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branching, leafy and floriferous almost throughout: leaves 
broadly oblanceolate and elliptic-lanceolate, petiolate, stri- 
gose-hispid and with a more dense fine closely appressed 
pubescence; the’ branches and calyx more hispid with 
spreading bristly hairs: racemes few, solitary or geminate, 
crowded, bracteate, the narrow-lanceolate bracts surpassing 
the fruiting calyxes: sepals lance-ovate, broad and short for 
this genus, not greatly surpassing the nutlets, these erect, 
ovate, sharply and somewhat sinuately rugose on the back, 
this cireumscribed by a narrow margin, the ventral face 
pitted. 
Collected on the Mancos River sage plains in southern 
Colorado, by Messrs. Baker, Earle and Tracy, 8 July, 1898, 
and distributed under n. 827. Species notable on account 
of its broad short calyx and strongly bracted inflorescence ; 
and the nutlets are much more roughened than in other 
members of the genus. 
OREOCARYA LUTESCENS. Stems 6 to 10 inches high, erect 
and simple, one from each of the many branches of the 
decumbent and partly subterranean caudex; the whole herb- 
age densely silvery-strigulose, the inflorescence with also a 
yellowish hirsute pubescence: lowest leaves narrowly ob- 
lanceolate, those scattered on the flowering stem more 
oblong-lanceolate: flowers in a short dense subcapitate 
thyrsus: calyx-lobes elongated, narrowly linear, all but 
their tips concealed by the dense yellowish hirsute hairi- 
ness: corolla 4 inch long, light-yellow, salverform, the tube 
well exserted from the calyx. 
Common on hills about Aztec, New Mexico, 25 April, 
1899, C. F. Baker. 
In naming and defining the following species of LAPPULA, 
several of which are of what may be called the cupulate 
group, I make no attempt to continue in use Gray's varietal 
name cupulatum, for that was made to include, as one variety 
