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Related to M. ciliata (Torr.) Don, but with a larger, differently formed and 
abundantly pubescent calyx. It is a larger plant, too, than most of our western 
Mertensias. It is related also to J/. franciscana Heller, but the corolla and 
calyx are very different. 
Oreocarya urticacea Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Perennial from a woody caudex covered by the bases of the dead leaves; 
stems very stout, about 30 cm. high, hispid and densely canescent, simple up to 
the inflorescence; basal leaves spatulate, rounded at the apex, 7 to 9 cm. long, 
petiolate, green but hirsute and finely canescent; cauline leaves narrowly oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse, attenuate to a winged petiole, very numerous; inflorescence a 
dense, narrow thyrse with numerous linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, strongly 
hispid leaves, its branches densely setose-hispid with yellowish hairs; lateral 
glomerules of the inflorescence on peduncles 10 to 35 mm. long, the flowers in 
very dense clusters; calyx lobes nearly linear, 6 mm. long, densely hispid; 
corolla white, 5 or 6 mm. long, the tube shorter than the calyx; mature fruit 
not seen, 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 306425, collected at Canyoncito, 
Sante Fe County, June 18, 1897, by A. A. and E. Gertrude Heller (no. 3781). 
Altitude 2,160 meters. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Glorieta, June, 1881, Vasey; Sierra Grande, 
alt. 2,200 meters, 1911, Standley GO56. 
The type collection was distributed as O. glomerata (Pursh) Greene, but that 
is a lower, rather less hispid plant with a dense, spike-like inflorescence and 
broader leaves. Our plant is also related to O. perennis (A, Nels.) Rydb., but 
differs from that species in about the same manner as from O. glomerata. 
VERBENACEAE. 
Verbena imbricata Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Erect plant, 35 em. high, with numerous strict, herbaceous stems from the 
crown of a stout, woody root, sparingly hispid throughout; leaves cuneate- 
obovate in outline, 3 em. long or less, pinnately 3-lobed, the middle lobe largest 
and pinnately toothed or lobed, decurrent below into a short petiole; flowers fn 
crowded, bracted spikes resembling those of V. bracteosa but more crowded and 
the bracts shorter; bracts lanceolate, 5 to 10 mm. long; fruiting calyx barely 3 
mm. long; corolla deep blue, about 4 mm. long, shorter than the bracts; nutlets 
as in V. bracteosa. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 562249, collected at’ Farmington, 
August 8, 1904, by E, O. Wooton (no. 2831). 
This may possibly be a hybrid between V. bracteosa and some erect species, 
but this seems improbable, since no species is found in that general region that 
would be likely to hybridize with V. bracteosa to produce such a plant as this. 
MENTHACEAE. 
Agastache cana (Hook.) Wooton & Standley. 
Cedronella cana Hook. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. pl. 4678, 1851. 
Cedronelia cana lanceolata A. Gray, Syn. Fl 21: 462. 1878, in part. 
Brittonastrum lanceolatum Heller, Mublenbergia 1: 4. 1900. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Headwaters of the Pecos, August, 1905, Bartlett; 
hills near Santa Rita, October 9, 1904, Metcalfe; Hillsboro, alt. 1,650 meters, 
1904, Jfetcaife 1015; Organ Mountains, August, 1881, Vasey; Dona Ana Moun- 
tains, October 28, 1906, Wooton & Standley; Organ Mountains, alt. 1,660 meters, 
