154 LBAFLETS. 
TRIFOLIUM NEUROPHYLLUM. Perennial, the scattered stems 
from horizontal rootstocks, 5 to 10 inches high, erect or decum- 
bent, canescently villous, usually with a solitary peduncled 
inflorescence: leaflets of lowest leaves obovate to oblong, 3 to 
# inch long, these passing to such as are 14 inches and linear 
and spinescently acute, all very prominently transverse-venulose 
and doubly spinulose-denticulate, both faces more or less loosely 
villous especially along the midvein: head at first flowering 
broader than high, at length 1 inch long and the flowers deflexed : 
calyx with 5 equal slenderly subulate teeth of twice the length 
of the turbinate tube, the whole villous with long appressed 
hairs: corolla twice the length of the calyx, deep red-purple. 
Mogollon Mountains, New Mexico, 17 Aug., 1903, at 8, 500 
feet, n. 532. Of the group of T. Zongipes. 
MALVASTRUM DIGITATUM. Evidently rather tall, the flower- 
ing branches a foot long, these and all green parts of the plant 
somewhat canescent with stellate hairs: leaves small, digitately 
or somewhat pedately divided into about 5 linear-oblong seg- 
ments, these mostly entire, abruptly acutish : ends of branches 
loosely racemose, the flowers on very short pedicels: corolla 
scarlet, A inch wide or more: teeth of broad depressed fruiting 
calyx subulate-triangular ` carpels densely stellate-tomentose. 
Kingston, New Mexico, June, 1904, O. B. Metcalfe, n. 941. 
Atasites and Thyrsanthema 
In examining and naminga collection of choice plants from 
New Mexico that came to my work table more than a year since, 
I found a new member of the genus Chaptalia, us I would have 
called it, and as after mature consideration I did afterwards 
call it. 
I knew that, as if upon the authority of the Kew Index and 
of Otto Kuntze, one or more American botanists had formally 
deposed Chaptalia and had put the name ` Zhyrsanthema in its 
place. Real authority upon any such matter does not exist; but 
