﻿306 Wooton : New Plants from New Mexico 



than the longest sepals, crisped, sometimes emarginate to retuse, 

 with a pair of glands at the base : stamens about the length of the 

 petals ; filaments stout, appendicular teeth mere rounded projec- 

 tions at the base of the anthers, hardly noticeable : ovary ellipsoidal, 

 constricted above and below, with a subsessile umbilicate stigma 

 1.4 mm. in diameter. 



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B. Fninontii is correctly characterized in Syn. Fl. 1. pt. 1. 69, 

 as having its leaflets ovate to oblong, and the terminal one not 

 over an inch long while the filaments are noticeably appendiculate. 

 In B. lucmatocarpa the flowers are smaller, the appendages to the 

 filaments hardly noticeable, the terminal leaflet is longer, and all 

 leaflets are narrower. 



Our plant may be B. Nevimi Gray, but with the short descrip- 

 tion in Syn. Fl. and only a single specimen without flowers or fruit 

 (collected by Dr. Franceschi) at my command it is impossible to 

 be certain. The above mentioned specimen has thinner and larger 

 leaflets, with more numerous and weaker teeth, and is with the 

 type from Los Angeles Co., Calif., while the range of our species, 

 as shown by the specimens above referred to seems restricted to 

 the mountains of New Mexico and Arixnm 



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* Fallugia paradoxa (Don) Endlicher, var. acuminata. 



Differing from the typical (Mexican) plant by having mu 

 more dense pubescence on the leaves and stems and sepals havin 

 but one acuminate to subcarinate cuspidate tip, while the type is 

 described and figured as tricuspidate. Collected on the mesa near 

 Las Cruces, July 1, alt. 4100 ft., no. 65. 



Dr. Torrey figured the varietal form in Emory's Recon. PL : 

 and all material which I have seen that has been collected in Ne* 

 Mexico and Arizona belongs here. Two specimens from south- 

 western Texas, in this herbarium, agree with Don's description a 

 figure of the Mexican plant. 



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< Sphaeralcea lobata. 

 Perennial, several erect branching stems from the suftrutescent 

 base, 1 — 1-5 m. high or even higher in favorable locations; whole 

 plant scurfy with a close stellate pubescence which is easily rubbed 

 from the stems : leaves triangular-lanceolate in outline, 6-10 cm- 

 long, 2-4 cm. wide, even the uppermost leaves 3-lobed, the basal 



