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lanceolate bracts ; calyx deeply five-cleft, the lobes ovate-lanceo- 

 late ; corolla-lobes ovate, concave, thin, veined, very little longer 

 than the calyx ; stamens 20, perigynous, three opposite each calyx- 

 lobe, and one opposite each petal, slightly longer than the corolla'; 

 styles five, distinct ; ovaries woolly. (PL 338.) 



The type is no. 3840, collected in Santa Fe canon, nine miles 

 east of Santa Fe, July 12, 1897, altitude 8000 feet. The speci- 

 mens were taken from bushes which grew some three or four, hun- 

 dred feet up the slope from the stream bed, among basalt rocks, 

 their near neighbors being an occasional pine tree, and scattered 

 bushes of various kinds. The graceful, drooping habit of the pan- 

 icles cannot be well shown in dried specimens. 



The drawing represents a branch one-half natural size ; figure 1, 

 a leaf natural size ; figure 2, a flower magnified four times ; 3, a sta- 

 men magnified 7 times, and 4, a pistil magnified 10 times. 



Rusby's no. 121, collected on " high summits of Mogollon Mts. 

 N. Mex. , Sept. 7, 188 1," and labelled u Spiraea discolor Pursh, var. 

 ariaefolia Wats.," belongs with H. australis. It has also been con- 

 fused with u Spiraea dumosa" but is very unlike that species, the 

 type of which is preserved in the herbarium of Columbia Univer- 



sity. 



H. 



the type of which was collected by Lewis "on the banks of the 

 Kooskoosky," Idaho. 



Geranium atropurplreum. 



Geranium cacspitosum A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II) 4: 25. 

 [849. Not James. 



Perennial; stalks numerous, 10-30 cm. long, matted together, 



procumbent or somewhat ascending, divaricately branched, sharply 

 angled and channeled, retrorsely pubescent : stipules lanceolate or 

 triangular-lanceolate, long-acuminate, the lower and broader ones 

 nearly 1 cm. long ; leaves orbicular in outline, about 4 cm. in 

 diameter, the basal ones five-parted, those of the stem three-parted, 

 the lateral segments of these again deeply lobed, so as to give 

 them the appearance of being five-parted, the segments all incisely 

 lobed: peduncles slender, 10-12 cm. long, two-flowered, the 

 pedicel of the outer flower 2 cm. long, that of the inner flower a 

 third shorter ; sepals 1 cm. long, elliptical-oblong, three-nerved, 

 scarious-margined, tipped with a prominent cusp, pubescent with 

 short, appressed hairs, or sometimes little more than puberulent ; 



