30 Nelson — Two New .Plants from New 3fexico. 



A most distinct species, differing from N. capitata Chois. in its larger 

 and subhastate leaves; in its calyx which has 6 emarginate lobes in 

 contrast with 5 entire ones; in having 6 or 8 stamens which are united 

 with the tube, in contrast with 5 nearly free ones; also in color and prob- 

 ably in duration. 



The type (No. 59) was collected by Mrs. Wilmatte P. Cockerell (in 

 whose honor the species is named) near Roswell, New Mexico, August, 

 1902. Mrs. Cockerell is an industrious student of the New Mexican flora 

 and has found many interesting forms. It has also been collected near 

 the same place by F. S. and Esther S. Earle, in 1900, No. 324. Type in 

 Rocky Mountain Herbarium. 



Cryptanthe dlcarpa, n. sp. 



Stems few to several from a very slender taproot, 8-15 cm. high, 

 slender, moderately pubescent with rather long white softly-hispid 

 widely -spreading hairs; leaves linear or very narrowly oblanceolate, 

 2-4 cm. long; spikes at length loosely-flowered; calyx-lobes distinct to 

 the base, narrowly linear, almost reduced to the distinctly thickened 

 midrib, the nutlets showing between them, about 3 mm. long in fruit; 

 corolla white, its tube slightly dilated near the middle where the anthers 

 are situated; nutlets grayish-white, only two maturing, these dissimilar, 

 one larger more persistent and scabrous-roughened under a lens, the 

 other minutely roughened-papillose. 



In a general way related to C. crassisepala and its allies but slender- 

 stemmed and quite distinct in its fruit characters. The type is No. 30, 

 collected by T. D. A. Cockerell, at Mesilla Park, N. M. (Middle Sonoran 

 Zone), and is deposited in the Rocky Mountain Herbarium. 



