﻿Wooton : New Plants from New Mexico 263 



persistent bract 3 mm. long and glabrous above : calyx 4 mm. 



long, tubular, herbaceous ribbed, ribs pubescent, hyaline and 

 glabrous between the ribs, teeth short-triangular, equal, acute : 

 corolla deep blue, tube slightly longer than the calyx, expanded 

 just below the throat, forming a ring in which the almost sessile 

 anthers lie, throat filled with hairs; the limb 5 -parted, bilabiate, 

 lobes elliptical, repand : style short, included, stigma unequally 

 two-lobed, clavate : fruit four cylindric glabrous reticulated brown- 

 ish nutlets, minutely retrorsely scabrous on the commissure, en- 

 closed in the persistent calyx, 5-7 mm. apart on the rachis. 



Found growing in crevices of rocks along the road about two 

 miles west of the Mescalero Agency in the White Mountains, 

 July 21. Altitude 6000 feet No. 187. 



This species is most nearly related to V. canescens H.B.K. 

 var. Neo-Mexicana Gray, but may be easily separated from that 

 variety (?) by the linear, generally simple re volute leaves and the 

 peculiar pubescence. 



MOXARDA STRICTA. 



Aromatic perennial : stems erect, little or not at all branched, 

 quadrangular with rounded angles-, reddish tinged, 5-8 dm. high, 

 standing alone or in clumps arising from creeping underground 

 stems, internodes generally longer than the leaves : leaves opposite 

 on petioles 1 cm. long or less, ovate- to triangular-lanceolate, 

 4-6 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acuminate, a few sharp serrate-dentate 

 teeth along the sides but the acumination entire, base rounded or 

 truncate, not cordate ; whole plant canescent with minute curved 

 hairs, glabrate upon the upper surface of the leaves which is slightly 

 darker green : flowers in a single terminal involucrate head, short 

 pedicelled; bracts of the involucre leaf-like, elliptic-ovate, short- 

 acuminate, rose purple above, 1-2.5 cm. long, floral bracts linear- 

 subulate, hispid on margins: calyx tubular, 13 -ribbed, 7-10 mm. 

 long, limb of five equal subulate teeth 1-2 mm. long, throat 

 densely white or purplish hirsute within, a tuft of stiff spread- 

 ing hairs in each sinus of the limb : corolla bright purple, be- 

 coming bluer with age, strongly bilabiate, upper lip linear, straight, 

 lower lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes broad, repand, middle lobe oblong, 

 entire corolla except the middle lower lobe villous on the outside, 

 upper lip not more so at the tip : stamens two, exserted with pistil 

 from under the upper lip : ovary with 4 rounded lobes, glabrous ; 

 mature fruit not seen. 



Collected on the divide, nine miles northeast of the Mescalero 

 Agency in the White Mts., August 1. Alt. 7000 ft. No. 267. 



