520 WooToN AND STANDLEY: ANDROSACE 
margins and near the apex where they are beset with close simple 
pubescence : scapes numerous, simple, erect or ascending, 3.5-7 
cm. long, with short, fine, abundant, branched pubescence : bracts 
oblong, 4-7 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, with short, scattered, simple 
pubescence on lower surfaces and margins, upper surface glabrous: 
pedicels slender, 7-25 mm. long, with pubescence like that of the 
scapes, most abundant near the summits: calyx campanulate, 
rather obtuse at base, 3-5 mm. high, 3-4.5 mm. wide ; tube pale- 
green, almost glabrous, segments broadly oblong to ovate with 
rather acute apices tipped with reddish points, slightly overlapping 
one another at the base, one half longer than the tube, with 
abundant short simple pubescence : corolla white, shorter than the 
calyx, about 2.5 mm. broad, segments oblong, retuse at apex, 
longer than the tube: anthers twice as long as filaments. 
Type no. 1547 collected at Kingston, Sierra county, New 
Mexico, on open hills, March 30, 1905, by O. B. Metcalfe. This — 
species is close to A. occidentalis Pursh, from which it may be dis- 
tinguished by its broader, toothed leaves, and broader bracts. 
There is no mature fruit on the type specimens, but what is taken 
to be the same plant, collected on Bear Mountain near Silver 
City, April 24, 1903, by O. B. Metcalfe (zo. 35, distributed as A. 
diffusa Small, from which it is altogether different) has globose — 
capsules, 3 mm. broad by 3.5 mm. high, one third shorter than 
the calyx, capped by the withered remains of the corolla. 
HERBARIUM OF THE 
New Mexico AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
