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New Mexico: Winsors Ranch; Mogollon Creek; Eagle Peak. Transition to Arctic- 

 All >im' Zone. 



Our plants are larger than typical alpinum and occur at rather low levels, but they 

 seem to belong here rather than with any other species. 



4. Epilobium fendleri Hausskn. Monogr. Epilob. 261. 1884. 



Type locality: New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler (no. 217, in part). 

 Range: New Mexico. 



Wc have seen no collections besides the original one, but Doctor Trelease reports a 

 few others. 



5. Epilobium novomexicanum Hausskn. Monogr. Epilob. 2G0. 1884. 



Type locality: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler (no. 217, 

 in part). 



Range: New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Farmington; Santa Fe; Taos; Upper Pecos River; Trinchera Pass; 

 Sandia Mountains; Mangas Springs; Mogollon Mountains; Guadalupe Canyon; Organ 

 Mountains; White Mountains; Tunitcha Mountains; Chaina; Carrizo Mountains. 

 Mountains, in the Transition Zone. 



5. ZATJSCHNERIA Presl. 



Ascending suffrutescent plant about 40 cm. high, with large bright red flowers some- 

 what resembling those of the cultivated Fuchsias, but erect rather than pendent; 

 hypanthium elongated, narrowly funnelform above the ovary; tube bearing 8 email 

 scales within near the base; petals 4, obcordate; stamens 8, in two series, unequally 

 inserted; capsules narrowly fusiform, many-seeded; seeds comose. 



1. Zauschneria arizonica Davidson, Bull. South. Calif. Acad. 1: 4. 1902. 

 Type locality: Chase Creek, Metcalf, Arizona. 

 Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Bear Mountains; San Luis Mountains. 



6. GAYOPHYTUM Juss. 



Slender annuals 30 to 40 cm. high, with linear entire leaves and with very small 

 axillary flowers near the ends of the branches; hypanthiuni tube not prolonged beyond 

 the ovary; capsules narrowly oblong, 5 to 8 mm. long; seeds not comose. 



key to the species. 



Capsules not exceeding the stipes, usually shorter; petals about 



1 mm. long 1. G. ramosissimum. 



Capsules about twice as long as the stipes; petals 1.5 to 2.5 mm. 



long 2. G. intermedium. 



1. Gayophytum ramosissimum Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 513. 1840. 

 Type locality: "Rocky Mountains." 



Range: Washington and Montana to California and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: North of Ramah; Tierra Amarilla; Dulce. Open slopes, in the 

 Transition Zone. 



2. Gayophytum intermedium Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 569. 1904. 

 Ty'pe locality: Ouray, Colorado. 



Range: Washington and Montana to California and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama. Open fields in the mountains, in 

 the Transition Zone. 



