SOME SOUTHWESTERN MULBERRIES. 117 



i 



I 





lower face everywhere rough with hispidulous pubescence, 

 this more pronounced on all veins and veinlets, but plentiful 

 over whole area : fruit not seen. 



The type specimens of this elegant grape-leaved mulberry 

 bush are in U. S. Herb., as collected in tl)e Dona Aiia 

 Mountains, New Mexico, 28 Aug., 1906, by Wooton and 

 Standley. 



MoRUS G01.DMAX11. Low slender shrub, in habit like the 

 last, but smaller and with different foliage : growing twigs 

 only obscurely and minutely puberulent, the red-brown 

 branches glabrous ; leaves all small, the largest only 1^ by 

 1/i inches, the smallest less than 1 inch long, the lobed form 

 inclining to be 5-lobed, its terminal part being more or less 

 distinctly parted into 3 secondary lobes, the sinuses between 

 this compound terminal lobe and the basal part of the leaf 

 being not oval or in any way rounded, but rather openly 

 V-shaped, the uncut leaves smaller and fewer, subcordate- 

 ovate ; texture hard, almost subcoriaceous, color light but 

 dull green, the marginal indentation rather coarse and uneven, 

 also more dentate than serrate, veins of the upper face sunken 

 but hirtellous, the area rather coarsely and harshly muricate- 

 ^ scabrous, lower face villous-hirsute at base along the veins, 



the veinlets sparsely hispidulous, the area in general much 

 more minutely, sparsely and .sharply muriculate : fruit not 



seen. 



Specimens in U. S. Herb, from an altitude of 4500 feet in 

 the Little Florida Mountains of the extreme southwestern 

 part of New Mexico, by E. A. Goldman, 5 Sept., 1908. 



$ 



MoRUS BETULiFOUA. Stout and compact shrub with rigid 

 and tortuous gray branches : growing leafy shoots rather 

 slender, of a reddish brown and lightly villous-tomentose : 

 fruiting branches with no lobed leaves, all being exactly 

 cordate-ovate, 2 to ZH inches long, iX to 1/4 inches wide 

 toward the base, coarsely subserrate-dentate and with an abrupt 

 short acumination, those of vigorous young sterile shoots 



