BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. Vlll.l New York, November, 1881. [No. I I 



it8. New Species of Plants, chiefly New Mexican- 



By Edward Lee Greene. 



Talinum confertiflorum. — Root perennial, thick, fleshy and 

 more or less branching; stems several, branching and leafy; leaves 

 fleshy, terete or nearly so, an inch or more long ; peduncles leafless, 

 slender, 3-5 inches high, each bearing a crowded cyme at the summit; 

 bracts subulate; sepals ovate, with thickened, purple tips; corollas 

 small, apparently white ; stamens 5 ; capsules triquetrous ; seeds 

 small. 



Collected in the Pinos Altos Mountains in 1880, by the writer in 

 too advanced a state, and distributed under the name '' T, parvifior- 

 vm^ Nutt," Dr. Gray afterwards informed me, from Kew., that it 

 was not that species, but probably a new one; and now I have a spec- 

 imen from Mr. Rusby, collected this year in the Mogollon Moun- 

 tains, showing the five-stamened flowers. 



The species, except as regards the number of stamens, and the 

 compact cymes, is much like the Eastern T' teretifolium, ^ 



Saxifraga fragarioides. — Cespitose, the short, much-branched 

 caudex thick, woody and clothed with the dark brown, persistent, 

 petioles of preceding seasons ; leaves an inch or more long, cuneate- 

 obovate, entire below the middle, above coarsely and deeply toothed, 

 the under surface pale, the upper dark green, with a few scattered 

 hairs along the five prominent veins, some short, minute, glandular 

 ones on both surfaces, and the margins sparingly ciliolate ; petioles 

 I inch long, dilated at base; scape rigid, a span high, glandular -hir- 

 sute, naked, or with one or more small leaves below; cymes subtend- 

 ed by small, lanceolate bracts, and arranged in a narrowly thyrsiform 

 panicle ; flowers 3 lines broad ; petals spatulate, greenish, a third 

 longer than the ovate-lanceolate, spreading sepals, persistent ; carpels 

 distinct nearly to the base. 



High mountains west of Mt. Shasta, California, August, i88r. 

 One of several most charming novelties brought in from that inter- 

 esting, but not very new region, by that most zealous and careful 

 collector, C. G. Pringle, Esq. 



The leaves of this fine saxifrage are a most precise imitation of 

 the leaflets of the common wild strawberry, both as regards their 

 form, color, texture, and even size. 



RiBES (Ribesia) Mogolloxicum.— Glabrous and sparingly glan- ^ 

 dular, 6-10 feet high ; leaves 1-3 inches wide, 5-lobed ; the lobes 

 triangular, doubly serrate ; petioles one inch long ; racemes few- 

 flowered, subcapitate, on erect peduncles which surpass the petioles; 

 bracts rhombic-ovate, the lowest somewhat spatulate, their margins 

 glandular ; flowers small ; ovaries clothed with stalked glands ; calyx- 

 tube very short ; sepals ovate-oblong, campanulate-spreading, green- 

 ish and marked with dark green or purplish veins ; petals white, spa- 

 tulate, very small ; berry smooth, black, edible. 



