CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY. — NEW SERIES, NO. XXXIV. 



Presented by B. L. Robinson, February 13, 1907. Received February 23, 1907. 



I. NEW SPECIES OF SENECIO AND SCHOENOCAULON 



FROM MEXICO. 



By J. M. Gkeenman. 



Schoenocaulon calcicola Greenman, n. sp., bulbis ovoideis 1.5-2 

 cm. diametro ; caudice erecto cylindrato 5-10 cm. longo a reliquis atro- 

 brunneis vel nigrescentibus fibrosis squamarum foliorumque exterio- 

 rum circumdato ; foliis lineari-attenuatis 3-10 dm. longis 2-5 mm. 

 latis 7-13-nerviis utrinque laevibus margins paulo hirtellis ; scapo 

 nudo 5.5-7.5 dm. alto aliquanto flexuoso subancipiti glabro basin 

 versus purpureo ; inflorescentia laxiflora 1-2 dm. longa 8-10 mm. an- 

 thesi diametro ; bracteis parvis late ovatis tenuibus brunnescentibus ; 

 floribus sessilibus vel breviter pedicellatis ; perianthio 6-partito, seg- 

 raentis linearibus 2.5-3 mm. longis acutiusculis saepissime basi 

 bidentatis ; staminibus perianthio longioribus ; capsulis maturis ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis ca. 1 cm. longis glabris reflexis. — Hillsides, Las 

 Sedas, Oaxaca, Mexico, alt. 1830 m., 1 August, 1894, C. G. Pringle, 

 no. 5754 (tjT^e, in hb. Gray) ; calcareous banks. Las Sedas, alt. 1830 m., 

 19 July, 1897, C. G. Pringle, no. 6740 (hb. Gray, hb. Field Mus.). 

 The latter number was distributed as /S*. intermedium Baker, a species 

 from which S. calcicola is readily separated by its reflexed fruit. 



Schoenocaulon caricifolium Greenman, n. comb. Veratrum cari- 

 cifoUum Schlecht. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hal. 8 (1838). Asagraea carici- 

 foVia Kunth, Enum. PI. iv. 666 (1843). Although this species has 

 been treated by several authors as conspecific with Schoenocaulon 

 officinale Gray, yet an examination of some of the original material, 

 collected by Ehrenberg, of which there is now a specimen in the Gray 

 Herbarium, shows very clearly that it can scarcely be regarded as iden- 

 tical with Dr. Gray's species. 8. caricifolium differs from 8. officinale 

 in having narrower leaves, shorter scapes and inflorescence, and rela- 

 tively shorter and distinctly inflated capsules. — Mexico, without defi- 



