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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



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cordate, others obtuse or acutc at the base. I suspect, therefore, that A. humilig, 

 Cav. and A. pubescens, DC. are not distinct, if the present plant really belongs to 

 either of them. 



CAPRIFOLIACEJE. 



Sambucus glauca, Nutt in Torr. Sf Grai/, Fl. 2. p. 13 ; var. foliolis anguste 



lanceolatis. — Among rocks, on mountains near the copper mines, New Mexico, 

 Oct. ; in fruit. (1110.) — " Stems 6 to 10 feet high." Leaflets 5, or the upper- 

 most 3 (wrongly said to be 3 - 5-pairs in the Flora above cited), about 3 inches 

 long, 6 to 8 lines wide. Benies glaucous. To this probably belongs Fendler's No. 

 286, which was erroneously referred to S. pubens. 



S. Mexicana, Presl in DC. Prodr. 4. p. 323. Around houses at San Elizario 

 on the Rio Grande, June ; in ilower. (1387.) — " Trunk 8 to 12 feet high, 6 inches 

 or more in diameter." The leaflets vary from 5, or even 3, to 7. Hartweg's No. 

 1756 belongs apparently to the same species. 



Stmphoricarpus eotundifolius (sp. nov.): foliis orbiculatis seu ovato-rotundis 

 parvulis ramulisque molliter pubescentibus ; floribus axillaribus solitariis ; bracteolis 

 ovario brcvioribus dentibusque calycis cyathiformis ovatis obtusis glabris; corolla 



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infundibuliformi intus glabra, lobis stamina superantibus. — Sides of mountains 

 around the copper mines, ISTew Mexico ; Aug. (1388.) — Stems 3 or 4 feet high, 

 much branched. Leaves 5 to 9 lines long and 4 to 9 wide, softly and finely pubcscent 

 above, and finely tomentose underneath, entire, or tlie larger often repand ; the 

 petiole a line or less in length. Flowers almost sessile in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Calyx with the ovary a line and a half long, its lobes slightly if at all 

 ciliate. Corolla 3 lines long, tubular-funnelform. Fruit not seen. — The leaves 

 are rounded and more downy than in NuttalPs S. mollis, and the inflorescence as 

 well as the shape of the corolla is entirely difierent. The flowers are more like 

 those of S. glaucescens and S. montanus, but only half as large ; and they, as well 

 as tlie leaves, are larger than in S. microphyllus (as described by Kunth), with 

 which in other particulars its characters do not accord. 



LoxicERA (Caprifolium) dumosa (sp. nov.): foliis ovalibus basi acutis sessilibus 

 subcoriaceis subtus pallidis utrincLue cum ramulis confertis crebre piloso-pubesceiiti- 

 bus, floralibus in discum ellipticura connato-confluentibus ; capitulo simplici arcte 

 sessili ; ovario glaberrimo ; calycis limbo truncato hirsuto. — Banks of a torrent bc- 

 tween Rock Creek and the Limpio, June; in fruit. (1389.) — A much-branched, 

 slightly twining shrub, 3-5 feet high. Leaves 10 to 18 lines long, mostly obtuse, 

 clothed with a soft spreading pubescence, especially underneath ; only the upper- 

 most pair connate-perfoliate. Berries globose, 2 lines or more in diameter. Pubes- 

 cence not at all glandular or ^iscid. — Altliough the corolla is unknown, I do not 

 hesitate to characterize this as a new species. 



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RUBIACE^. 



LLiuM microphyllum, Grat/, Pl Wright. p. 80. Bed of the Limpio, June 

 also in ra\ines and on stony hills, on the Organ Mountains, and at the copper mines 



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