedicels slender, 6 to 20 mm. long; sepals elliptic- 
lanceolate, about 7 mm. long, acute, smooth, greenish below, scarious-margined ; 
petals about 15 mm. long, purplish red; stamens about 20. . 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 617671, collected near Queen, 
August 2, 1909, by E. O. Wooton. Altitude about 1,770 meters. 
The proposed species is nearest 7. brevifoliwm, but differs in habit, size of 
flowers, form of sepals, and length of pedicels. The two species form a sec- 
tion very unlike the other members of the genus, 
ALSINACEAE, 
Arenaria mearnsii Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
A slender, diffusely branched perennial; stems reclining at the base, minutely 
cinereous-puberulent; leaves linear or linear-elliptic, bright green, numerous, 
glabrous, somewhat pungently pointed, 8 to 12 mm. long, 2 mm. wide or less; 
flowers numerous, on slender, ascending, almost glabrous pedicels 10 to 15 mm. 
long; sepals lanceolate to lance-ovate, attenuate to long, subulate tips, glabrous, 
bright green with scarious margins, 4 to 5 mm. long; petals 1 or 2 mm, longer 
than the sepals; capsules 1 to 2 mm. shorter than the sepals. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 233375, collected in a canyon of the 
San Luis Mountains on the New Mexico-Mexico boundary, September 11, 1893, 
by Dr. E. A. Mearns (no. 2216). 
Our specimens seem not to agree with any described species of the United 
States or Mexico. They are nearest A. sarosa and A. confusa, but differ from 
both in the narrow, glabrous, more or less pungently pointed leaves and 
sparser pubescence. From the former they also differ in the longer pedicels, 
and from A. confusa they are distinguished by the longer sepals and ascending 
pedicels. 
Drymaria pachyphylla Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Annual;,stems slender, prostrate, glabrous, sparingly branched; basal leaves 
spatulate; cauline leaves ovate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucous, thick, 10 mm. long 
or less, 6 to 8 mm. wide, narrowed at the base into a slender petiole one-half 
as long as the blade or more; flowers solitary on the pedicels, clustered in the 
axils, on rather stout, glabrous pedicels 3 or 4 mm. long; sepals oblong, 3 mm. 
long, glaucous, with thin, scarious, white margins; capsule slightly exceeding 
the sepals. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 830629, collected on the dry plains 
south of the White Sands, August 20, 1897, by E. O. Wooton (no. 405). Alti- 
