[Vol. 8 
196 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
New Mexico: collected in or near the Lincoln National For- 
est, 1903, Plummer (U. S. Nat. Herb., TYPE); White Mountain 
Peak, alt. 9600 feet, July 6, 1895, Wooton (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
L. lata, although known by very few collections, may well 
stand as a distinct step between the glabrous and stellate podded 
species of this group. The sparsely pubescent pods distinguish 
it from L. pinetorum, while the broad stem-leaves and the im- 
perfect rosette separate it from L. rectipes. In the type speci- 
men the terminal stem is greatly shortened and bears pods 
nearly to the base. This intermediate step between the species 
that show no inhibition of the terminal bud and those forming 
a perfeet rosette is most interesting. This character is shared 
likewise by L. pinetorum. 
32. L. rectipes Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
16: 127. 1913; Wooton & Standley, : 
Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 19:217. 1915. 
L. montana Rydb. Fl. Colo. 155. 
1906, in part. 
Perennial, densely stellate through- 
out, stellae many-rayed, rays branched, 
distinct or somewhat coherent, gran- 
ular; stems decumbent, 1-4 dm. long, 
usually simple; terminal bud remain- 
ing undeveloped; radical leaves from 
narrowly oblanceolate to ovate, entire 
or repandly dentate, 2-5 cm. long, nar- 
rowed to a slender petiole; cauline 
leaves linear to narrowly oblanceo- 
22205 c3 Tha MM M Tes late, usually quite entire, 1-3 cm. 
long; petals yellow, narrowly ob- 
lanceolate, about 7 mm. long; filaments linear; fruiting inflores- 
cence frequently showing a tendency to remain crowded near 
the summit of the stem; pedicels in age usually sigmoid, 8-10 
mm, long; pods horizontal to erect, sessile, sparsely stellate- 
pubescent, globose or slightly elongated, 3-5 mm. in diameter; 
styles 3-5 mm. long; septum nerved, areolae scarcely tortuous; 
ovules 3-6 in each cell, funiculi attached to septum for about 
one-half their lengths; seeds flattened, neither winged nor mar- 
gined. 
