WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLOEA OF NEW MEXICO. 569 



1. Lycium pallidum Miers, Illustr. S. Amer. PI. 2: 108. 1849-57. 



Type locality: "In Nova Mexico." Type collected by Fendler (no. 670), prob- 

 ably near Santa Fe. 



Range: Utab and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Canizo Mountains; Cedar Hill; Barranca; Zuni Reservation; Thoreau; 

 Tiznitzin; Fort Bayard; Mangaa Springs; Bear Mountain; Dog Spring; Organ Moun- 

 tains; Nogal. Dry hills and plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. Lycium. torreyi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 47. 1862. 

 Type locality: "Texas, on the Rio Grande." 



Range: Western Texas to southern California. 



New Mexico: Black Range; Playas Valley; north of Deming; Las Palomas Hot 

 Springs; Socorro; Mesilla Valley; Organ Mountains. Dry valleys and plains, in the 

 Lower Sonoran Zone. 



The fruit of this and other species is eaten by the native people. The flavor is 

 rather insipid . 



3. Lycium parviflorum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 48. 1862. 

 Type locality: Arizona. 



Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Florida Mountains; White Sands; White Mountains; east of Deming. 

 Dry plains, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 



4. Lycium halimifolium Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 6. 1768. Matrimony vine. 

 Lycium barbarum vulgare Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2: 3. 1811. 



Lycium vulgare Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13 1 : 509. 1852. 



Type locality: China. * 



A native of Europe and Asia, common in cultivation in the United States and 



frequently escaped. It is said to be established in the vicinity of Las Vegas. It is 



cultivated at Raton and in the Mesilla Valley. 



5. QUINCULA Raf. 



Low diffuse scurfy perennial herb with sinuately toothed or lobed leaves and violet 

 flowers in small axillary clusters; calyx campanulate, inflated at maturity, sharply 

 5-angled, reticulated; corolla rotate, pentagonal; seeds few, reniforra, somewhat 

 I! .ih ued, thick-margined, rugose-tuberculafe. 



1. Quincula lobata (Torr.) Raf. Atl. Journ. 145. 1832. 



Physalis lobata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 226. 1827. 



Type locality: "On the Canadian ?" Colorado or New Mexico. 



Range: Kansas and New Mexico to California and Mexico 



New Mexico: Mora; Raton; Roswell; Ruidoso Creek; La Lande; Buchanan; Lincoln. 

 Plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



6. MARGARANTHTJS Schlecht. 



Smooth annuals villi the appearance of Physalis, but with an urceolate corolla 

 more or less constricted and minutely 5-toothed at the throat and with a rather dry 

 fruit. 



KKY TO I II I 



Calyx half as long as the corolla, in fruit about 8 nun. in diameter.. I M. tolanaa us. 

 Calyx fully two-thirds as long as the corolla, in fruit L2 to 15 mm. 



in diameter 2. M. purpura* 



