BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. X.l Ne w York, December, 1883- [No, 12, 
New Western Plants 
By Edward Lee Greene. 
Draea asprella.— Roughish-pubescent with short stiff hairs, 
which are either simple, or parted above the middle into from two 
to four divaricate branches; stems a span high, from a biennial or 
perennial root, leafless except at base ; petals showy, yellow; pedicels 
■5 inch long, divaricate, bearing sihcles of one-third their length, which 
are ovate-oblong, scarcely compressed, and tipped with a long style. 
Lynx Creek, Northern Arizona, May 31, 1883. H. H. Rusby. 
vvith the habii of D. MogoUonica, Greene {Bot. Gaz., v., 157), but 
very different. The peculiar pubescence covers the leaves, stem and 
pedicels throughout, extending in shorter and simple hairs to the 
long-oval pods. I ani informed by Dr. Gray that this was collected 
near Prescott by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1876, and is his No. 565; 
though his specimens were in flower only, and therefore the species 
was left unnamed and undescribed. 
PoLYGALA RusBYi. — Hoary-pubcscent, 2-6 inches high; stems 
numerous, much branched, spineless; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 
acute or obtuse, one-half inch long, sessile, or nearly so; bracts scari- 
^us; pedicels 2-4 lines long; sepals pubescent and ciliate, the outer 
sightly saccate at the base; wings oblong, flesh-colored, 4-5 lines 
t>ng; lateral petals linear, a little longer than the yellow keel, which 
"as a long, nearly straight beak, a little widened at the apex; young 
capsules broadly obovate, emarginate, nearly smooth; seed not seen. 
Collected near Prescott, Arizona, April 1883, by H. H. Rusby. 
Near P. siibspinosa^ Wats., but more pubescent, wholly spineless, 
and with a different beak. Mr. Watson informs me that it was col- 
lected by Dr, Palmer in 1870 and in 1876, and that it is referred to 
m the original description oi P. subsphwsa as a more pubescent form 
of that plant. v^ 
Cotyledon Rusbyi. — Acaulescent, glabrous ; rosulate leaves 
obovate-oblong, sharply acuminate, i inch long; flowering-branches 
scape-like, 3-6 inches high, leafless, but with some scattered, subulate 
bracts; pedicels slender, 3 lines long; sepals oblong, less than half 
the length of the petals; petals lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 lines long, 
united only near the base, nearly coral-red. 
San Francisco Mountains in South-eastern Arizona; collected by 
the writer in i88o, and also by Mr. H, H. Rusby in 18S1. A small 
species. ^ 
^nothera (chylismia) divaricata.— Rather short and appa- 
