150 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: On gypsum soil on plains 35 miles south 
of Torrance, August 10, 1909, Wooton. 
This species seems to be affiliated with Nuttallia laciniata, but is much smaller 
in every way, and the flowers are pale yellow. The time of opening of the 
flowers is not known. The specimens collected in the morning about 11 o’clock 
were as wide open as those taken about sundown. 
Nuttallia laciniata (Rydb.) Wooton & Standley. 
Touterea laciniata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 565. 1904. 
Nuttallia procera Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial herb, 60 to 100 cm. high, slender, strict, sometimes branching at 
the base; cortex white and papery, smooth except on the young stems; leaves 
small, sessile, oblong, obtuse, 30 to 50 mm, long, about 5 mm. wide, with 5 to 
10 coarse, rounded teeth on each side, very rough with short, stout, white 
barbed hairs; flowers rather small, on slender, terminal peduncles, or the stems 
somewhat corymbosely branched above; sepals narrowly lanceolate, abruptly 
acuminate; petals rather bright yellow, about 1 cm. long, oblanceolate, acute, 
the 5 staminodia narrower and sometimes short-acuminate; outer filaments 
somewhat dilated; capsules oblong-cylindric, 10 to 12 mm. long, 6 or 7 mm. in 
diameter; seeds numerous, disk-shaped, surrounded by a broad wing, white, 
tuberculate. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 516161, collected on the White 
Sands, August 18, 1907, by E. O. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. 
The plant has been collected in the vicinity of the White Sands several times. 
Wooton’s 571, distributed as Mentzelia pumila?, is the same species collected 
on the Sands in 1897. It has also been collected above Tularosa in the White 
Mountains (Wooton 567 in 1897). . 
The species is most nearly related to Nuttallia multiflora, but is of very dif- 
ferent habit, much more slender, and has smaller, less pinnatifid leaves and 
smaller flowers and fruit. 
Nuttallia strictissima Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Fifty to 70 em, high or more; stems simple below, with a few erect branches 
near the top, whitish, scabrous; lower leaves linear or linear-elliptic, acutish, 
scabrous, very shallowly dentate, sessile; uppermost leaves linear or linear- 
lanceolate, reduced and bract-like, crowded, mostly entire, attenuate; calyx 
lobes about 1 em. long, very thick, scabrous with short, stiff, whitish hairs, 
narrowly triangular, attenuate; flowers few; petals 18 to 22 mm. long, linear- 
oblanceolate, very acute, with as many or twice as many petal-like staminodia ; 
stamens numerous, the filaments of the outer ones broad and flattened; cap- 
sules 2 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, cylindric, scabrous. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 496766, collected on the Arroyo 
Ranch, near Roswell, in September, 1903, by David Griffiths (no. 5701). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Twenty miles south of Roswell, alt. 1,080 
meters, August, 1900, Farle 317. 
Related to V. multiflora, but distinguished by its strict habit, narrow petals, 
and the peculiar bract-like upper leaves. 
ONAGRACEAE. 
Anogra amplexicaulis Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Stems stout, reddish, much branched, sparingly hirsute and with a sparse, 
fine, cinereous pubescence; lower leaves short-petioled, the upper clasping by an 
auriculate base, oblong-lanceolate, oblong, or triangular-lanceolate, acute, entire 
or runcinate-toothed near the base, green, puberulent and more or less villous ; 
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