396 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
prostrate-assurgent, the central suberect, 1-2° long, whitish with 
a sublanate pubescence: leaves neither glandular nor dotted, 5- 
foliate, nearly glabrous above, the pubescence underneath and 
on the petioles resembling that on the stems; leaflets spatulate- 
linear, sessile, 1o-14™™ long; petioles about as long, often with 
a pair of diminutive trifoliate leaves in the axils; stipules fili- 
form: spike oblong, dense, 2-5 long, 1™ or less in diameter ; 
peduncles short (1-5°™): bracts scarcely equaling the calyx, 
obovate, abruptly acuminate, the dark purple tip obscured by the 
copious silvery lanate pubescence of the spike as a whole: calyx 
4-5™™ long, the teeth shorter than the tube: petals light purple; 
the limb of the standard broadly cordate, about 3™™ in diameter, 
exceeded by the filiform claw: ovary and base of style softly 
pubescent. 
Most nearly allied to P. tenuifolius Gray, from which it is at once to be 
distinguished by its very different habit, shorter broader leaflets, shorter 
peduncles and slenderer spikes, obovate short-acuminate purple tipped 
bracts, light purple petals, and the almost entire absence of glands or dots 
anywhere on the plant. _ 
The species is founded on no. 247 from Berwind, Colorado, by Jennte 
M. Archibald. 
Gentiana Moseleyi, n. sp.— Perennial from slender fleshy root- 
stocks, about 12" high, glabrous throughout, 1—2-flowered (pos- 
sibly more): leaves about 4 pairs, two of: which are basal and 
nearly verticillate, from narrowly oblanceolate and petioled 
below to broadly linear and sessile above, 2—-3°™ long: the ter- 
minal flower subtended by a pair of foliar linear-lanceolate bracts 
often nearly as long as the calyx; additional flowers (if any) 
axillary in the uppermost leaves and smaller: calyx green with 
purple streaks, about 15™™ long; the lobes triangular-lanceolate, 
equaling or exceeding the tube: corolla dark blue, about 25"” 
long; the lobes oblong, obtuse, exceeding the tube (15™™ long); 
5-7™™" broad, conspicuously long setaceous-lacerate on the sides 
and often nearly to the summit which is,obscurely dentate ; the 
tube arachnoid woolly within especially toward the base: fila- 
ments stout, flattened, equaling the tube: stipe half as long as 
the elliptic-oblong capsule: style almost wanting. 
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