﻿258 Wootox : New Plants from New Mexico 



of pine and Douglas spruce with a sprinkling of oaks and a veiy 

 interesting herbaceous flora.- 



Of the whole time in the field nearly one month was spent in 

 and about Mesilla, about two weeks in the Organ Mountains, 

 nearly one week at the White Sands and the remainder at various 

 places in the White Mountains from Tularosa, at the southwestern 

 base of the range, to the Mescalero Indian Agency, Ruidoso 

 Postoffice, Gilmore's Ranch on Eagle Creek, and finally to the top 

 of Sierra Blanca Peak. 



The result of the trip was the collection of numerous interest- 

 ing and not a few rare plants, while the following are some of the 

 new species discovered : 



Lepidium Eastwoodiae. 



Perennial with ligneous base from which arise one to several 

 erect stems 6-10 dm. high, which branch corymbosely at the top; 

 branches terminated by many-flowered racemes : basal and lower 

 stem leaves 3-5 cm. long, pinnately divided into oblong acute seg- 

 ments which are entire or few-toothed, upper cauline leaves narrowly 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire or occasionally with a few lobe-like 

 teeth, 2-6 cm. long and 2-8 mm. broad, not revolute, all leaves 

 thin, dark green and glabrous : rachis and pedicels pulverulent ; 

 pedicels in fruit 5-7 mm. long, spreading, about 2 mm. apart on 

 the rachis ; flowers bright white, crowded in a rounded cluster at 

 the top of the raceme : sepals elliptic, 1 mm. long, greenish white, 

 glabrous, deciduous before the petals : petals elliptic, 3 mm. long, 

 claw 1 mm. long : stamens tetradynamous : pod elliptic-ovate, 

 emarginate, tipped by the style which is scarcely longer than the 



emargi nation. 



Described from plants collected at the Mescalero Agency in 

 the White Mountains, Lincoln County, July 26, at an altitude of 

 6300 feet. * No. £^r &}.$. 



I became acquainted with this plant in the fall of 1 890 when I 

 "Mected it at the Organ Mountains. I have named it in honor of 



M 

 A. 



it was probably distinct from L. alyssoidcs Gray. 



to the fact that 



This plant is most nearly related to L. alj whs, from which it 



*The altitudes her 

 error of 150 feet or less. 



