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Mertensia refracta, n.sp.—Obscurely appressed pubescent 
throughout, the minute hairs without pustulate base: stems 
tufted, rather stout, more or less branched above, 2-4 dm. high (in- 
cluding the ample inflorescence), rather densely and -equably 
leafy except below where the leaves are smaller or wanting: leaves 
sessile or nearly so, oblong to ovate, obtuse or subacute, 3-5 cm. 
long, 8-14 mm. broad: pedicels slender, 6-10 mm. long, early 
reflexed and most of them ultimately refracted: calyx cleft to 
the base; its lobes linear, softly hirsute, 2-3 mm. long: corolla 
blue, t cm. long; the campanulate throat and limb as long as the 
broad tube: stamens inserted in the throat; the filaments scarcely 
as broad as the anthers: crests inconspicuous: style almost as 
long as the corolla. ; 
The most striking character of this species is the refracting of the pedicels, 
much as in certain species of Lappula, a character I do not recall as occurring 
in other species of Mertensia. Insome species some of the flowers are at Jength 
reflexed, and in most of them the inflorescence as a whole is more or less droop- 
ing, but i in this one the individual pedicels are sharply refracted at their very 
base. 
Secured by A. A. Grirrin, Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado, at gooo feet, 
July 28, 1912, no. 139. 
Oreocarya paradoxa, n. sp.—Matted cespitose perennial; the 
caudex freely branched, the branches short, crowded, covered 
With dead leaf-bases: stems short, 8-15 cm. long, more or less 
curved and ascending from the decumbent base, hirsute-hispid: 
leaves numerous, spatulate-oblanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, includ- 
ing the narrowed petiole-like base, subhispid with more or less 
appressed white hairs: inflorescence at first subcapitate, becoming 
a short thyrsoid spike: calyx cleft to the base, its lobes linear- 
lanceolate, 4-5mm. long: corolla tube yellow, slender, nearly 
three times as long as the sepals; the yellowish or nearly white 
corolla lobes obovate, fully one-third as long as the tube; the crests 
very prominent: anthers just below the crests: nutlets ovoid, 
muriculate, attached by the middle to the ovoid gynobase, the 
free portion of the style twice as long as the mature nutlets. 
The yellow-flowered species of Oreocarya are not numerous, and the 
long-flowered ones are even scarcer. This strongly tufted-matted form with 
its long clear-yellow tube is distinctive. Secured by E. P. WALKER on dry 
“gyp” hills, in Paradox Valley, Colorado, no. gt, June 19, 1912. 
