﻿Wootox : A new Southwestern Rose 153 



base, white woolly within, persistent and connivent in fruit, gener- 

 ally laciniately 2-3-lobed, lobes slender, broadened at apex, en- 

 tire or serrulate, glandular along the margin ; petals broadly ob- 

 ovate, 2.5-3 cm - long, 2-2.5 cm - broad, truncate, outer margin 

 repand ; stamens numerous, 5 mm. or less long ; filaments slen- 

 der, glabrous ; anthers versatile, elliptical, with cordate-reniform 

 base and emarginate or retuse apex, dehiscent by marginal slits, 

 introrse ; pistils many, 5 mm. long, covered with stout fuscous 

 hairs ; ovary short-stipitate, stipe attached at one side of median 

 line ; style rather stout ; stigma capitate, oblique ; fruit irregularly 

 spheroidal, spiny, 1— 1 . 5 cm. in diameter, reddish brown; achenes 

 numerous, oblong or elliptic cylindrical, brown, glabrous. 



First collected in flower near the Cueva in the Organ Moun- 



Mexico, April 



at an 



altitude of about 5500 feet. Collected again at the same place 

 with immature but dried up fruit July 10, 1897 (no. 126), and in 

 the White Mountains, Lincoln County, July 22, 1897 (no. 193), 

 two miles west of the Mescalero Agency at an altitude of about 

 6000 feet. A single specimen collected in August, 1897, on the 

 Fresnal in the Sacramento Mountains, N. M., at an altitude of 

 something over 6000 feet was kindly given to me by Miss M. C. 

 Eaton, of Roswell, New Mexico, who told me that it was very 

 abundant where she had found it, often forming large patches acres 

 in extent and producing a beautiful appearance. 



There is some considerable variation in the specimens collected 

 at the different localities, those from the higher altitudes being 

 more vigorous (generally 10-12 dm. high, with larger leaves), 

 more glandular, more spiny and less pubescent. The description 

 above applies to the plant first collected except in the fruit. 

 Specimens with ripe fruit from this locality I have not seen, but I 

 have here described the fruit of White Mountain plants. 



The Organ Mountain specimens are closely lepidote on all the 

 branches of the year and these trichomes, which are not usually 

 spiny, persist on branches that are two years old. The leaves are 

 as described, finely pubescent and not at all glandular, and the 

 leaflets perfectly triangular. Specimens from the White Mountains 

 show all grades of stellate scaliness from closely so on the branches 

 of the year, to only slightly so immediately below the flowering 

 peduncles. Old stems are rarely lepidote and all are much more 



