164 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
EHRETIACEAE. 
Eddya gossypina Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial from a somewhat woody base; stems stout, prostrate, 20 cm. long, 
densely canescent; leaves spatulate, thick and fleshy, 8 mm. long or less, on 
slender petioles, obtuse, the blades hispid and short-pubescent, the petioles 
densely canescent; floral leaves crowded, densely white-villous; flowers few, 
axillary, sessile or nearly so; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, white-villous, 3 mm. 
long; corolla purplish, 10 mim. long. with a spreading limb, the rounded lobes 
with nearly entire margins; stamens unequally inserted, unequal, the bases of 
the filaments much enlarged and filling the tube of the corolla; style 2-parted at 
the top, glabrous; mature fruit not seen. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 690234, collected on Tortugas 
Mountain, September 2, 1894, by E. O. Wooton. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Tortugas Mountain, 1911, Standley 6439. 
In general this resembles HF. hispidissima, but has a white, cottony appear- 
ance very different from that species, while the corolla is much larger and the 
stamens are somewhat different. 
BORAGINACEAE. 
Lappula grisea Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Biennial from a short, thick taproot; stems stout, 80 em. high or less, simple 
below, canescent; basal leaves numerous, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 to 
5 cm. long; cauline leaves narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblong, obtuse or 
acute, 25 to 40 mm. long, the upper sessile, the lower attenuate to a broad, 
winged petiole; all densely canescent on both surfaces, the hairs with large, 
white, bulbous bases; inflorescence sparse, with slender, loosely few-flowered, 
erect ‘branches; bracts very small, lanceolate; pedicels 3 to 4 mm. long; sepals 
ovate, obtuse; corolla blue, small, 2.5 mm. long; nutlets small, 2.5 mm. long, 
the prickles as long as the body, free to the base, the back of the nutlets 
papillose. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 562188. collected in James Canyon 
of the Sacramento Mountains, August 6, 1905, by E. O. Wooton. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Tularosa Creek, alt. 2040 meters, July 30, 
1897, Wooton 252. 
Apparently a recognizable species, distinguished from the related L. flori- 
bunda by its grayish appearance, caused chiefly by the enlarged white bases of 
the hairs. The pubescence, too, is more abundant, longer, stiffer, and harsher 
than in any of the related species. 
Lappula hirsuta Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Biennial from a short tap-root; stems stout. erect, a meter high or less, 
coarsely appressed-pubescent, more or less hirsute above, simple up to the in- 
florescence; basal leaves narrowly spatulate, obtuse, long-petiolate, 10 em. long 
or less; cauline leaves narrowly oblanceolate to oblong, 5 to 8 cm. long, acute, 
sessile by a rounded base, or the lower ones attenuate to a winged petiole, 
canescent or appressed-pubescent on both surfaces, glandular, long-ciliate; in- 
florescence with numerous slender, ascending branches, the racemes long and 
distantly flowered; bracts elliptic or lanceolate, small; pedicels 4 to 8 mm. 
long; sepals narrowly oblong. obtuse; corolla deep blue, 8 mm. broad, the lobes 
orbicular, the appendages finely papillose; marginal bristles of the nutlets sepa- 
rate to the base. about equaling the body, this nearly smooth on the back but 
minutely hirtellous. 
