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Specimens examined : UNITED STATES. NEW MEXICO. Without local- 

 ity (Wright, 1787, 1851-2 -the type; Greene, 1880). Stem's Pass 

 (Tourney, 1895). Florita Mts. (Jones, Sept. 1903). Alamogordo (Rehn 

 & Viereck, Apr. 1902). Dog Mts. (Mearns, 300). Carrozalillo Mts. 

 (Mearns, 172). S. Luis Mts. (Mearns, 2485) . TEXAS. Western Texas to 

 El Paso (Wright, 630, 1849). ARIZONA. Near Clifton (Greene, 1880). 

 South of Flagstaff (Drake, 15118, 15118a). Pajarito Mts. (Schott, July 

 1855 ; Trelease, 363) . White Tail (Pilsbry, Nov. 1906) . Chiricahua Mts. 

 (Blumer, 1524, 1957, 1989, 1906). Sanoita Valley (Lemmon, 266). 

 Oracle (Hedgcock, 9685). Bowie (Jones, Sept. 1884). MEXICO. SONORA. 

 Guadalupe Canon (Merton, 2073; Mearns, 2529). S. Pedro to Fronteras 

 (Hartman, 944). 



Phoradendron tequilense n. sp. 



Not forked, the rather long and slender branches without cataphyls, 

 dioecious. Internodes rather short (1-2x5-10 mm.), closely papillate. 

 Leaves linear- or oblong-elliptical, acute or mucronate, sessile, 2x10-15 

 mm. Spikes mostly solitary, short (4-7 mm.), nearly smooth, 1- jointed 

 and 2-flowered when pistillate and capitately about 12-flowered, or with 

 2 such globose joints, when staminate: peduncle 3-5 mm. long. Fruit 

 straw-colored, subglobose, 3 mm. in diameter : sepals conically somewhat 

 parted. Plate 18. 



Western Sierra Madre region ( ? exclusively) on Thuya. The type 

 from Jalisco. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. Sierra de Tequila, Jal. (Pringie, 

 4434, 1893, the type). 



PHORADENDRON BOLLEANUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron Bolleanum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 



p. 134 m. 1868. 

 Viscum Bolleanum Seemann, Bot Herald, p. 295. pi. 63. 1852-7. 



Not forked, the rather short and stout branches without cataphyls, 

 dioecious. Internodes short (1-2x5-15 mm.), evanescently minutely and 

 sparingly short-hispid. Leaves somewhat spatulately linear-elliptical, 

 submucronately acute, sessile, 2-4x mostly 10-15 mm. Spikes often clus- 

 tered, very short (3 mm.), somewhat hispid, the mostly single joint 

 2-flowered when pistillate and about 4-flowered when staminate : peduncle 

 2 mm. long. Fruit straw-colored, subglobose, about 4 mm. in diameter : 

 sepals somewhat parted. Plate 19. 



Chihuahuan and Western Sierra Madre regions, usually on Juniperus, 

 one specimen on Arbutus. The type from Chihuahua. 



Specimens examined: UNITED STATES. TEXAS. Without locality 

 (Boundary Survey, 1235; Nealley, 1890). Cornudas Mts. (Havard, 83). 



