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stems appearing rather hoary ; leaf-blades 2^ mm. long and 25 

 mm. wide or less, 3-lobed, the sinuses deep, the lobes obtuse and 

 coarsely crenate all along the margins, dull yellowish-green on 

 both surfaces, with abundant, rather coarse, spreading, conspicu- 

 ous, stellate pubescence on both sides ; petioles slender, 20 mm. 

 long or less ; inflorescence axillary below and forming a very loose 

 open panicle above ; flowers on very slender pedicels, which are 

 55 mm. long or less, subtended by 2 or 3 short, filiform bracts; 

 lobes of the calyx lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, attenuate, about 

 3 times as long as the tube, very densely stellate-pubescent, the 

 entire calyx about 10 mm. long; corolla 14 mm. long or less, 

 salmon-pink, the petals rounded or retuse; fruit about 6 mm. 

 high and as wide, about one half as long as the calyx, composed 

 of 10 or rarely more carpels, which are 2- or mostly 3-ovuIed, and 

 end above in a very short mucro ; carpels densely pubescent on 



their outer faces. 



ipartita 



both in its lax inflorescence, long-pedicelled flowers, and long and 

 attenuate sepals. Type collected at Frisco, Socorro Zo., New 

 Mexico, July 25, iqoo, Wooton ; the plant was collected also at 



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Sphaeralcea simulans sp. nov. 



Plant low, diffuse, green, 1-2 dm. high, with numerous slender 

 stems from a perennial root, densely scurfy throughout with yellow 

 stellate scales ; leaves 2-4 cm. long, triangular in outline, con- 

 spicuously 3-lobed, cuneate at base, obtuse, veins prominent, 

 margins coarsely few-toothed ; flowers axillary on short (2-5 mm. 

 long) pedicels, becoming almost racemose at the ends of the stems, 

 bright orange-scarlet, i cm. long or less ; calyx-lobes narrowly 

 • lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the tube, enclosing the spheroidal 

 capsule; fruit consisting of 10-12 i-seeded carpels which are 

 strongly reticulated on the inner surfaces near the base, tubercu- 

 late-roughened on the back, short-mucronate. 



Type collected on the plains both east and west of Deming, 

 New Mexico, June 14 and 13, 1906, Wooton. Common on the 

 plains of southwestern New Mexico. As is indicated by the name, 

 it resembles Malvastrum coccineum in habit and general appear- 



Sphncralc 



Sphaeralcea ribifolia sp. nov. 



Stems erect,, slender, sparingly branched, with dense white 

 stellate pubescence throughout, the whole plant having a grayish 



