WOOTOlSr AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 493 



Ne*w Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. High mountain meadows, in 

 the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 

 The type of P. angusti/olia helenae came from the Las Vegas Mountains. 



2. Primula parryi A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 34: 257. 1862. 

 Type locality: Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 



Range: Colorado to Nevada and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. Bogs in the mountains, in the 

 Hudsonian and Arctic-Alpine zones. 



This is one of our most beautiful native plants, with its many-flowered clusters of 

 large bright reddish purple flowers. It grows in wet soil near the snow banks and in 

 bogs lower down. 



3. Primula ellisiae Pollard & Cockerell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 178. 1902. 

 Type locality: Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by Miss Char- 

 lotte C. Ellis (no. 3). 



Range: High mountain meadows in the Sandia and ^^^^.ite mountains of New 

 Mexico, in the Hudsonian Zone. 



4. Primula rusbyi Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 122. 1881. 

 Primula serra Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: .310. 1898. 



Type locality: On rich moist slopes near the summits of the ^logollon Mountains, 

 New Mexico. Type collected by Rusby (no. 252). 

 Range: Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 

 New Mexico: BlackRange; Mogollon Mountains. Canadian and Hudsonian zones. 



6. ANDROSACE L. 



Small annuals with a rosette of basal leaves and scapose umbels of very small white 

 flowers, sometimes tinged with pink; calyx 5-lobed, persistent; corolla short-salverform 

 or fuunelform, the tube varying in length, the limb 5-lobed; stamens 5, distinct, 

 included; capsule short, 5-valved, with many seeds. 



KEY to the species. 



Bracts of the involucre ovate or oblong. 



Calyx lobes triangular, acute 1. A. occidentalis. 



Calyx lobes broadly oblong to ovate, obtuse 2. A. platysepala. 



Bracts of the involucre lanceolate to subulate. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx. 



Peduncles 10 to 20 cm. high, much longer than the as- 

 cending or erect pedicels 3. A. pinetorum. 



Peduncles 3 cm. high or less, often equaled or exceeded 



by the spreading pedicels 4. A. suhumhellata. 



Corolla shorter than the calyx. 



Plants abundantly glandular 5. A. glandulosa. 



Plants not glandular. 



Pedicels and calyx lobes glabrous or nearly so. . .„ . 6. A. diffusa. 

 Pedicels and calyx lobes puberulent. 



Calyx longer than the mature capsule, the lobes 



spreading, equaling the tube 7. A. suhulifera. 



Calyx shorter than the mature capsule, the lobes 



erect, shorter than the tube 8. A. puberulenta. 



1. Androsace occidentalis Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 137. 1814. 



Type locality: "On the banks of the Missouri." 



Range: Montana and Manitoba to California, New Mexico, and Missouri. 



New Mexico: Chama; Tierra Amarilla; Organ Mountains. Open slopes, in the 

 Upper Sonoran Zone. 



