^17 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



a great mass of scattered observations upon this subject. We occasion- 

 ally need some one with sufficient patience to look over whole 

 libraries of scientific books and especially periodicals and cull out and 

 put together in compact form all that pertains to some one subject. It 

 saves all the rest of us a great deal of time, besides giving informa- 

 tion that would either escape us or be contained in books we could 

 not easily reach. Mr. James has done just this work, and what is al- 

 most as important, has carefully referred us to all the sources of 

 his information. 



New Plants of New Mexico and Arizona. -Vicia leuco- 



PHa-:A. — Annual; sparingly villous-hirsute throughout; 2 feel high, 

 chmbingby tendrils; stems wing-angled, sparingly branched, slender; 

 leaflets 6, linear-oblong, entire, mucronate ; sMpules semi-sagittate; 

 peduncles mostly 2-flowered ; calyx teeth subecpial, as long, or the 

 lower a little longer than the tube; corolla 4 lines long, cream-color, 

 the vexillum purple-veined ; style very villous at the apex ; legumes 

 pubescent, 8-seeded. 



Along streams in the higher mountains of south-western New 

 Mexico, flowering in July and August. Not at all common, and but 

 few specimens obtained. Very distinct from all our other species by 

 its pubescence and the color of the flowers ; but the latter in fading 

 change to purple. 



Phaseolus parvulus. — Stems solitary from a small, round, deep- 

 seated tuber, slender, erect, 3-6 inches high, neither branched nor 

 twining; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; leaflets an inch long, 

 linear-lanceolate, mucronate, entire, or the lateral each with a more 

 or less distinct lobe on the outer margin at the base ; peduncles longer 

 than the leaves, mostly i-flowered; upper lip of the calyx entire, 

 acute, the teeth of the lower longer, lanceolate ; corolla ^ of an inch 

 long and narrow, deep violet ; the linear legume nearly straight, more 

 than an inch long, comj^ressed, 8-io-seeded ; seeds short-reniiorm, 

 smooth, flecked with purple. 



Abundant in deep woods of Piniis ponderosa, in the Pinos Altos 

 Mountains, New Mexico, flowering in August. A diminutive, but 

 with its large, violet corollas, most elegant species. The long pedun- 

 cles are not rarely 2-flowered, bearing one at the end and the other an 

 inch below it. The tuber is no larger than an ordinary hazel-nut, and 

 never produces more than the one stem. 



PoLEMONiuM FLAVUM. — Stem 2-3 feet high, simple or corym- 

 bosely branched, clothed throughout with ample foliage, and nearly 

 glabrous except at summit ; leaflets from ovate- to oblong-lanceolate ; 

 inflorescence corymbose-cymose ; pedicels rather densely villous, and 

 somewhat viscid-pubescent ; calyx cleft below the middle, the lobes 

 triangular-lanceolate; corolla an inch long, campanulate-funnelform, 

 yellow, with tawny red outside, tube very short, lobes rhombic-ovate, 

 tapering to a sharp point and not at all rotate-spreading, their margin 

 lightly undulate or erose; stamens >^-^, styles ^'i-°/i as long as 

 she corolla; seeds many in each cell, scarcely winged. 



Cold northward slopes of the highest Pinos Altos Mountains, New 



