178 Pollard and CocJterett New Plants from New Mexico. 



A Primula and a violet are here described from the Las 

 Vegas Range, the former from the Hudsonian zone, the latter 

 from the Canadian zone. 



Viola WiJmattae. 



Acaulescent, low (5-7 cm. high at flowering), tufted, the scape barely 

 exceeding the foliage; leaves practically glabrous, cordate in general 

 outline, all palmately cleft and lobed with numerous divisions; stipules 

 lanceolate, scarious; scapes bibracteale at about the middle; flowers deep 

 violet, 2 cm. broad; sepals lanceolate, slightly scarious-margined; petals 

 narrowly oblong, well bearded : fruit not observed. 



Type No. 404,924, in the United States National Herbarium, collected 

 in Sapello Canon, Beulah, New Mexico (altitude about 8000 feet), by 

 Mrs. Wilmatte P. Cockerell, for whom it is named. 



The species is of interest as being the only representative of the pal- 

 matae occurring in the Southwest. It is related to V. cognata Greene 

 much as V. palmata is related to F. papilionacea of the Eastern States. 

 From the compestrine F. pedatifida and F. Bernardi it may be dis 

 tinguished by the color of the flowers, the much smaller, narrowly 

 oblong leaves, and the remarkably uniform cut of the latter. In this 

 connection it is worthy of note that Mrs. Cockerell has collected F. 

 pedatifida further up the same canon. 



Primula Ellisiae 



Plant about 1 dm. high, from a stout vertical caudex; leaves minutely 

 scabrous on both surfaces, oblong-spatulale in outline, tapering to scar 

 ious-margined petioles, the upper half of the blade irregularly and 

 sharply serrulate with salient teeth, the apex obtuse or acutish; scape 

 barely surpassing the leaves, bearing a dense umbel of rather large 

 flowers; calyx-teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube, the whole calyx 

 densely farinose, but tending to become glabrate with age; corolla tube 

 twice the length of the calyx; limb of the corolla f cm. in diameter, 

 lavender-purple with a yellow eye, the lobes truncate and retuse. 



Type No. 404,914 in the United States National Herbarium, collected 

 by Miss C. Ellis in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. 



This beautiful species is allied to P. Rusbyi Greene, the type of which 

 was collected by Dr. Rusby in the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico 

 in 1881. It differs in having much larger flowers and a conspicuously 

 farinose calyx; the leaves are also shorter-petioled, more spatulate in 

 outline, and more distinctly serrulate on the margins. In the size of its 

 flowers it even approaches P. Parryi Gray, of the Rocky Mountain region, 

 while the white, farinose calyx resembles that of P. farinosa. 



