WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OP NEW MEXICO. 621 



4. Ptiloria neomexicana Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 123. 1898. 



Type locality: Mesaa near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Type collected by Wooton 

 (no. 482). 



Range: Western Texaa and southern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Frisco; near White Water; mesa west of Organ Mountains; Gray; 

 Parkers Well. Sandy mesas, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 



6. Ptiloria ramosa Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 453. 1900. 



Type locality: Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. 



Range: Montana and Nebraska to Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains; Pecos; Sierra Grande; Las Vegas Canyon; Sandia 

 Mountains; Silver City; Capitan Mountains. Dry plains and hills, in the Upper 

 Sonoran Zone. 



6. Ptiloria pauciflora (Torr.) Raf. Atl. Joum. 145. 1832. 



Prenanihes f pauciflora Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 210. 1828. 



Type locality: "Near the Rocky Mountains.'' 



Range: Nevada and Arizona to Colorado and Texas. 



New Mexico: Cedar Hill; Chiz; Rosa; Kingston; Dog Spring; Dona Ana Mountains; 

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



2. NEMOSERIS Greene. 



Glabrous succulent winter annual mth pinnatifid alternate leaves and large heads 

 of wliite or pinkish flowers; involucre cylindric, of 7 to 15 narrow equal bracts and 

 numerous short calyculate outer ones; achenes terete, fusiform, few-ribbed, attenuate 

 to a slender beak; pappiis of 10 to 15 slender long-plumose white bristles. 



1. Nemoseris neomexicana (A. Gray) Greene, Pittonia 2: 193. 1891. 



Rafinesquia neomexicana A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 103. 1853. 



Type locality: "Stony hills along the Rio Grande near El Paso," Texas or Chi- 

 huahua. 



Range : Western Texas to Utah and southern California. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Glorieta; Nutt Flats; mesa near Las Cruces; Organ 

 Moimtains. Dry mesas and low hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 



3. TRAGOPOGON L. Salsify. 



Tall glabrous biennial or perennial with fleshy tap-root, alternate entire linear- 

 lanceolate long-acuminate leaves, and large long-pedunculate heads of purplish 

 flowers; involucre narrowly campanulate, the few bracts in a single series; achenes 

 linear, terete, slender-beaked; pappus a single series of plumose bristles connate at 

 the base. 



1. Tragopogon porrifolius L. Sp. PI. 789. 1753. 

 Type locality: Not stated. 

 New Mexico: Pecos; Santa Fe; Ramah; Mesilla. 

 The plant is frequently cultivated in gardens and often escapes. 



4. CYNTHIA Don. 



Nearly glabrous branched perennial with a rosette of basal leaves and a few sessile 

 alternate cauline ones; heads medium-sized, the flowers orange-colored; involucre 

 campanulate, of 9 to 15 lanceolate nerveless bracts; achenes cylindric, striate; pappua 

 of 10 to 15 minute linear scales and as many or more inner bristles, the outer scales 

 visible only under a strong lens. 



1. Cynthia viridis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 357. 1911. 



Type locality: Near Cowl?s, Pecos River National Forest, San Miguel County, 

 New Mexico. Type collected by Standley (no. 4418). 



