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ing a panicle of pedunculate spikes, grayish throughout with a 
rough pubescence of closely appressed hairs and some scattered 
white bristles which are pustulate at base : leaves spatulate-oblan- 
ceolate, tapering to broad petioles which exceed the blade and 
are dilated and clasping at base, together with the blade 1-3 cm. 
long, 2-5 mm. broad, acute, entire but bristly ciliate, appressed- 
hispid on the upper surface, lower surface with bristles as on the 
stem, the midrib forming a ridge through the center: internodes 
1-2 cm. long: spikes peduncled, few-flowered (2-5) ; pedicels 1-3 
mm. long, with or without bractlets, which when present surpass 
the pedicels: calyx shorter than or equalling the tube of the 
corolla, with linear-acuminate divisions 6 mm. long, hispid with 
spreading bristles, the margins whitened by densely appressed 
white hairs : corolla white ; tube 5 mm. long, exceeding the border 
by I mm.; divisions oblong, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, not 
extending to the throat; crests in the throat bisected by a central 
ridge, short and broad: anthers linear-oblong, 1.5 mm. long, in- 
serted about the middle on short broad filaments, the apex about 
on a level with the top of the crests ; no scales or crests at base of 
tube: nutlets ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acutely 
margined except below the scar ; dorsal surface keeled, corrugated- 
rugose with the epidermis pale gray and lucid; scar broadest at 
the middle and with broad bifurcation at base: gynobase mitriform, 
4-angled. 
This peculiar species is distinguished from all others by the 
more slender stems and more contracted inflorescence. Its long 
corolla-tube marks it as distinct from any of the group formerly 
included under O. glomerata. It was collected by the author near 
Moab, in Court House Wash, southeastern Utah, May 25, 1892. 
It grew in red sandy soil. 
Oreocarya Shockleyi 
Stems several from a tufted branching caudex which is densely 
clothed with dry imbricated petioles of former leaves, 1-2 dm. 
high, leafy, striate, not more than 2 mm. in diameter, floriferous 
from the middle, cinereous with downwardly appressed pubescence 
and spreading fine white silky bristles which are 1-2 mm. long: 
leaves on caudex oblanceolate, tapering to a broad petiole which 
is dilated and ciliate at base, strongly ribbed, together with the 
blade 3-6 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, cinereous with fine, white 
appressed pubescence and fine scattered bristles with papillae at 
base which dot the surface ; cauline leaves linear-oblong or nar- 
rowly oblanceolate, sessile or with petioles more than half as broad 
as the blades: spikes consisting of short-peduncled spikelets or 
