WOOTON AND StANDLEY I PlANTS FROM NeW MeXICO 1 1 1 



Sicyos ampelophyllus sp. nov. 



Stems slender and weak, several feet long, sparingly and finely 

 scabrate throughout or almost glabrous in parts ; leaf-blades reni- 

 form-orbicular, 14 cm. long and 13 cm. wide or smaller, 3-lobed, 

 the sinuses between the lobes narrow but rather deep, the lateral 

 lobes sometimes again 2-lobed; the lobes sinuate-dentate, with 



mucronate teeth, obtuse, or the terminal one sometimes acutish 



and prominently mucronate ; the basal sinus large and almost cir- 

 cular ; the leaves scabrous on both surfaces ; petioles as long as 

 the blades or longer, scabrate or with a few scattered, soft, whitish 

 hairs ; pistillate flowers 5-10, 1.5-2 mm. broad, with ovate, obtuse 

 corolla lobes, sessile at the end of a peduncle which is about 8 mm. 

 long ; staminate flowers in small, few-flowered racemes, on pedicels 

 as long as the flower or longer, about 4 mm. in diameter, with 

 rather obtuse petals ; tendrils mostly 4-parted ; fruit ovoid to ellip- 

 soidal, about 5 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, the thin pericarp closely 

 investing the smooth seed, which has 2 conspicuous scars at the 

 base, the fruit conspicuously echinate with straw-colored, retrorsely 

 barbed spines, which are about 3 mm. long. 



Altho 



Mexi 



pannfli 



It is readily distinguished by the greater size and more robust 

 habit of the plant and the larger leaves, which are different in 

 shape-. Type collected at Kingston, Sierra Co., New Mexico, in 

 cultivated ground, Aug. 5, 1904, Metcalfe Tigs > altitude about 

 2030 m. Also collected on ' Sapello Creek, southeast of the Mo- 

 gollon Mts., Aug. 22, 1900, and near Gila, July 12, 1900, Wootati. 



Phacelia similis sp. nov. 



A diffuse annual with several ascending stems rising from a 

 cluster of spreading basal leaves ; stems 20-30 cm. high, sparingly 

 leafy and terminating in compound helicoid cymes having 2-6 

 branches, the whole plant covered with a fine appressed pu- 

 bescence with scattered spreading stiff hairs on the stems and 

 midribs, somewhat viscid, especially on the inflorescence ; leaves 

 bipinnately parted, narrowly oblong in outline, 5-15 cm. long, l- 

 3 cm. wide, the segments oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 2-5 mm. long ; 

 the uppermost cauline leaves small, once pinnate with simple or 

 toothed segments ; flowers blue (?) (purplish in dried material), 

 crowded, of moderate size for the genus, 6-8 mm. long and as 

 broad ; calyx of 5 equal spatulate sepals united for a short dis- 

 tance at the base, half as long as the corolla ; corolla campanulate- 

 funnelform, Hmb spreading, its segments broadly elh'ptic to rotund, 



