﻿262 Wootox : New Plants from New Mexico 



be separated by its larger size, larger leaves which are sharply 

 toothed and not at all pinnatif d, and by the much larger flowers, 



and M. nuda (Pursh) T. & G., which has smaller, more finely 



toothed leaves and still larger flowers. 



COXAXTHUS (?) CARXOSUS. 



Perennial root ; stems several and much branched forming a 

 rounded mass 3-4 dm. high, fleshy (shriveling much on drying) 

 canescent with matted more or less appressed stiff white hairs ; leaves 

 linear, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, fleshy and so strongly revolute 

 as to appear terete, obtuse, strongly hispid ; whole plant of a peculiar 

 yellowish green color net shown in the dried material : inflorescence 

 cymose, pedicels 2-3 mm. long, each flower subtended by a linear 

 leaf-like bract : sepals linear, obtuse, 7-10 mm. long, hispid, little 

 united at the base, persistent : corolla ochroleucus, tubular, slightly 

 exceeding the sepals, constricted at the throat, pubescent ; limb of 

 five strongly reflexed oval repand segments, 1-2 mm. longer, 

 throat not personate, glabrous : stamens 5, alternate with corolla 

 lobes, filaments inserted at slightly different heights on the tube, 

 each decurrent into two wing-like margins at the base, which are 

 not free at the tips as in PJiacdia ; anthers ovate, included : styles 

 two, free their entire length, peristent, spreading, villous at the 

 base; stigmas capitate; ovary two-celled by the intrusion of the pla- 

 centa which is thickened and pseudo-central, but breaks away w" 1 

 the two valves ; disk not very prominent : pod oblong-ovate, pubes- 

 cent ; seeds numerous (about 50) horizontal, irregular from crowd- 

 ing, brown, reticulate pitted under high power. 



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Collected on the White Sands July 17. Altit 



No. 164. 



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with which, however, it will hardly be confused. As to whether 

 it should be called Conanthus or Marilaunidium I am not at present 

 able to decide, having nothing but a description of the former genus 

 at hand. 



Verbena perennis. 



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Suffrutescent perennial, 3-4 dm. high, with numerous erect 

 ascending striate-angled stems : leaves linear, the lowermost occa- 

 sionally pinnately few-lobed, 1-2.5 c m. long, 2-3 mm. wide, erect 

 or ascending, entire, margins revolute ; leaves and stems sparse*) 

 covered with short sharp stiff upwardly-pointing hairs : spike* 

 terminating the stems and branches, loosely many-flowered; 

 flowers small, 7-8 mm. long, sessile, each subtended by an ovate 



