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reddish stems and thin dark green leaves, and in these respects it resembles several 

 of the nearly related species. The character of the spines and the pubescence are 

 distinctive, however. 



9. Rosahelleri Greene, Leaflets 2: 259. 1912. 



Type locality: Lake Waha, Nez Perces County, Idaho. 



Range : Idaho to New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Coolidge; Las Vegas; Magdalena Mountains. Transition Zone. 



The specimens are referred here doubtfully by Dr. Rydberg. 



10. Rosa neomexicana Cockerell, Ent. News 1901: 41. 1901. 

 Type locality: Cloudcroft, New Mexico. 



Range: Southern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Mesilla; near Mesilla Park; Sapello Creek; Cloudcroft. 



11. Rosa maximiliani Nees in Wied-Neuw. Reis. Nord Amer. 2: 434. 1841. 



Type locality: On the plains along the Missouri River above Fort Pierve, South 

 Dakota. 



Range : Washington and Saskatchewan to Utah and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Chama; Farmington; Winsors Ranch; Las Vegas; Pecos; Joseph; 

 Raton Mountains; White Mountains; Indian Canyon; Animas Mountains; Organ 

 Mountains. Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



12. Rosa pecosensis Cockerell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1904: 110. 1904. 

 Type locality: Near Pecos, New Mexico. Type collected by Cockerell. 

 Range: Known only from the vicinity of the tyj^e locality. 



Just what Rosa 2)raetincta Cockerell ' is, we are unable to determine. It also was 

 described from the vicinity of Pecos. 



2. AGRIMONIA L. Agrimony. 



Herbaceous perennial, 60 to 80 cm. high or less, with interruptedly pinnate 5 or 7- 

 foliolate leaves, and small yellow flowers in elongated slender racemes; hypanthium 

 turbinate, bearing a ring of hooked prickles; petals small; stamens 5 to 12; carpels 

 1 to 3, becoming achenes and inclosed in the persistent hooked hypanthium. 



1. Agrimonia striata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 287. 1803. 



Agriinonia brittoniana Bicknell, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 517. 1896. 



Agrimonia brittoniana ocddentalis Rydb. Colo. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 100: 189. 1906. 



Type locality: "In Canada." 



Range: Quebec and New York to West Virginia, and in the Rocky Mountains. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Johnsons Mesa; Sandia Moun- 

 tains; Chama; Mogollon Mountains; White Mountains. Woods, in the Transition Zone. 



3. OPULASTER Medic. Ninebark. 



A low shrub, 1 meter high or less, with exfoliating bark and white flowers in terminal 

 corymbs; leaves simple, rounded-ovate in outline, 3 to 5-lobed, glabrous or nearly 

 so, doubly incised -serrate; flowers small; hypanthium about 3 mm. broad, stellate- 

 pubescent; petals orbicular, about 3 mm. long; follicles 2 or rarely 3, united to above 

 the middle, densely stellate-pubescent, with spreading beaks. 



1. Opulaster monogynus (Torr.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 2: 949. 1891. 

 Spiraea monogyna Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 194. 1827. 

 Physocarpus monogynus Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 2: 104. 1891. 

 Type locality: "On the Rocky Mountains," Colorado. 

 Range: Wyoming and South Dakota to New Mexico and Texas. 



1 Proc. Acad. Phila. 1904: 110. 1904. 



