New Western Plants 
By ALICE EAstwoop 
|, NEW SPECIES FROM COLORADO AND UTAH 
' Castilleia scabrida 
Stems low, 5-10 cm. high, from a*perennial root, leafy, flower- 
ing from near the base or half way to the top. Entire plant can- 
€scent with a stiff scabrous and hispid pubescence: lower leaves 
linear-oblong, obtuse, 1~2 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, the midrib 
prominent ; upper leaves 3-5-cleft, with spreading divisions, the 
lower part broad, 3-ribbed; bracts similar to the upper leaves, 
colored: calyx obliquely gibbous at base, 2.5 cm. long, about 
equally cleft, hispid especially on the nerves ; divisions linear, 6-7 
mm. long : corolla with half the galea extending beyond the calyx 
lobes: lower lip protuberant with acuminate divisions: stamens 
and style exserted, the latter surpassing the former : capsule ovate- 
acuminate, 15 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, distending the calyx as it 
ripens: seeds brown, shining as if varnished, linear-oblong to 
clavate, scrobiculate. 
This was collected at Grand Junction by Mrs. H. C. Long in 
the spring of 1890. The type is in the herbarium of the Califor- 
nia Academy of Sciences. 
v Lappula gracilenta 
Stems erect, 4-6 dm. in height, branching from the base or 
half way up with slender, spreading branches, hispid throughout 
with white hairs which are horizontally spreading on the stems and 
Margins of the leaves, appressed on the surfaces of the leaves and 
calyx, wanting on the corolla: leaves crowded at base, spatulate 
to oblanceolate, narrowed to a margined petiole of about the same 
length as the blade, together 2-8 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, the 
earliest leaves shorter and broader in proportion: cauline leaves 
lanceolate, sessile, 6 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, becoming smaller as 
they ascend, entire or obscurely denticulate along the upper margin : 
internodes not quite equalling the lower leaves, surpassing the upper 
Ones: bracts generally alternating with the flowers, becoming 
Smaller and linear on the upper part of the racemes: pedicels 
Slender, recurved in fruit : divisions of the calyx extending almost 
to the base, linear, obtuse, 2-3 mm. long, spreading under the nut- 
lets : corolla blue, with white folds in the throat : divisions obovate, 
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