Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 677 



flowers, the smaller fruit with broader, flattened prickles. In L. 

 occideiitalis the prickles are only slightly broadened below, not 

 flattened, and strongly grooved on the inside. 



Arizona: Tucson, Apr. 20, 1894, Tourney (type, in herb, N. 



Y. Bot Gard.) ; vicinity of Flagstaff, June 16, 1898, MacDougal 

 ; Clifton, Apr,, 1881, Rusby 2S1. 

 Utah : St. George, 1877, Palmer j^g. 



Eremocarya muricata sp. nov- 



Annual ; stem slender, branched throughout with ascending 

 branches, strigose ; leaves linear, 2-5 mm. long, hispidulous, the 

 hairs with pustulate bases ; racemes short and dense, usually less 

 than I cm. long; bracts oblong, i-2 mm. long; sepals linear, 

 obtuse, 1.5 mm. long, hispidulous on the margins and midvein ; 

 corolla white, I mm. long; limb scarcely 0.5 nim. wide; nutlets 

 lanceolate in outhne, long-acuminate, dull, finely muricate. 



This species is somewhat intermediate between Ereuiocai 

 rantha and E, lepida. It resembles the former most ii\ habit 



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E. lep 



but differs in the more ascending branches, the shorter leaves.^ 

 and especially in the narrower, muriculate and dull, instead ot 

 smooth and shining, nutlets. The latter resemble much those of 

 E. lepida, but are narrower and more tapering upwards. 

 has much broader leaves and larger flowers. 



Utah: Southern Utah, 1^74, Pany /^^ (type, in herb. Co- 

 lumbia Univ.), 



Arizona : Near Camp Lowell, Apr. 13, 1881, Pringle ; Pres- 

 cott, \^^ly Rusby 74S ; Tucson Mountains, Apr. 12, 1903, Thorn- 

 ber; Plains of Tucson, Apr., \^?>\, Lemmon 20J ; Mesa, near 

 Tucson, May 14, 1883, Pringle - Apr. 25, 1906, Shear 4235; 

 Tucson, Apr. 3, 1894, Tourney. 



Greeneocharis circumscissa (H. & A.) Rydb. comb. nov. 



>s/>crmum{f) ciraimscissiiin H. & A. Bot. Beech. 370. 



1840. 



Pipt 



Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 



240. 1871. 



EritricJmim circtimscissunt A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10 : 58. 



1874. 



Krynitzkia circumscissa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20 : 275. 



1885. 



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