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corolla deep rose-purple throughout, the lobes obovate, slightly 

 longer than the calyx, the lower half bearded with straight, white 

 hairs, as is also the lower part of the filament ; ovary pubescent ; 

 styles 5 mm. long, recurved, spreading in flower. 



The description is drawn from our no. 2723, collected along 

 Santa Fe Creek, June to July, 1897. It is very plentiful along 

 the stream, but always in dry ground. It has a range of about 

 2000 feet, as it was first collected four miles east of Santa Fe, at 

 an elevation of a little over 7000 feet, but later was seen growing 

 on a slope ten miles up the valley, and at an elevation of almost 

 9000 feet. It was also noticed along the road between Santa Fe 

 and Cafioncito. 



This species was described by Gray as long ago as 1849, but 

 he unfortunately referred it to James' plant, and in doing so ran 

 counter to the good judgment of Engelmann. He says : " Dr. 

 Engelmann has indicated it as a new species, but I am so confident 

 that it is the species noticed and imperfectly characterized by Dr. 

 James that I venture to revive his name, which, unless thus iden- 

 tified, must ever remain appended to the genus as a doubtful spe- 

 cies, since no specimens of it exist in the collection made by him 

 in Long's expedition. " 



Why he was "so confident" that he had James' species in 

 hand is not so apparent when one knows the facts, but the citation 



<; pi to sum J 



p. 3, ex char, et 



loco natali," seems very conclusive to one who is not in possession 

 of the facts. However, our plant is not the same as James' "ex 

 char." and it is very far from "loco natali." James' description 

 reads as follows: "Sub-erect, pubescent, sparingly branched 

 above. Radical leaves reniform, deeply 5-7-cleft. The flower is 

 a little larger than that of G. Robertianum and similarly colored, 

 having whitish lines towards the base of the corolla." 



Although the above description is meagre and unsatisfactory, 

 it indicates a plant of different habit and with a corolla of a differ- 

 ent color. Whatever points of coincidence there may be between 

 the two plants, there certainly is none in the "loco natali." Part 

 of the Long expedition actually did go as far south as New Mexico, 



skirting the eastern base of the 



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not with this party, and did not go further south than Pikes Peak. 



