542 CONTKIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBAEIUM. 



2. Mertensia amoena A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 30: 95. 1900. 



Mertensia bakeri alhoena A. Nels. in Coulter, New Man. Rocky Mount. 422. 1909. 



Ty^e locality: Monida, Montana. 



Range: Wyoming to northern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sierra Grande {Standley 6153). Mountains, in the Canadian Zone. 



3. Mertensia ampUfolia Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 165. 1913. 

 Type locality: Glorieta, New Mexico. Type collected by G. R. Vasey, June, 



1881. 

 Range: Known only from type locality, in the Transition Zone. 



4. Mertensia lateriflora Greene, PI. Baker. 3: 18. 1901. 



Mertensia bakeri lateriflora A. Nels. in Coulter, New Man. Rocky Mount. 423. 1909. 



Type locality: Carson, Colorado. 



Range : Mountains of Colorado and northern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Sierra Grande {Standley 6151, 6152). Canadian Zone. 



5. Mertensia fendleri A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 34: 339. 1862. 

 Mertensia lanceolata fendleri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 53. 1874". 



Type locality: Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler (no. 

 625). 



Range: Northern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Chama; Sierra Grande; Sandia Mountains; Santa Fe and Las Vegas 

 mountains; Jemez Mountains. Mountains, in the Transition Zone. 



6. Mertensia cynoglossoides Greene, PI. Baker. 3: 19. 1901. 

 Type locality: "On moist ledges in the Black Cafion," Colorado. 

 Range: Colorado to northern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Chama {Standley 6523). Shaded damp thickets, in the Transition 

 Zone. 



7. Mertensia pratensis Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 550. 1899. 



Tyte locality: Meadow in Santa Fe Canyon, 9 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 

 Type collected by Heller (no. 3641). 



Range: Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Taos Mountains; Santa Fe and Las 

 Vegas mountains; White and Sacramento mountains. Meadows and thickets, in 

 the Transition and Hudsonian zones. 



8. Mertensia grandis Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 165. 1913. 

 Type locality: Hillsboro Peak, Black Range, New Mexico. Type collected by 



Metcalfe (no. 1319). 

 Range: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Hillsboro Peak; MogoUon Mountains. Transition Zone. 



4. LITHOSPERMTJM L. Puccoon. 



Hispid or hirsute perennial herbs with alternate sessile leaves and leafy-bracted 

 spikes or heUcoid cymes of flowers; calyx of 5 narrow sepals united only at the base; 

 corolla salverform or funnelform, the tube mostly longer than the sepals, yellow or 

 greenish, sometimes crested or pubescent in the throat; stamens short, included; 

 nutlets hard and bony, ovoid, smooth and shining, attached by the base to the nearly 

 flat receptacle. 



