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or hoary appearance ; leaf-blades broadly cordate-ovate in outline, 

 simple or 3-lobed, obtuse, coarsely crenulate throughout, small, 

 15 mm. long and 16 mm, wide or less, covered with a rather 

 dense, whitish, stellate pubescence on both sides, of medium thick- 

 ness ; petioles slender, 22 mm- long or less, usually longer than 

 the blades; inflorescence axillary, or fascicled near the ends of 

 the branches, rather open; flowers on pedicels 16 mm. long or 

 less, each subtended by 2 or 3 filiform bracts, which are about one 

 half as long as the calyx; corolla about 14 mm. long, salmon- 

 pink ; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, almost 

 twice as long as the tube, the calyx about one half as long as the 

 corolla and somewhat longer than the fruit; fruit about 7 mm. 

 high and 6 mm. broad, composed of about 10 carpels which are 

 not at all cuspidate, densely pubescent on their outer surfaces and 

 conspicuously pitted on their inner ones, i-seeded; the seeds very 

 sparingly and minutely stellate-pubescent. 



Nearest ^. laxa but differing in its smaller, entire or less 



divided, longer-petioled, cordate or subcordate leaves, shorter 



pedicels, and less attenuate sepals. Type collected at the Martin 



and Sloan Ranch, Grant Co., New Mexico, Aug. 13, 1902, 



Wootofi. 



Sphaeralcea pumila sp. nov. 



Perennial from a slender ligneous root; stems slender, much 

 branched, 1 5-25 cm. high, with scattered stellate pubescence 

 throughout, the pubescence giving the stem a scaly and scurfy 

 appearance ; leaf-blades 2 cm. or less in length, thick, 3-parted to 

 the base, the lobes often again divided and strongly pinnatifid ; 

 lobes rather obtuse, rather densely soft stellate-pubescent on both 

 surfaces; petioles stout, 10 mm. long or less ; inflorescence axillary, 

 few-flowered ; flowers on short, stout pedicels ; corolla about 

 10-12 mm. long ; calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate, attenuate, 

 twice as long as the tube, one half as long as the corolla and ex- 

 ceeding the fruit, densely pubescent ; fruit about 5 mm. high and 

 7 mm. wide, composed of about 10 carpels whose outer surfaces 

 are finely pubescent and the inner ones strongly pitted near the 

 base ; carpels shortly and inconspicuously mucronate ; seeds i or 2 

 in each carpel, sparingly pubescent or almost glabrous. 



Type collected at the Diamond A wells in the Silver City 



Draw, Grant Co., New Mexico, July i, 1906, Wooton ; the 



plant was collected also on dry hillsides on Bear Mt. near Silver 



City, Sept. 30, 1903, Metcalfe, Probably nearest S. siniidaiiSy but 



distinguished by its smaller, thick, pinnatifid leaves. 



