546 CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Range: Colorado to Arizona and western Texas. 



New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Tunitcha Mountains; Willard; Pajarito Park; 

 Belen; Horse Camp; Bernal; Pecos; Santa Fe; Mangas Springs; Mimbres River; 

 Mogollon Mountains; Carrizalillo Mountains; Animas Valley; San Luis Mountains; 

 Organ Mountains. Dry plains and hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 



6. Oreocarya suffruticosa (Torr.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 57. 1887. 



Myosotis suffruticosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 225. 1827. 



Eritricliium jamesii Torr. in Marcy, Expl. Red Riv. 262. 1854. 



Krynitzhia jamesii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 277. 1884. 



Type locality: "Barren desert along the Platte." 



Range: Wyoming and South Dakota to Arizona and western Texas. 



New Mexico : Round Mountain ; Carrizozo; Nara Visa; south of Melrose. Plains and 

 low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



11. CRYPT ANTHE Lehm. 



Low, branched, rough-liispid or canescent annuals or perennials with naiTow leaves 

 and small flowers in terminal spikes or racemes; calyx closely embracing the fruit 

 and deciduous with it; corolla white, salverform or funnelform; nutlets 4 or by abor- 

 tion fewer, smooth or tuberculate, attached laterally almost to the apex, the margins 

 sometimes acute or even winged. 



KEY to the species. 



Nutlets wing-margined 1. C. ptcrocarya. 



Nutlets not winged. 



Nutlets smooth, shining; stems simple or branched at the base. 

 Leaves narrowly linear; plants tall, usually 20 cm. or more, 



simple at the base 2. C. fendleri. 



Leaves mostly spatulate or oblanceolate; plants low, sel- 

 dom more than 10 cm. high, branched from the 



base 3. C. pattersonii. 



Nutlets not smooth; stems branched from the base. 



Racemes permanently leafy-bracted throughout 4. C ramosa. 



Racemes not bracted except sometimes at the base. 



Nutlets dissimilar; calyx 5 mm. long; lower leaves 



narrowly spatulate 5. C. a-assisepala. 



Nutlets alike; calyx smaller, less than 4 mm. long; all 

 leaves linear. 

 Calyx lobes linear-filiform; plants stout, strongly 



liispid, leafy 6. C. angustifolia. 



Calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate ; plants very slender, 



slightly hispid, not very leafy 7. C. pusilla. 



1, Cryptanthe pterocarya (Torr.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 120. 1887. 

 Erilrichium pterocaryum Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 142. 1859. 

 Krynitzhia pterocarya A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 276. 1885. 

 Type locality: "Near El Paso." 



Range: Washington to California and western Texas. 



New Mexico: Organ Mountains; mountains west of San Antonio. Dry hills and 

 plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. Cryptanthe fendleri (A. Gray) Greene, Pittonia 1: 120. 1887. 

 Krynitzhia fendleri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 268. 1885. 



Type locality: "New Mexico." Type collected by Fendler in 1847, probably 

 near Santa Fe. 



