250 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLrumE 21 
fruit turbinate, 7 mm. long, thin-walled, deeply lobed, truncate at the summit and puberulent, 
glabrous below. 
TyPE LOCALITY: Near Beaver City, southern Utah, in dry ravines among junipers. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, and eastern Nevada. 
16. Abronia Bigelovii Heimerl, Smithson. Misc. Coll. 53: 197. 1908. 
Cespitose perennial from a thick woody branched caudex; leaves all basal, densely fascicu- 
late upon the caudices, the blades linear-oblong, linear, or linear-oblanceolate, about 3.5 cm. 
long, 3.5-4 mm. wide, obtuse at the apex, entire, green on both sides, glabrous, or minutely 
puberulent when young, gradually narrowed into a petiole equaling or longer than the blade; 
peduncles scapelike, 5-7 cm. long, slender, puberulent; heads many-flowered, the bracts oval 
or broadly oval-ovate, 8-10 mm. long, 3.5—-7 mm. wide, abruptly acute or short-acuminate, 
scarious, minutely puberulent; perianth densely puberulent; anthocarp 6~7 mm. long, ob- 
pyramidal, lobed, thin, truncate above and pointed, densely puberulent. 
TYPE Locality: Near Galisteo, New Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb, 12: pl. 35. 
V. Fragrantes. Perennials with branched, erect or procumbent stems. Leaf-blades 
variable in outline, often very unequal at the base. Bracts usually large, broad, and conspicu- 
ous. Perianth white, or very rarely purplish-red. Fruits usually deeply lobed, the lobes 
mostly compressed and winglike, or the outer fruits of each head often elobate. 
17. Abronia salsa Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 684. 1902. 
Abronia fallax Heimerl; Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 684. 1902. 
Abronia fragrans pterocarpa M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 11: 3. 1903. 
Perennial, from a somewhat woody elongate root; stems few or numerous, 2-5 dm. long, 
erect or decumbent, stout, whitish or stramineous, short-villous or puberulent below or some- 
times glabrate, viscid-villous above with short hairs, the internodes elongate; petioles slender, 
1-4 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or short-villous; leaf-blades oblong, oval, elliptic-oblong, or 
oblong-ovate, rarely deltcid-ovate or suborbicular, sometimes lanceolate, 2-5.5 cm. long, 
0.7-3 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the base, broadly rounded to acute at the apex, entire 
or subsinuate, concolorous or paler beneath, densely viscid-puberulent; peduncles slender or 
stout, 1.5-8 cm. long, viscid-villous; bracts broadly oval or rounded-ovate, 10-16 mm. long, 
5-12 mm. wide, acute, white, scarious, viscid-villous or puberulent; flowers numerous, the 
perianth 18-25 mm. long, the tube very slender, villous, greenish, the limb 5-8 mm. broad, 
white; fruit turbinate, 5~7 mm. long, coriaceous, whitish-stramineous, short-villous or puberu- 
lent, usually deeply 5-lobed, the lobes compressed and winglike, finely reticulate-veined, 
truncate at the summit and flattened; seed narrowly obovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, dark-brown, 
lustrous. 
Type Locauity: Salt Lake City, Utah. 
DISTRIBUTION: In sandy soil, Utah. 
InLustRatTions: Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 12: f. 61, 62. 
18. Abronia fragrans Nutt.; Hook. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 5: 261. 
1853. 
Abronia speciosa Bucki. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862: 7. 1862. 
Abronia nudata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 683. 1902. 
Abronia robusta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 324. 1909. 
Abronia Fendleri Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 324. 1909. 
Perennial, from a thick elongate woody root; stems few or numerous, 2-10 dm. long, 
erect or procumbent, stout, usually much branched, whitish or greenish-stramineous, viscid- 
puberulent or villous below, or rarely glabrate, densely viscid-villous above with short or long 
hairs, the internodes short or elongate; petioles slender or stout, 1-5.5 cm. long, viscid-villous; 
leaf-blades variable in outline, mostly ovate-oblong or narrowly deltoid-ovate, sometimes 
oblong, deltoid, elliptic, oval, or lanceolate, 2.5-9 cm. long, 0.8-5.5 cm. wide, truncate to 
