WooTON AND Standi. EY : Plants from New Mexico 107 



Sphaeralcea glabrescens sp, no v. 



Plant 20-35 cm. high, forming a dense cluster of stems from 

 a perennial ligneous root, densely covered with stellate pubescence, 

 giving the whole plant an ashy gray color; leaves small for the 

 genus, crowded on the upper parts of the stems; the blades 1-2 

 cm. long, less than one half as wide, narrowly triangular in out- 

 line with 2 salient teeth or small lobes at the obtuse base, the apex 

 obtuse, margins sinuate and crispate, veins prominent below ; 

 young leaves densely covered on both sides with white stellate 

 hairs, the branches of which are long for the genus and slender; 

 the mature leaves glabrate and light green on the upper surface ; 

 petioles i cm. or less in length ; flowers small, reddish, borne in 

 short terminal clusters ; calyculate bracts hnear, about I mm. 

 long ; calyx 5-7 mm. long, the broadly lanceolate acute segments 

 being slightly longer than the tube, persistent in fruit and partly 

 enclosing the capsule; capsule almost spherical with 10 carpels, 

 each of w^hich contains 2 or 3 ovules and i or 2 seeds and is 

 tipped w^ith a very short mucro. 



Type collected at Providencia Lake about 30 miles west of Las 

 Cruces, New Mexico, July 3, I900,by E. O. Wooton. The 'Take'' 

 is merely a place where flood waters collect and Is an alkaline flat 

 most of the time, with a finely powdered soil. This is one of the 

 few plants which grow near its edges. It is probably most nearly 

 related to 6". hasttdata A. Gray but the connection is not very close. 



Sphaeralcea leiocarpa sp. no v. 



An erect perennial ; stems branched, slender, minutely and 

 sparingly stellate-pubescent throughout, the pubescence denser 

 above; leaf-blades large, thin, 55 mm. long and 40 mm. wide or 

 less, bright green on both sides, with fine, minute, scattered, white, 

 stellate pubescence on both surfaces, truncate at the base, 3-Iobed, 

 the sinuses rather shallow; the terminal lobe oblong, and broad- 

 est near the obtuse or refuse apex, coarsely crenate near the 

 apex but entire below ; the lateral lobes smaller and coarsely 

 crenate ; petioles slender, finely stellate-pubescent, 3 cm. long or 

 less ; inflorescence narrowly subpaniculate, rather dense, the flowers 

 on slender pedicels 10 mm. or less in length, each flower sub- 

 tended by 2 or 3 filiform bracts which are about one third as long 

 as the calyx; lobes of the calyx triangular-ovate, acute, the free 

 portion longer than the tube, finely stellate-pubescent, about one 

 third as long as the corolla and a little shorter than the carpels ; 

 petals about 8 mm. long ; fruit about 5 mm. high and 5 mm. broad ; 

 carpels 10, densely and finely stellate-pubescent on the outer sur- 

 face, I- or 2-seeded, the inner faces smooth near the base and not 



