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COULTER AND ROSE 



Resembling E. comosum^ but more branching, much less rigid, with 

 palmate ly divided stem leaves, and carpels covered with minute branch- 

 ing spicules. 



Eryngium sparganophyllum Hemsl. in Hook. Icon. IV. 6 : pL 2508. 

 1897. Fig. 4. 



E. lo)igifolium Gray, PL Wright. 2 : 65. 1853, not Cav. 



Stem erect, tall, twice or thrice dichotomous branching above, leaf- 

 less except a few small bract-like toothed leaves at the ramifications, 

 glabrous throughout ; basal leaves undivided, very narrow, almost 



linear, acute, 9 to 12 dm. long, 

 soft and spongy, unarmed ex- 

 cept a very few very small bris- 

 tles, strongly involute when dry ; 

 heads few, oblong-ovoid, 1 2 to 

 24 mm. long, distinctly pedun- 

 culate ; involucre and involucels 

 of ovate-lanceolate, spinose-acu- 

 minate but scarcely rigid bracts; 

 calyx - teeth ovate, apiculate, 

 widely spreading in fruit ; carpels 

 oblong, without the calyx-teeth 

 4 mm. long, longitudinally sub- 

 triangular, clothed at the angles 

 with large and spongy scales and 

 between the angles with smaller 

 ones ; styles divaricate, exceeding, 

 the persistent calyx-teeth ; oil- 

 tubes small, solitary in the inter- 

 vals, 2 on commissural side. 



New Mexico : Las Playas 



Springs, near the Sierra de 



las Animas, Wright 1 103, 



in 1 85 1. 



Although recorded at present 



only from New Mexico, this 



species will very probably be 



found in Northern Mexico. 



Fig. 4. Eryngium sparganophyllum. 



The following species from recent collections have been determined 

 by Mr. Hemsley. 



Eryngium beecheyanum Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 294. 

 1840. 



Colima : Palmer 62, July 1897. 



Jalisco : in the Sierra Madre west of Bolanos, Rose 2975, 3739> 

 September 16, 1897. 



